Distorted Hardstyle Lead Vocals

It all depends on your project, so don't render it. Just keep it there. Once you've made a pattern, you might see the frequencies clash with your mid intro kick.

Boost the mid frequencies before your distortion. Then take a compressor and glue it down a little bit. I put it around 12, 15. It just gets a little bit more squashed together. Then I add OTT to get it tighter. What I recommend is adding a vocal doubler, because it creates a little bit of unison. You don't want it to be too much.

What usually happens is you have a build-up going and the vocal loops a certain part. "I wanna, I wanna" stops there, then it takes the full vocal, "I wanna go home", and then it's boom boom boom boom.

The first method is just to take a vocal and find a loop that works in your song. I found this vocal in Galactic Hardstyle Vocals Vol. 1. It says "free fall all the time" and ends on a pretty nice note, so I loop "time time time". Then get it into the right key.

There's an issue, it's too low. That's the thing you work out once you're working on it. So I add a formant shifter. Little AlterBoy works fine, I just put it up a little bit. Then a reverb and delay bus as a send. That's just instant proper reverb and delay.

Then I get rid of the sidechain just in front of the vocal, because it needs to instantly open there.