How to get THAT Sound Ep. 2: Dave Grohl, Foo Fighters

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Chris Liepe

Chris Liepe

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In this second episode of "How To Get THAT Sound", I compare and contrast my performance of Foo Fighter's "Everlong" with Dave Grohl's and demonstrate and discuss:
Vocal Doubling Techniques
Layering & Mixing
Creative Use Of Distortion
Microphone Technique
Using Reverbs & Delays
Singing Techniques
You'll have a great handle on how to get Dave's signature vocal sound after diving into this video!
0:00 - Demonstration & Thanks
0:41 - Go Deeper!
1:21 - Vocal Doubling
6:14 - Signal & Effects Chain
8:18 - Reverbs & Delays
11:52 - The Actual Singing Techniques

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@chrisliepe
@chrisliepe Жыл бұрын
Free Voice Lessons: chrisliepe.com/free-your-voice/ My Website: chrisliepe.com Distortion & Aggressive Vocals Course: www.mymusicalvoice.com/p/the-aggressive-vocalist-s-master-plan-of-attack
@RudolfHorvath
@RudolfHorvath Жыл бұрын
It's incredible how consistent Dave's rhythmic phrasing is when doubling his vocals. If it wasn't for the small differencies, one would believe it was simply copied.
@Ekkie101
@Ekkie101 Жыл бұрын
You're right. Keeping that rhythmic (and pitch) consistency is key to effective doubling and tripling and more.
@versaillestheband5178
@versaillestheband5178 Жыл бұрын
he’s got the timing of a drummer applying to his vocals, sooo useful
@JUNKO____
@JUNKO____ Жыл бұрын
Compression is like paint. The goal is to make something a different color. You can do that by just adding all the paint needed at once to change it's color and it's a muddy (but STILL technically painted) mess or you can use the same amount of paint in multiple thin coats to change it's color AND preserve the character/detail of what you're applying it to. Or something like that.
@madhatter8508
@madhatter8508 Жыл бұрын
Something I learned just recently is to turn the output down on my compressor plugins to match the volume before compression. It's really helped me decide if the compressor is really making the track better, or just louder.
@Producelikeapro
@Producelikeapro Жыл бұрын
This was such a wonderful video to make! I really appreciate your wonderful vocal!
@chrisliepe
@chrisliepe Жыл бұрын
Thanks Warren!
@Producelikeapro
@Producelikeapro Жыл бұрын
@@chrisliepe you're the man!
@antl7219
@antl7219 Жыл бұрын
This is exactly the type of video I've been looking for during 15 years of recording my vocals ! Please more ! (With Chester, Chris, Myles, Freddie, James, etc. etc.)
@chrisliepe
@chrisliepe Жыл бұрын
Thank you Ant! Keep up the amazing work!
@VectressWasHere
@VectressWasHere Жыл бұрын
The reverb handoff is such a smart way of handling vocals without mudding things up in the mix
@madhatter8508
@madhatter8508 Жыл бұрын
I listened to an early version of Tripping on A Hole by STP and Scott didn't double his vocals in the beginning. I couldn't believe how different it sounded to the final version on the record because until recently when I listened to songs like that I didn't listen critically. But now that you've pointed out the subtle doubling in this song, it made me think more about STP and how Scott Weiland used doubling as well.
@justin_payne
@justin_payne Жыл бұрын
I love the new series! Dave is one of my all-time favorite singers, so I'll definitely be coming back to this video regularly. Would you consider doing an episode about Adam Gontier? I love your video on his technique, but the production is so important to his sound. Thanks for the content, Chris!
@chrisliepe
@chrisliepe Жыл бұрын
Great idea!
@zacreinke5295
@zacreinke5295 Жыл бұрын
You're killin it with these videos Chris. Incredible work. Thank you 🙌🏻
@chrisliepe
@chrisliepe Жыл бұрын
Glad you like them!
@SufiSakib
@SufiSakib Жыл бұрын
Loving the series ❤️
@ieatnails
@ieatnails Жыл бұрын
u have literally taught me so much on how to use my voice i actually learned how to sing man in the box with proper the compression and helped me get way higher notes despite having a pretty deep voice THANK U CHRIS 🙌🙌🙌🤍🤍🤍 👑 👑
@chrisliepe
@chrisliepe Жыл бұрын
You’re so welcome!
@jamiegunn
@jamiegunn Жыл бұрын
Very cool! Great insight in production aspects, along with the vocal approach.
@1800Nausea
@1800Nausea Жыл бұрын
Great cover! I love your voice on this. Really really cool! Good job, Chris!
@sancarlitos1125
@sancarlitos1125 Жыл бұрын
AWESOME VIDEO!! Thanks for all the tips to unleash our voice!
@ainsleystones4600
@ainsleystones4600 Жыл бұрын
All really helpful Chris. Many thanks indeed. :)
@johnnyronca3939
@johnnyronca3939 Жыл бұрын
This was so cool on one of my favorite bands and favorite songs of all time! Thank you for creating this!
@barrycoulter6951
@barrycoulter6951 26 күн бұрын
Nice! Thx for the info…!
@embersong
@embersong Жыл бұрын
I love your contents🥰
@sylphus
@sylphus Жыл бұрын
Thanks a lot Chris for all the efforts and research you put in your videos. You clearly are the best I know concerning singing and mixing videos. Keep it up ! You already made me go far.
@fasgamboa
@fasgamboa Жыл бұрын
these are the BEST videos!
@chrisliepe
@chrisliepe Жыл бұрын
Glad you like them!
@livinrock9007
@livinrock9007 Жыл бұрын
Loved the demo on mixing the reverbs . Just joined your singing course ! Love this video. Absolutely dig the way you approach your video. Man just got to say... I'm a fan of what you doing. liked, subbed and all the rest. I'm glad I found your channel ! Have a fantastic day !
@chrisliepe
@chrisliepe Жыл бұрын
Awesome! Welcome to the course too :) Glad to be working with you!!
@regnek
@regnek Жыл бұрын
Amazing stuff as usual. Love the little dude's cameo at 3:40 😆 Also, I just joined this most recent cohort of Discover Your Voice students and I'm LOVING it. I've done SLS stuff before, but genuinely, your course is exactly what I've needed. So thank you!
@chrisliepe
@chrisliepe Жыл бұрын
That's awesome Kevin! Glad Discover Your Voice is meeting you right you're at! And hehe... you caught my son's peek :) ... I didn't even see it until I went to edit the video haha.
@rodrigocarneiro2100
@rodrigocarneiro2100 Жыл бұрын
Amazing!
@chrisliepe
@chrisliepe Жыл бұрын
Thank you! Cheers!
@tiky2675
@tiky2675 Жыл бұрын
Yay 🥳... Dave was the first Rock singer I listened to when I was growing up in 8th grade. The first song I heard was The Pretender and I remembered knowing nothing about guitar and spending countless hours learning that song just by ear. It was the first song I ever learned on guitar.
@_-_-_-Prof.BoskoBiathi-_-_-_
@_-_-_-Prof.BoskoBiathi-_-_-_ Жыл бұрын
What the,5:08.☝️☝️☝️...can i feel in here a bit anger,..deep inside anguish,..is it going to bedeath growling ,.??!!!👊👊😂👏👏🤔🤔 And at the end,.chris his charming laughing,..luv it,.
@livi2197
@livi2197 Жыл бұрын
As always great. I was just wondering how to layer my vocals, so they take up more space.
@senseiofsong
@senseiofsong Жыл бұрын
I feel like every time I listen to one of your videos, it either enforces something I stumbled upon on my own, or introduces some new idea. Thanks for breaking stuff down.
@Alanoo
@Alanoo Жыл бұрын
Yo I appreciate these alot, my recordings/performances are pretty good, I can make guitars sound really good, but when it comes to vocals it always seems out of place... so these videos help alot, thanks man
@chrisliepe
@chrisliepe Жыл бұрын
You're so welcome! Thanks for watching and digging in!
@bellasoda
@bellasoda Жыл бұрын
Thank you for this video! This kind of vocal production techniques are what I find so hard to find good references on. More like this please! 🙏 Can you do Ghost next?
@miguelmikemigs
@miguelmikemigs Жыл бұрын
man, i never noticed in the record that dave practically maxed out his voice in the chorus.
@chrisliepe
@chrisliepe Жыл бұрын
Right?!? Fun to hear this way!
@1verzhn
@1verzhn Жыл бұрын
I love that you use scheps omni. Im gonna try the double dry😎
@johndickie5436
@johndickie5436 Жыл бұрын
Again. Thank you Chris for this, as an aspiring vocalist and producer, Videos like this are pure GOLD. I would love to see some videos on some "More " produced voices.... ie; Black Keys??
@chrisliepe
@chrisliepe Жыл бұрын
Great idea!
@LichtenfelsAndre
@LichtenfelsAndre Жыл бұрын
Klasse, Chris. Beste Grüße aus Deutschland 👋
@jessejarzabski5076
@jessejarzabski5076 Жыл бұрын
Man nice work!!!!!.......I never knew how much information can be articulated and dissected and ultimately masterfully communicated thru ur ability to use language to describes the undescribable,......the transcendent nature of music and how ,like a drug, it distracts us from our own mortality and imbues us with it's romantic cultural idealogies and helps us as individuals find beauty in The MOMENT....TO LIVE AND ENJOY LIFE, NOW.........TO BE TRULY PRESENT....is to be truly alive.........also.......I REALLY LIKED your version for your vocal aptitude and raw insight and how you colored the vocals with your own little style,....TO WHICH MY EARS COULD DISCERN A SLIGHT VIBRATO ATTENUATED VERY SUBTLEY,....YET ITS ELUSIVE AND DOESNT COME off as to poppy or contrived.........LIKE Dave u have a natural raspy and vulnerable TAMBER that what it lacks in technique it makes up for with an emotionally dynamic honest intent,.....that truly cuts straight thru to the soul and bypasses all other pretenses,...cuz it sees in rock music, a voice w too much vibrato combined with mathamatical precision makes for a artificial type sound that is at odds w the core views of Rick which at it's basic is and embraces rawness, minimalist, improvisational, random type of.music and your vibrato compliments this style of music since it sounds more random and.more natural vibrato that you added in ....then if the magic is present, if u can attain a young person's undivided attention and captivate them with a epic performance within this modern, attention divided , ADHD nation of short attention spans.........then u have truly achieved a miraculous phenomenon !!!!.....lol......
@ObscurelyTitled
@ObscurelyTitled Жыл бұрын
great take down
@chrisliepe
@chrisliepe Жыл бұрын
Thanks!
@zacharysmithingell5460
@zacharysmithingell5460 Жыл бұрын
Hey Chris, I've been loving all the multi track videos, especially with MJ. Gotta say, this video is INCREDIBLY helpful! I absolutely love this, and would really like to hear some more. How about something with Michael Buble and that amazing warm vocal sound he gets on Feelin' Good for example? Or Corey Taylor on the first stone sour record, the track Take a Number -- the delay in the verses is amazing, would love to see you decompose that. Another incredible one would be Matt Holt's sound on the nothingface record skeletons. Maybe machination? Anyway, thanks Chris, this is a brilliant video!
@whiplash415
@whiplash415 Жыл бұрын
Could you do a vocal analysis of Billy Corgan from Smashing Pumpkins
@_-_-_-Prof.BoskoBiathi-_-_-_
@_-_-_-Prof.BoskoBiathi-_-_-_ Жыл бұрын
Yeah,.would be cool,..or page hamilton,..helmet,.in the meantime
@Davespavid
@Davespavid Жыл бұрын
It seems so obvious now but using two separate reverbs for the short and long is an awesome idea that I had never thought of! One of my favorite mix engineers for modern heavy drums is Nolly, and he likes using a specific verb plugin on the snare that "explodes" from narrow to wide throughout the verb tail. I've wanted to get that sound but I don't want to spend the cash on that specific plugin, but now I'm gonna try using this technique with different widths on the verbs to maybe get a similar effect!
@chrisliepe
@chrisliepe Жыл бұрын
YES!! Nolly is amazing!
@_-_-_-Prof.BoskoBiathi-_-_-_
@_-_-_-Prof.BoskoBiathi-_-_-_ Жыл бұрын
Hey chris,..awesome video,.as always,.really,.exactly my taste,.go on like that,... Maybe u can make a video of vocaling of band helmet,.song in the meantime,..page hamilton,.fabulous,..helmet is one of the big old ones,..regards
@chrisliepe
@chrisliepe Жыл бұрын
Great suggestion!
@Ekkie101
@Ekkie101 Жыл бұрын
Lots of great tips here. Thanks Chris.
@chrisliepe
@chrisliepe Жыл бұрын
You bet!
@leylaborysova9598
@leylaborysova9598 Жыл бұрын
Thanks that helped a lot! Would you consider doing the same with the pixies?
@kdakan
@kdakan Жыл бұрын
That would not be possible with the Pixies' first two albums because there is minimal studio post processing on those albums.
@user-fb8pv1ob8n
@user-fb8pv1ob8n 5 ай бұрын
Thank you for a great video. Question. Should I put my doubles left and right or should I leave them in centre?
@kikiphallin
@kikiphallin Жыл бұрын
The multiple takes is also kind off most of what gives chino moreno's clean vocals it's unique sound. He's obviously amazing and has its own style but yeah.
@smiletut
@smiletut Жыл бұрын
Suggestion/question. My very first song I ever wrote has a technique my dad would call “going psycho” where you move from a very slow melodic pace to a very heavy rock pace out of nowhere, (this is not the majority of the ballad, only a part of the bridge) what are ways to go about that? A fair example would be reds death of me where he repeats “I will not forget this I cannot forget this” increasingly louder, but it goes from the first one and jumps to the last one.
@smiletut
@smiletut Жыл бұрын
FYI, there are most likely are better examples, but that was the first off my head. And the difference is the first part has a kind of lulaby tone to it, then the last goes deep into the rock side.
@bunmei06
@bunmei06 Жыл бұрын
Can you please also do Anthony Green from Saosin/Circa Survive??😊
@DarioMarchetti
@DarioMarchetti Жыл бұрын
Hey Chris, could you do one of these videos on Mike Patton? Because, you know, you can never have too much Mike Patton.
@murilooliveira9175
@murilooliveira9175 Жыл бұрын
please talk about corey taylor subliminal verses gritty and raspy and more about layne staley
@karenbultman6995
@karenbultman6995 Жыл бұрын
Bands back in the olden days (70’s) didn’t have all this fancy stuff.
@MrArinji
@MrArinji Жыл бұрын
And yet they were still doubling there vocals like 90 percent of the time and they totally had access to hardware compressors and reverb's and what not. The Beatles themselves helped pioneer many of these things. The tech has gotten more powerful but the techniques have been in use for at least 50 or 60 years.
@craigusselman546
@craigusselman546 Жыл бұрын
Bands have been doubling vocals since the 1960s it was more basic but doubling was done tond in the 1970s.
@sonsofsofa2841
@sonsofsofa2841 Жыл бұрын
the first "breathe out" sounds like its got a whisper track in it
@chrisliepe
@chrisliepe Жыл бұрын
It totally might! But you can get similar with the raspy compression I talk about too :)
@lyricvideos-musicwithlyric4015
@lyricvideos-musicwithlyric4015 Жыл бұрын
Great video Chris. QUESTION: I understand as a vocal coach you are in high demand. Do you know any coaches or students of yours that do one on one coaching that teaches the same methods as you. Specifically, they teach the same breathing technique as you including the act of using your poop muscles, using your false cords, using compression to manage air and whatever is involved to sing that first note with a good tone while maintaining it throughout the song. If you do know some, can you provide their website and/or business contact information. I tried using some vocal coaches via skype, but one area that they seem to really part from your teach is how they interrupt compression. When I ask about using false vocal cords their eyes turn red.
@chrisliepe
@chrisliepe Жыл бұрын
Check out one of my co instructors Lukas Magyar. You can find his private lessons at mymusicalvoice.com you should also look into joining sing together 365 where I can work with you face to face up to weekly! :)
@thewalkthroughmusic
@thewalkthroughmusic Жыл бұрын
Can you please do how to sing like Dallas Green from Alexisonfire
@creeksiderockmusic
@creeksiderockmusic Жыл бұрын
Chris would you be interested in taking my vocal lead stem for one our original new songs and giving the effect you think is needed? I dont have mixing software. I have a tascam sd 2488 that is limited.
@chrisliepe
@chrisliepe Жыл бұрын
Yes! Send me a message through my website Chrisliepe.com
@strangelet4588
@strangelet4588 Жыл бұрын
Fantastic breakdown, Chris. Gonna give it a try. Do you use an outboard compressor on vocals or is it all in the box?
@chrisliepe
@chrisliepe Жыл бұрын
outboard usually... Manly Core Reference channel strip
@strangelet4588
@strangelet4588 Жыл бұрын
@@chrisliepe ooo! Have a spare to share? ;) You use it to mainly take spikes off?
@NeXusZT
@NeXusZT Жыл бұрын
I'm not sure if I missed it but, are the doubles hard panned LR or are they adjusted differently? Edit: I just noticed the knobs on the doubles they look like %30ish?
@chrisliepe
@chrisliepe Жыл бұрын
ya, not hard left and right for these... you don't want them to sound too "gang-like" You want them to sound like one voice sort of... which is also why I did the verbs the way I did them.
@aronvanalstine
@aronvanalstine Жыл бұрын
I’m assuming you tripled instead of doubled to keep the stereo image even left and right?
@chrisliepe
@chrisliepe Жыл бұрын
Yep!
@madsveslelia
@madsveslelia 6 ай бұрын
are you treating/mixing the doubles the same way you mix the lead? EQ, compression and so on
@chrisliepe
@chrisliepe 6 ай бұрын
No, they are different in lots of ways... too much to put into one video though :)
@madsveslelia
@madsveslelia 6 ай бұрын
@@chrisliepe would love a video on it man🙏🏻
@anorexorcist1991
@anorexorcist1991 Жыл бұрын
Can you do video on Courtney Love’s vocals?
@DoctorPhilGud
@DoctorPhilGud Жыл бұрын
Could i pull this off in audacity? Or better yet with a pedal so i dont have to spend hours editing just to practice lol
@chrisliepe
@chrisliepe Жыл бұрын
yep!
@matthewsanders1904
@matthewsanders1904 5 ай бұрын
Where did you get the stems for this song?
@chrisliepe
@chrisliepe 5 ай бұрын
Googled it
@MrGuitarDemo
@MrGuitarDemo Жыл бұрын
You hear that little flip thing he does at the end of 'when I sing along with you' the yoooUUU thing. I hear that on a LOT of pro singers. What's that called, what causes it? It doesn't come naturally to me even if I hit their notes
@sonsofsofa2841
@sonsofsofa2841 Жыл бұрын
the first verse of dave really sounds like hes not really pushing much at all ?
@oh_look_bananas
@oh_look_bananas 7 ай бұрын
Close enough.
@beehype46and2
@beehype46and2 Жыл бұрын
Comment for da algorithm Steak count: 153
@chrisliepe
@chrisliepe Жыл бұрын
:)
@peytonparabdeen2413
@peytonparabdeen2413 Жыл бұрын
Someone grew a beard
@kdakan
@kdakan Жыл бұрын
But if you're doubling to create textures, you will not be able to reproduce that texture live. I wouldn't want to do that.
@chrisliepe
@chrisliepe Жыл бұрын
Lots of great vocalists and artists from John Lennon to Dave Grohl to Chris Cornell and brendon urie understand that studio and live are distinctly different platforms for expression. It’s not at all uncommon for the studio performances to be doubled, in a higher key and enhanced with effects you don’t hear live. Putting pressure to replicate a studio performance for your live performance is, in this day and age especially, both not necessary and will cause expectations you can’t rise to. Treat them as different works of art and different forms of expression like the pros do!
@kdakan
@kdakan Жыл бұрын
@@chrisliepe Thanks Chris for your elaborate explanation. But my point is, reverb, delay and even compression can be missing or different in different venues and there is no expectation to match these to the studio recording. But the vocal texture itself, like grit, nasality, etc. is the timbre itself and I would want to hear something close to what I hear on the album in a live situation. I still think it is an overstretch to double wildly different vocal textures. I'm sure Dave Grohl can get the texture right live because it is his natural voice. Please correct me if I'm mistaken in this manner. This would alienate me from the vocalist. This is why I like the Steve Albini way of recording a band live in the studio with minimal post processing. What you heqr is what you get. It sounds real and intimate.
@chrisliepe
@chrisliepe Жыл бұрын
@@kdakan I've seen him live several times, and he sounds good, but it IS very different from the studio recordings. In interviews, Dave is the first to say that he doesn't care for the sound of his voice in the studio so he doubles it to get extra texture. Kurt Cobain did the same thing. Even Steve Albini has been known to embrace vocal doubling and layering of the same vocalist even though it can't be replicated live. Same with some of the best Beatles recordings! :)
@kdakan
@kdakan Жыл бұрын
@@chrisliepe I wasn't saying double tracking vocals is bad, I meant it is not good to create a completely different texture from doubling which you cannot recreate live. Btw, Steve Albini refused to double track Kurt's vocals on the album In Utero, wiki article says, and there is a reference to that quote. The Albini version is a special edition that was only available after several decades, the record label insisted recording additional vocals and remixing on the songs that ended up as singles on the album.
@chrisliepe
@chrisliepe Жыл бұрын
@@kdakan I just saw My Chemical Romance live about about a week ago. Gerard sounded completely different than he does on the records, but he sounded GREAT! On the records, he doubles, even sings in higher keys than he performs many of the songs live. And they are both very different.. And they are both GREAT! Different art forms! I love both. I genuinely enjoy hearing my favorite vocalists live without all the production, and I really nerd out on what kind of creativity is brought out on the production side.
@nikitag8690
@nikitag8690 Жыл бұрын
This is cool but live Dave Grohl stil Dave Grohl. So this techniques is like spices, but not the dish itself %)
@999nero
@999nero Жыл бұрын
Rest in peace Taylor Hawkins❤️
@MrWalrusdick
@MrWalrusdick Жыл бұрын
3:40 :))
@chrisliepe
@chrisliepe Жыл бұрын
Easter Egg :)
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