Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site decwrl.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!harvard!think!mit-eddie!genrad!decvax!decwrl!dec-rhea!dec-fremen!ryan From: ryan@fremen.DEC (Mike Ryan DTN 264-8280 MK01-2/H32) Newsgroups: net.music Subject: Re: Re: KB-high voice/low voice Message-ID: <3595@decwrl.UUCP> Date: Tue, 13-Aug-85 11:47:09 EDT Article-I.D.: decwrl.3595 Posted: Tue Aug 13 11:47:09 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 18-Aug-85 21:45:20 EDT Sender: daemon@decwrl.UUCP Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation Lines: 27 > >> 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 ARPA: ryan%fremen.DEC@DECWRL.ARPA UUCP: {decvax,allegra,ihnp4,ucbvax,...}!decwrl!dec-rhea!dec-fremen!ryan