If you're looking for an extremely aggressive vocal sound, you can't go wrong here. Although I may have an entire stable of compressors, tube saturators and EQ plugins to call up-I have to say it's nice to bring up a channel strip specifically geared towards working with one type of signal. I'm a fan of the simplicity that Waves offers with its Signature Series plugins. There is a compressor, a de-esser, discrete input and output levels, specifically tuned EQ choices, (we'll get to that in a minute), and tube/solid state preamp saturation. Everything you need to work with vocals is here. The Waves Signature Series essentially puts a lot of different processors all into one interface, allowing the user to re-create the signal chain of various famous producers and recording engineers. The crazy thing is, it all truly works together to get you a really 'grungy' vocal sound within seconds. The compressor can absolutely squeeze the heck out of things, and the filters will decimate frequency information from a vocal signal.
Butch Vig Vocals is unapologetically aggressive in its processing power. With a plugin like BVV, you're going to want to tweak it sitting in the whole mix. I'm often surprised by how many producers I work with will spend countless hours tweaking a vocal sound isolated, then put the vocal in the mix and be surprised that they have to start all over again. This should go without saying, but even I need to remind myself occasionally: try to craft your vocal sound in the mix. I slapped it on a vocal track and here's what I found out. Continuing their trend of giving you a 'producer in a plugin', Waves has created the Butch Vig Vocals offering in their signature artist series. His mixes tend to have vocals sitting right out front, unapologetically in your face. Butch Vig helped to marshal in the entire concept of 'distorted vocals on purpose' when working with legendary bands such as Nirvana, Smashing Pumpkins, and Garbage.
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