Here's an interesting one I just found...

http://toolshed.down.net/articles/index.php?action=view-article&id=March_2002--Mix_Magazine.html

You should note that they most likely use different mics and such for their recordings.

You can find some others on that site (toolshed.don.net). I know that for the latest Tool CD they supposadly recorded the vocals using protools, and that the first APC was also protools - not that that really says much though. Good luck.

It's all in his voice. It's not the mic or the gear...it don't matter what you track Maynard with, his voice is unmistakable.

Tell the guy to sing like him. Then just use the best mic you have and run it through a neve pre or something of that sort.

Nahhhh..
Tell the guy to sing like Eddie Vedder! The world does'nt have enough people that sing like Eddie Vedder!

Maynard has very distinct vocal characteristics. He changes his timbre a lot between songs, distinctly heared on any Tool album.

A good clean mic with a clean mic pre should work. But you might want to experiment with a few colored pres.

Do remember, during the Opiate and Undertow days the vocals were recorded fairly clean with compression, slight reverb, and some eq. Delay effects used occasionally for effect.

Aenima and Lateralus had heavy use of effects. Quite often killer eq to just leave the mid range, or tube distortion for that low fi effect. Chorus, Reverb, Delay all used a fair bit. Some reverse delay on Reflection. Used that megophone as well for Eulogy.

Good Luck. David Bottril is an exception producer, hard to compete with.

What's the name of this female producer on Undertow? I read an article in EQ Magazine, and as I remember, she often used an SM58. That, apparently, was her favorite mic. I suppose they used some pretty fancy preamps as well - but still, pretty simple.

Sylvia Massy

She pretty much rocks - has done a lot of great sounding stuff.
"-)