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Added 2024-10-16 23:29:00 +0000 UTCComments
German or not (not), all I mean is this: The effect produced by talk boxes and vocoders are often conflated by listeners.[1][2] However, they have radically different mechanisms for achieving the effect. Talk boxes send the carrier signal into the singer's mouth, where it is then modulated by the singer themselves. On the other hand, vocoders process both the carrier and the modulator signal integrally, producing the output as a separate electric signal. They are also more common in different genres: a talk box is often found in rock music due to its typical pairing with a guitar, whereas vocoders are almost always paired with synthesizers, and as such, are ubiquitous in electronic music. (From the wiki page for Talk Box).
Martin Dunér
2024-11-04 18:34:40 +0000 UTC@ Martin: Maybe you read the whole wikipedia article before you get all German about it. Robert Moog turned that "different beast", which it isn't, into a musical vocoder, which is always (always) mentioned as a "vocoder" in the sleeve notes of said albums. [omitting a more personal line about you here], haha.
Anderson Davies
2024-11-04 08:16:49 +0000 UTCYou mean the "Talk Box". A vocoder is a different beast.
Martin Dunér
2024-11-03 20:26:44 +0000 UTCOn Weird Science you say "This is the theme song for a Frankenstein Movie" - well, the move (which came out in the mid-1980s is pretty much that - with teenage boys as the "scientists"... you can imagine what they created. LOL
Traci Hacker
2024-10-21 17:25:18 +0000 UTCThe vocoder was a go-to gimmick for a while (Peter Frampton most successfully within my earshot), even Wishbone Ash had a turn at it. However it didn't make for a good look to have a clear plastic tube taped up alongside the vocal mic; is our favourite singer experiencing health issues?
George Davis-Stewart
2024-10-18 08:39:27 +0000 UTCYes, Danny Elfman did ALL of Tim Burton's movies, including Beetlejuice, Nightmare before Christmas, Edward Scissorhands, Corpse Bride and and and. Their 3rd or 4th best album only actually, yet still fantastic. The production, the arrangements. Eight Guys playing and singing (that "warble" you mentioned actually is called "tremolo") like haunted by the devil, and still it all fits together oh so well! A totally underrated guitar player, a certain Steve Bartek who in the future would do the orchestral arrangements of more or less everything Danny Elfman composed for movies, did them btw. The song "Same Man...) could have been from Depeche Mode. What made you wonder very likely has been a vocoder which also was used at that time heavily by Mike Oldfield. AND this track is a very rare one for Oingo Boingo - can you figure out what makes it special for this band?. Hehe. Go into detective mode :P Oh, and you really HAVE to look for live recordings on YouTube, especially from the Ritz 1985. Then you will not only hear him putting something dark into his voice - you can even see it! Enjoy :)
Anderson Davies
2024-10-18 01:41:25 +0000 UTCI have not heard this before but that’s my fault not the band’s. On the basis of the first two tracks so far I’d say it’s blooming brilliant. A waft of Frankie and Trevor Horn perhaps but great fun!
George Davis-Stewart
2024-10-17 11:50:34 +0000 UTC
