Joe Barresi on Rock Vocals

He tries different mics for different singers. He never knows prior to the session which he should use.

He then compresses the vocal on the way in, sometimes using an LA-2A, but more often than not a Urei 1176 peak limiter.




For the Queens of the Stone Age, he used different mics on [blank] for different songs.

For pristine vocals he used the Brauner VM1.

And for other tracks he used the Neumann M149, Shure KSM44, BLUE Ball or even the Shure SM57.

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