Hello, I've been making industrial/EBM music for a long time, but whenever I go to do a live show I tend to have problems with mic feedbacks and voice effects.
I've been using Reaper with VSTs for vocals with good results on headphones, but I never get a good result using plugins + Reaper live, I'm not a professional mixer.
This year I bought a Boss SE70 pedalboard, which is very versatile for using on vocals, but I would still like to try using plugins, due to the variety and practicality of automation.
I would like a similar effect to Wumpscut and Skinny Puppy's vocals.
I have a show scheduled for Saturday, December 13th and I would like to ask the community a huge favor.
I really need an effective vocal chain that has EQ+Saturation+Compressor and some crispy(metalic) distortion, in addition to Chorus + Delay + reverb (board or room). I would like the Delay and Reverb to be in sends to control them independently, and I don't know if it would be the case to put the distortion in parallel too?
Is my first post here and, well, sorry for the wall of text and rusty english, in short, I need some effect chains for vocals with distortion and crispy(metalic) satutarion, with a little chorus/doubler to give a unison/detuned effect and a little reverb and delay in parallel. I use reaper, and it can be a preset with separate effects or even using a plugin like Mix Box from IK Multimidia or Xvox Pro from Nuro Audio.

I have most of the plugins available from R2R, VR and other crackers. In addition to waves packages, kilohertz etc.
Thanks in advance for any help.
PS: I'll leave some songs as an example of the vocals I'm looking for.

Explanation videos that I can't understand all procedure:

This one on 9:08 is a nice exemple.

another nice exemple

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I will leave here some links with some live gigs from my band and especially the first one that shows the live feedbacks issues

And here is a link from a live gig recorded in 1994 I was using a pedal board digitech rp 300

 

I think Ben Baptie's approach to mixing Julian Casablancas vocal could be a good starting point

 

Many of these "vocal chain" multi-fx plugins like Nuro do not have anything over going with something more " Studio Staples".

Eq - Fabfilter Pro-Q4. Saturation - Soundtoys Decapitator and Fabfilter Saturn. Compressor - Fabfilter Pro-C2. Multiband compressor- Fabfilter Pro-Mb. Clipper - Kazrog K-Clip3. You do not want a lot of compression. Fabfilter Pro-DS is more than enough if you need a de-esser.

Then you can branch out into all of the more boutique distortion plugins or guitar stuff like Amplitube ToneX, etc. Most of the nastiest portions of Ogre's vocals were just him destroying his own vocal cords. If you are shooting for more the Too Dark Park era kind of sound. Eventide H3000 would be a good add. The entire Eventide Bundle would be even better .

A pitch shifter I like is Zplane Elastique 2. It's not an auto-tuner. You just have to unlock timbre from pitch in the bottom left corner (Lock Icon). Get it on sister site.

Moogerfoogers bundle would be another good add. Maybe my favorite one. The MF-109S Saturator and MF-102S RingMod are both good. A little LFO and modulated growling is simple.

The Goodhertz Bundle 3 from R2R would be well worth your time. They can be abused far beyond what their plugin names suggest. Most have a 3 dot icon on them that expands the right side, where is generally where all the stuff you can misuse is.

Here's a ridiculous distortion for free: https://www.newfangledaudio.com/obliterate

Nasty saturation free plugin. be careful with it: https://codalabs.io/szechuan/

 

Last edited: Dec 12, 2025 at 2:25 AM

no particular reason why i mention it in this thread, but you're one of the best posters on this forum and i appreciate the time you take to give thoughtful and thorough answers. can we bang out a few more clones, please?