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no, and that's exactly what i should do -ask for examples.

i've got some female vocals that are great, spot on double track. if i could sing like that i'd slap a small amount of plate (or digital approximation) on the vocals and call it a day, but the band wants a 'dreamy' vocal effect. this is totally out of the box. i've got a yamaha spx90 and an alesis microverb, plus stomp boxes. reverb and some random stereo phase thing? i got a track to spare, i could flip the tape and do backwards reverb. i still feel like i'm blanking on 'dreamy'.

Do they have an "Eddie Van Halen's Sound On Diver Down" example that you could aim for? Has that sort of a discussion been had?

If you have a amp with reverb you could re amp the vocal into some pedals and amp reverb and re-record. Don't forget pre delay.

Be creative old school style.If you have a space that is reverberant (you may be able to use your tracking room or a hallway, bathroom near your board) you could route to a aux fader use a pre delay on the alysis. This is a short delay which moves the background delay behind the actual vocal which gives the vocal some clarity over the delay. run the out to a amp or monitor speaker (any old speaker will do in a pinch even self powered computer speakers (but eq has less effect on the feed to super lofi speakers but they have their charm) in the reverbing space (like a bathroom) experiment with mike placement. If that was not enough (and it could well be) you can feed that into the spx-90 symphonic or one of the big chorus delay settings add repeats for dreamyness for more space on another channel. Put it on the octave down for the devil effect when previewing for the singer just for yucks.If that is not enough use a stomp box on the mike feed from the reverb room delay and/or chorus in the line with the mike feed (I usually use a cheap dynamic mike in the reverb room for this with a 1/2 plug) from the reverberant room. Though you could use it differently using your board. If you have something like a memory man or cool stomps you can add them in but be mindful on hiss gain issues.As was said if you want floaty tones a low set chorus or phaser is nice in the feeds because it gives some slow movement to the sound. Use the eqs to take out some of the bass and some of the treble in the feed. The eq settings are also important as a female vocal may have to much edge pushing the reverb if you don't pre process the feed tone. Running the feeds to separate channels you can run this stuff and mix them together until you get the juce.https://enmoreaudio.com/two-ways-to-pla ... al-reverb/https://isaacwebb.wordpress.com/2015/12 ... or-reverb/Put in length of ceramic pipe or find a nearby storm drain just set up a reverb room (maybe add a record light in case someone is using the bathroom). I was able to use a abandoned elevator shaft in my last place the luxury and sound was huge. Went to a old diy studio once that had ceramic pipe run in the back yard set up with a feed.Then you can just feed to it. Long term You could also build a plate reverb as well and hang it in the goodwill bought cupboard.http://ionosonderec.blogspot.com/2013/0 ... everb.html

shallow, mid-speed chorus

richardsalino wrote:Reverse Gate on the SPX90 with the parameters maxed. Play around with it until it gets weird.Long verb on the Alesis into the SPX90 set to Symphonic or Pitch Change C?Combo of the above in parallel?When I think dreamy I think modulation, longer verbs and delays, and high-end. Bright, wispy verbs and swimmy chorus. Modulating delays. If you have a stomp box that'll do some of that stuff, use that.Depends heavily on what else is going on in the track. It's easy to create a mud-fest.Hey, my man!You guys, Richard's here! Welcome back to the PRF!!

Big John wrote:Then you can just feed to it. Long term You could also build a plate reverb as well and hang it in the goodwill bought cupboard.http://ionosonderec.blogspot.com/2013/0 ... everb.htmlOh man, this. I am no help. All of Big John's suggestions are great though. Keep the pre-delay short.

Here's an all analog trick I typed up in a past post...Justin Foley a while ago wrote:Record a track of something - we'll say it's vocals. Stop tape at the end of the recording. Flip the tape over by swapping the reels (or turning over your 4 track cassette). Playback while reamping the track and miking the sound in the room, recording onto an empty track. (You could delay sending this signal to tape or not.) Stop at the end (really the beginning) of the recording and flip the tape back over. The resulting sound, recorded while it was playing backwards, will be that creepy backward sound that gets played in movies when someone hears a ghost talking to them in a hallucination or some shit. You could make it sound extra weird by doing it at double speed, effectively lengthening the pre-reverb sound (if that makes any sense).It's all post-production, so as long as you've got an extra track or two to spare you can try it.= Justin

Overdub some snoring?