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Pop Smoke vocal preset

The Pop Smoke vocal reads as deep baritone, gravelly / raspy, Brooklyn drill aggression. VocalDose has that chain built in: put it on your vocal, say "make me sound like Pop Smoke", pick your key. Every DAW, Mac and Windows.

Get it in one sentence. Open VocalDose on the vocal track and say "make me sound like Pop Smoke". It loads the Pop Smoke chain (tune, tone, space, character), asks for your key, and you're recording. $59.99, 51 artists included, installed by the Hub.
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the sound

What the Pop Smoke vocal sounds like

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deep baritone
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gravelly / raspy
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Brooklyn drill aggression
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doubled leads
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relatively dry vs trap wetness
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dark short ambience

How it changed

  • Meet the Woo (2019). UK-influenced Brooklyn drill; deep raw baritone; Welcome to the Party / Dior.
  • Meet the Woo 2 / final sessions (2020). Expanded drill; Jess Jackson involvement begins.
  • Shoot for the Stars, Aim for the Moon (2020). Posthumous debut; Auto-Tune Live consistency across album (per SOS); melodic crossover hits.
  • Faith (2021). Second posthumous album; continued drill + melodic material.
the real chain

What is actually public about Pop Smoke's vocal chain

  • Sound on Sound Inside Track (Jess Jackson on 'The Woo', Nov 2020): hook vocals arrived with Auto-Tune Pro; Jackson switched them to Auto-Tune Live to match other album sessions and keep the album sound consistent.
  • SOS (Jess Jackson): main lead-vocal effect on 'The Woo' was a Yamaha SPX90 for an early-2000s rap reverb character; also used Behringer V-Verb Pro (plate), Yamaha Rev-7 (shorter metallic reverb), and hardware Eventide delay.
  • Complex (Corey 'Cutz' Nutile / Jess Jackson interviews on recording Pop Smoke): Pop preferred doubled vocals—sometimes double-doubled (L/C/R)—and repeatedly asked engineers to turn his vocal down so the beat still banged, saying his voice would cut anyway.

Sources: soundonsound.com · soundonsound.com · complex.com

VocalDose does not copy anyone's session. It gives you a chain tuned to read as Pop Smoke on your voice, in your key, in the DAW you already use.

reference

Songs to reference for the Pop Smoke vocal

2019
Welcome to the Party. Breakthrough UK-drill Brooklyn anthem.
2019
Dior. Meet the Woo staple; deep baritone drill reference.
2019
Gatti (with JackBoys & Travis Scott). Crossover Travis collab expanding audience.
2020
The Woo (feat. 50 Cent & Roddy Ricch). SOS Inside Track subject; major posthumous single.
2020
For the Night (feat. Lil Baby & DaBaby). SFTSAFTM hit; melodic drill crossover.
2020
What You Know Bout Love. Melodic Hot 100 hit from debut album.
2020
Mood Swings (feat. Lil Tjay). Melodic SFTSAFTM single.
2021
Element. Faith-era drill cut.
discography

Pop Smoke albums

Meet the Woo (mixtape) (2019) · Meet the Woo 2 (mixtape) (2020) · Shoot for the Stars, Aim for the Moon (2020) · Faith (2021)
Recent: Faith (album) (2021), Faith (Deluxe) (2021).

questions

Pop Smoke vocal preset questions

Did Pop Smoke use Auto-Tune?

Pop Smoke's tuning is deep baritone, gravelly / raspy, Brooklyn drill aggression, doubled leads. What is public: Sound on Sound Inside Track (Jess Jackson on 'The Woo', Nov 2020): hook vocals arrived with Auto-Tune Pro; Jackson switched them to Auto-Tune Live to match other album sessions and keep the album sound consistent. In VocalDose the tune stage for Pop Smoke is already dialled in; say "harder tune" or "more natural" after the preset lands to move it.

How to sound like Pop Smoke?

VocalDose gets you the Pop Smoke sound in one sentence: open it on your vocal and say "make me sound like Pop Smoke". It loads a tuned chain built for that sound, then asks for your key. The preset covers the deep baritone, gravelly / raspy, Brooklyn drill aggression, doubled leads that make the Pop Smoke vocal read as Pop Smoke; your voice and your key do the rest.

What is Pop Smoke's vocal chain?

The Pop Smoke vocal chain reads as deep baritone, gravelly / raspy, Brooklyn drill aggression, doubled leads. What is public: Sound on Sound Inside Track (Jess Jackson on 'The Woo', Nov 2020): hook vocals arrived with Auto-Tune Pro; Jackson switched them to Auto-Tune Live to match other album sessions and keep the album sound consistent. VocalDose gets you the Pop Smoke sound in one sentence: open it on your vocal and say "make me sound like Pop Smoke". It loads a tuned chain built for that sound, then asks for your key.

How to mix Brooklyn drill vocals?

Public credits name Jess Jackson, Corey "Cutz" Nutile, Sage Skolfield, 808Melo. VocalDose gets you the Pop Smoke sound in one sentence: open it on your vocal and say "make me sound like Pop Smoke". It loads a tuned chain built for that sound, then asks for your key.

Who mixed Pop Smoke's Shoot for the Stars album?

Public credits name Jess Jackson, Corey "Cutz" Nutile, Sage Skolfield, 808Melo. VocalDose gets you the Pop Smoke sound in one sentence: open it on your vocal and say "make me sound like Pop Smoke". It loads a tuned chain built for that sound, then asks for your key.

How to get Pop Smoke's deep baritone presence?

VocalDose gets you the Pop Smoke sound in one sentence: open it on your vocal and say "make me sound like Pop Smoke". It loads a tuned chain built for that sound, then asks for your key. What is public: Sound on Sound Inside Track (Jess Jackson on 'The Woo', Nov 2020): hook vocals arrived with Auto-Tune Pro; Jackson switched them to Auto-Tune Live to match other album sessions and keep the album sound consistent.

Did Pop Smoke double his vocals?

Stack them on their own track and run the same Pop Smoke chain on each layer. In VocalDose, "make me sound like Pop Smoke" on the lead, then "more doubles" or "wider" on the stack, gets the deep baritone, gravelly / raspy, Brooklyn drill aggression, doubled leads layering without a second plugin.

What reverb did Pop Smoke use?

The Pop Smoke vocal chain reads as deep baritone, gravelly / raspy, Brooklyn drill aggression, doubled leads. What is public: Sound on Sound Inside Track (Jess Jackson on 'The Woo', Nov 2020): hook vocals arrived with Auto-Tune Pro; Jackson switched them to Auto-Tune Live to match other album sessions and keep the album sound consistent. VocalDose gets you the Pop Smoke sound in one sentence: open it on your vocal and say "make me sound like Pop Smoke". It loads a tuned chain built for that sound, then asks for your key.

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