A combination of corrective and creative processing was used to create the verse vocal sound. Waves' Renaissance EQ dealt with excessive proximity effect and a little harshness at around 7kHz, while their Neve‑inspired VEQ4 plug‑in added some beneficial transformer character, as well as brightening the sound overall. Stiff compression with Waves' Renaissance Vox kept the sound fixed fairly well in its position in the mix balance, although this did also emphasise sibilance, so Waves' De‑esser was pulled up to take care of that.