Heard They Might Be Giants' "Some Crazy Bastard Wants To Hit Me"?
Similar to the Cher thing,but much cooler casue its not Cher....
'That' voice effect
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- KVRian
- 1107 posts since 31 Oct, 2002 from the high desert
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- KVRist
- 194 posts since 1 Jun, 2004 from uk
I had a strange dream a while back, in which Cher exploded outside my local Woolworths. All that was left was dust and old yellow balloon rubber.
it was a good dream.
it was a good dream.
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- KVRAF
- 4143 posts since 7 Sep, 2001 from Melbourne, Australia
I'm wondering if you could get a vaguely similar effect with careful programming in a sampler and some clever pitchbending.
Never tried it myself.
Caleb
Never tried it myself.
Caleb
Happiness is the hidden behind the obvious.
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- KVRAF
- 13444 posts since 14 Nov, 2000 from Hannover / Germany
The effect itself can be done easily in various ways using a proper sampler (could perhaps do it in seconds in Kontakt), but rebuilding all your vocal phrases by triggering appropriate sampler keys is a painful thing.Caleb wrote:I'm wondering if you could get a vaguely similar effect with careful programming in a sampler and some clever pitchbending.
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Those who can do maths and those who can't.
Those who can do maths and those who can't.
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- KVRist
- 31 posts since 2 Feb, 2005 from Santa Cruz, CA
The "Cher effect" is Auto Tune with the retune speed set to 0. You can download 10 day trials of auto tune 4 for free to try it out for yourself. http://www.antarestech.com/download/demo.html
I wouldn't be surprised if there were other effects thrown in as well, but the primary effect is the act of retuning from one note to another without any time for the singer's voice to do the shift...it sounds robotic because it is humanly impossible. Auto Tune sounds natural at higher retune speed values.
I wouldn't be surprised if there were other effects thrown in as well, but the primary effect is the act of retuning from one note to another without any time for the singer's voice to do the shift...it sounds robotic because it is humanly impossible. Auto Tune sounds natural at higher retune speed values.
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- KVRist
- 326 posts since 13 Sep, 2002 from Perth Western Australia
as long as you use that effect for good not evil.. I've heard countless rnb tracks trying to disguise the fact that a singer cant sing by adding heaps of autotune. It sounds totally artificial and quite lame now. I've heard it used really well though..
eg. Makoto & MC Conrad - Futures Call. Lovely Dnb track!
eg. Makoto & MC Conrad - Futures Call. Lovely Dnb track!
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http://soundcloud.com/damien-chamizo
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- KVRian
- 604 posts since 7 Jul, 2004 from Somewhere between the 2nd and 3rd dimensions.
Great post.BrianEnglish wrote:The "Cher effect" is Auto Tune with the retune speed set to 0. You can download 10 day trials of auto tune 4 for free to try it out for yourself. http://www.antarestech.com/download/demo.html
I wouldn't be surprised if there were other effects thrown in as well, but the primary effect is the act of retuning from one note to another without any time for the singer's voice to do the shift...it sounds robotic because it is humanly impossible. Auto Tune sounds natural at higher retune speed values.
Pet Shop Boys used it quite a bit on the 'Release' album (a.k.a. 'Now Printing'), probably because Neil's range is suffering nowadays.
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- KVRist
- 196 posts since 23 Jul, 2002 from Aberdeen, Scotland
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- AcousticHippie
- 4769 posts since 12 Mar, 2003
have you guys ever tried to modulate the vocals by using AKAI Pitch Correction (triggering it with a midi keyboard is fun)