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Electronic voice modification in music

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Postby GoSeigen » June 3rd, 2021, 9:36 am

DAK what the process or device is called which has been commonly used in pop music for the past ten years or so which alters the singer's voice to sound "electronic" or processed and seems able to do tricks like modulate the tone, add tremelo, etc.

At a stretch I could find an example but it is so widespread hopefully anyone can recognise the description!

GS
EDIT: First time I heard it was actually a Cher song back in the early 90s (i think) but it has become ubiquitous since then.

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Re: Electronic voice modification in music

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Postby ReformedCharacter » June 3rd, 2021, 10:32 am

GoSeigen wrote:DAK what the process or device is called which has been commonly used in pop music for the past ten years or so which alters the singer's voice to sound "electronic" or processed and seems able to do tricks like modulate the tone, add tremelo, etc.

At a stretch I could find an example but it is so widespread hopefully anyone can recognise the description!

GS
EDIT: First time I heard it was actually a Cher song back in the early 90s (i think) but it has become ubiquitous since then.

Auto-tune:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auto-Tune

RC

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Re: Electronic voice modification in music

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Postby 88V8 » June 3rd, 2021, 10:41 am


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Re: Electronic voice modification in music

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Postby servodude » June 3rd, 2021, 11:00 am



Vocoders are awesome.

I've got one of these https://www.ehx.com/products/v256/ and it's great fun

Autotune is the devil's work though!

-sd

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Re: Electronic voice modification in music

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Postby GoSeigen » June 3rd, 2021, 11:27 am

ReformedCharacter wrote:
GoSeigen wrote:DAK what the process or device is called which has been commonly used in pop music for the past ten years or so which alters the singer's voice to sound "electronic" or processed and seems able to do tricks like modulate the tone, add tremelo, etc.

At a stretch I could find an example but it is so widespread hopefully anyone can recognise the description!

GS
EDIT: First time I heard it was actually a Cher song back in the early 90s (i think) but it has become ubiquitous since then.

Auto-tune:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auto-Tune

RC


Thank you all, that's exactly it, even mentions Cher in the introduction and calls the effect I was referring to "the Cher effect", though it was used later than I remembered, in 1998.

Now can anyone suggest a good way to automatically filter out songs that use Auto-Tune from playlists I am playing? :D

GS

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Re: Electronic voice modification in music

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Postby servodude » June 3rd, 2021, 1:09 pm

GoSeigen wrote:
ReformedCharacter wrote:
GoSeigen wrote:DAK what the process or device is called which has been commonly used in pop music for the past ten years or so which alters the singer's voice to sound "electronic" or processed and seems able to do tricks like modulate the tone, add tremelo, etc.

At a stretch I could find an example but it is so widespread hopefully anyone can recognise the description!

GS
EDIT: First time I heard it was actually a Cher song back in the early 90s (i think) but it has become ubiquitous since then.

Auto-tune:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auto-Tune

RC


Thank you all, that's exactly it, even mentions Cher in the introduction and calls the effect I was referring to "the Cher effect", though it was used later than I remembered, in 1998.

Now can anyone suggest a good way to automatically filter out songs that use Auto-Tune from playlists I am playing? :D

GS


Keep it to stuff before '98 ;)

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Re: Electronic voice modification in music

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Postby Mike4 » June 3rd, 2021, 1:14 pm

Vocoders first came to my attention in about 1973 when Peter Frampton used one often, after leaving the band Humble Pie. A brief goggle turns up this good discussion of them:

https://legendarytones.com/talkboxes-vo ... c-helicon/

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Re: Electronic voice modification in music

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Postby servodude » June 3rd, 2021, 1:19 pm

Mike4 wrote:Vocoders first came to my attention in about 1973 when Peter Frampton used one often, after leaving the band Humble Pie. A brief goggle turns up this good discussion of them:

https://legendarytones.com/talkboxes-vo ... c-helicon/


Frampton famously used a talk box
- that does the "vocoding sound" using your own pipes
- absolute faff to set up and can can play havoc on your throat and fillings - but fun if limited

-sd

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Re: Electronic voice modification in music

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Postby AleisterCrowley » June 3rd, 2021, 1:29 pm

I think Richie Sambora uses a talkbox on 'Livin' on a Prayer' (Bon Jovi)
My first thought re the op was 'vocoder' which has been mentioned upthread

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Re: Electronic voice modification in music

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Postby UncleEbenezer » June 3rd, 2021, 3:21 pm

GoSeigen wrote:Now can anyone suggest a good way to automatically filter out songs that use Auto-Tune from playlists I am playing? :D

GS

The clue may be in the word "songs". Stick to singers.


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