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From: ryan@fremen.DEC (Mike Ryan	DTN 264-8280 MK01-2/H32)
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Subject: Re: Re: KB-high voice/low voice
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Date: Tue, 13-Aug-85 11:47:09 EDT
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> 
>> It is tempting to make an ad-hominem comment here, but I won't.  It
>> wouldn't be hard to manufacture something like that.  You could do it
>> like this.  Record all the instrumen-tals on a multitrack tape
>> machine.  Slow down the tape machine a whole lot.  Play it back;
>> record your voice as you sing along with the music at your normal
>> vocal range, but at a much slower tempo, and an octave or two higher
>> than the music you hear playing back.  Presto! "Double-speed voice,"
>> like Mike Oldfield's "Double Speed Guitar".  Not that Kate Bush would
>> do that, but you asked how you would MANUFACTURE such a thing.
> 
>No, no, no!  Then you get something that sounds like The Chipmunks!  Not
>Kate Bush!  (Comments saying that Kate Bush sounds like Alvin (or any of
>the others) will NOT be appreciated!)
> 
>			 Doug Alan

Double speed wouldn't work, but you can "increase" your range somewhat
without the Chipmunk effect.  Pink Floyd did this on one of the tracks
on "Wish You Were Here" (Welcome to the Machine, if I'm not mistaken).
Roger couldn't quite hit a high note, so they recorded the instruments
at normal speed, played it back a step flat as he sang the vocal track,
and mastered it at the normal speed.

Mike Ryan
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