One of Italy’s most prominent live acts, Giorgia Angiuli is at the forefront of the melodic techno scene with one of the most recognizable voices around. Constantly looking for new ways of expression, her playful relationship with how she approaches music production is key to her ever-fresh sound. With releases on an array of respected underground labels, including her newly christened UNITED label, she now lands on Tragedie with a collaboration with label owners Teenage Mutants.
To celebrate the release of ‘What We Think’, her collaboration with Teenage Mutants, Giorgia Angiuli shares 5 tips she applies when recording and processing her voice.
‘Hello, my name is Giorgia Angiuli, I am an Italian producer and live act performer and I use my voice almost in all my productions’.
1. Main Vocal Microphones
In the studio, I record it with a Neumann TLM 103 and a preamp by warm audio, the WA73EQ. I love these gears! During my live performances, I sing with a Shure sm58 and a TC HELICON PERFORM V.
2. Ableton
In-studio I record my voice on Ableton Live, without auto warp. I use many Ableton plugins to process it: for example native EQs (I usually do a cut around 250 Hz), the Ableton Ballad Reverb, a compressor, a saturator, Multiband Dynamics, and a Bass Punch – Glue compressor.
3. Fun and layers
I use to record always a minimum of two layers of vocals and very often I pitch the second vocal at minus 5 semitones. To fix the tune I like the Waves Tune and to give more identity to my vocals I use some more creative plugins, for example, The Ovox. You will find many options on this tool and you could use your voice as a synthesizer. It is really funny! In the last months, I also started to like autotune as an expressive tool. I would recommend you this free VST for max for live: BEAT LAB AUTOTUNA.
4. Cutting low frequencies
I like to add, on RETURN, the Valhalla room large chamber with minimum 5s decay and 70 depth and the delay eternity from Arturia. Cutting always the low frequencies (around 90 Hz).
5. Creativity
Recording vocals for electronic music, in my opinion, it is one of the most complicated things, because there are no specific rules it is all about your creativity and you need to create your own style.
Teenage Mutants & Giorgia Angiuli’s ‘What We Think’ is now available via Tragedie. Grab your copy here.
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