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I was wondering how I would go about recording vocals that sound super gainy
Something along the lines of John Dwyer's vocals in Coachwhips
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4dAEDNdXfic[/youtube]
A good example of what I'm kinda lookin for is when he says "extinguish me" around 34 seconds into the song.

What's the best way to go about this? Should I just turn up the gain on my audio interface? Should I run the mic through a dirt pedal? etc?

tiny cranked amp with a harmonica mic?

Get a Shure SM57 microphone. One thing I found kinda cool was Guitar Rig 5 (or whatever number you can get) Has cool vocal effects. I use it on guitar for bands that don't have pedals but want dist guitars. I found they have some cool modeling amps and other shit that can be thrown on vocals. The post above it a great idea too. If you don't have a harmonica mic, just use what you have (Hopefully a Shure SM57 - everyone who records should have one of these in their mic locker). I have some other things written down in my recording note book and when I have time I'll look into it, because I have a few pages on vocal tech shit.

Sounds like proximity effect plus a telephone-type filter, then a little gain (amp, preamp, console overloaded).

Hard to tell from a lo-fi YT clip though.

AstralFeedbackM wrote:I use it on guitar for bands that don't have pedals but want dist guitars.

Does not compute.

You can get a similar sound singing through the pickups on a guitar. Seriously. Try it with a high-gain amp or pedal.

Famously used to get the intro to Territorial Pissings:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JCGvONbVCa0[/youtube]

tuj wrote:You can get a similar sound singing through the pickups on a guitar. Seriously. Try it with a high-gain amp or pedal.

Usually only works well with microphonic pickups. Melt a shitload of wax off the pickups and you're good to go. Be warned they will feedback like a motherfucker with the wax removed. Works for me but I love feedback.

In the OP it sounds like a mic into a shitty guitar amp. You could also try a green bullet and overdrive it with a mixing board.

I ran vocals through a Soda Meiser once and it sounded pretty sweet

kbithecrowing wrote:I ran vocals through a Soda Meiser once and it sounded pretty sweet

The best vocal track I ever recorded was with a soda meiser.

Mic into solid state practice amp all day long.

I've also sung into a walkie-talkie with the receiving walkie-talkie at the mic. They had those Morse code beeper things, so I beeped them a little for extra flavor.

If you want to do it totally in box, I'd say compress the fuck out of em and run them through some kind of distortion effect that lets you adjust the wet-dry mix. Then LPF.

Shure 520DX (Green Bullet) + Fulltone OCD Pedal or Boss HM-2 (Distortion all the way down)

Both sound great.

anybody try a boss odb-3 on vocals?

we've used a TAFM a bunch along w/ a muza reverb/delay, (which sounds super great) but sometimes at live show volume, we get this constant high pitched feedback (not cool), which i'm guessing is prob the TAFM.