Filtering, EQ, overdrive a compressor, sing through a guitar amp, experiment!

I use cigarettes to get decent vocal distortion

Digitech vocal 300 or something like that. Don't use guitar pedals.

Very true. O and D are very different things. Have anyone tried singing through an overdrive pedal?

You can make on of those phone mics for like 4 dollars, assuming you already own a soldering iron and old phone. It'll do the job. You want overdrive not distortion, two totally different things.

But seriously, you can distort your vocals with tons of things besides distortion. Try running a heavily modulated chorus through a short reverb for one.

Waxtrax disagrees.

woah. this is more complicated than I thought it would be

You could also try a low pass filter to cut those oscillating high frequencies.

I used a noise gate when I had a distortion pedal to my mic.

Shitbird's the man to talk to on this matter.

I've experimented with running vox through my Cube Street set to kill. It works, but like you said Dan, feedback all over the place.

And if you have the money, this little guy right here is the best solution:

I've also been wondering how to get some decent sounding crunchy vocals. Running them through my distortion pedal sounds like absolute ass.

I think a distortion pedal was what Old Grey Wolf was using on his vocals when he performed at blip australia. IMO it kind of ruined the performance.

thx for the advice

Most 'distortion' pedals are made for guitars and the like, which are much less sensitive than a microphone. All that gain will be a nightmare. Also, the distortion would most certainly cut out any lows from your vocals, since their beuilt with guitar range in mind.

it doesn't sound nearly as good as you think it will, and it's FEEDBACK CENTRAL.