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Topic: how to make voice sound like a guitar?
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Sluggo
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posted 11-26-2000 06:36 PM
i cant think of any expamples other than that cher song "belive in love". how do they do that effect where it makes her voice sound kind of like an electric guitar? is there any program i can download to do it, or does it involve complicated and expensive machenery? btw im not a cher freak, i just heard this song on the radio------------------
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Prism
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posted 11-26-2000 07:18 PM
You'd have to selectively cut parts from the vocals. For example, say you're singing from a low note and kind of transitioning to a higher note. What you would wanna do is sing the part a little slower than usual, then in post, cut the transitional parts to get a clean and sudden cut from one note to the next.
If there's a more automatic way of doing it, I wouldn't know. I rely on ingenuity.  Isaiah ------------------
Isaiah, "Sound Guy" Eyre
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It's Alive! Productions
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posted 11-26-2000 08:54 PM
Listen to some Peter Frampton albums,Iwas listening to some of my parents' P.F albums and his sythesizer work was awesome!------------------
Don't dream it,be it!
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Film_Scorer
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posted 11-26-2000 10:08 PM
you may also want to try sampling. it would probably be a little more work, but then it would all be at your fingertips.------------------
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MikeDeuce
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posted 11-27-2000 12:43 AM
Ooh, first post...Sluggo, I believe the effect you're referring to is something that you'd achieve using a vocoder. There's an article at IGN for men that goes into depth about these cool little machines at http://formen.ign.com/news/27916.html but they seem to go for a few hundred bucks easy. An alternative would be downloading Analog X's Vocoder software (I've only experimented briefly with the program however, and I'm not sure how well it would suit your needs). You can get it at http://www.analogx.com/contents/download/audio/vocoder.htm . If you aren't familiar with AnalogX, the guy has tons of completely free software that you can download. Pretty cool stuff. Good luck,
-mike |
Snale
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posted 11-29-2000 04:38 PM
A vocal corrector would get the job done. But it would be about 600 bucks. Look on the internet for pitch correcting software. Or something that does Pitch Quantization (which is what you want anyway) Set it to quantize to the nearest half-step, whole step, or to sound the best (if you know what key you're in) set it so that it quantizes to the nearest scale degree. Then just slur the part like a lounge singer. Your only other option would be to go note by note through the wave in a sound editor, and cut out everything but the pitches you want, then duplicate them lots and lots of times, (make sure your pitches are REALLY accurate or it will sound bad.) Then you will get the effect. Hope this helps. |
I'm Scared Sarge
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posted 11-29-2000 06:49 PM
Try this:
If you have a friend with an electric guitar or electric bass and a distortion pedal, hook up a mic into the line in of the distortion pedal and see if you can find one that sounds right. If you can't, oh well! My friends bass distortion pedal has one that sounds right, and it's much cheaper than the $600 alternative.------------------
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8ride
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posted 12-10-2000 10:47 PM
I believe Kid Rock using one in "Cowboy". It is made by Jim Dunlop but quite pricey. My friend plays guitar and has a wide assortment of effects pedals including a digitech whammy. Hook a mic up to this and you can make some crazy voices. I think these sell for like $175 US. |
SFE
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posted 12-25-2000 04:03 PM
If you see yourself using this fx a lot and you have access to a electric guitar, you can get what is called a talkbox. It is a box that has a plastic tube that you place in your mouth and inputs for the guitar. it combines your vocals through the guitar signal. I think that they cost around sixty bucks. try looking at sweetwater.com or musiciansfriend.com look in the guitar fx sectionsyou might be able to find one cheaper on ebay.
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