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StuBu	Date: October 18, 2004 @ 9:05 AM Hey, does anyone know how to manipulate vocals. One example of music is Shania Twain, her 'Up' album. Her voice is altered by pitch, chorus, and possibly modulation or vibrato. They also use an envelope to gradually add the effects and come out of them. It would be sweet to find out. Also does anyone remeber 'I'm Blue' from Eifel? What do they use to make the synthetic voice? I'm clueless.
EmpireDay3	Date: October 23, 2004 @ 7:37 AM Mix,Electronic Musician, Keyboard and Home Recording magazines regularly have articles on the tricks used by engineers recording and mixing these types of tracks. Although I don't remember the entire process, it was really fascinating the way they did Cher's vocals on her song a few years back - "Believe" I think it was - where her voice went through pitch shifters and auto tuners etc, etc and it was an extremely cool effect. But anyway, I do not know specifically what effects were used on the shania album, I'd have to give it a listen. But I do remember reading about eifel using a vocoder for the effect on that song. Vocoders can do some really cool stuff for all kinds of sounds, but the effects used on vocals mixed at multi-million dollar studios are the ones I'd really like to get my hands on just once!
Intergalacti...	Date: October 23, 2004 @ 3:35 PM The effect on Dave Grohl's voice at the start of Generator is awesome. For that he had this like kazoo lookin thing attatched to his microphone. A vocodor a source tells me.
perkie1973	Date: October 24, 2004 @ 12:32 AM invest in a vocal workstation...great for manipulating vocals.....
iluminati	Date: October 24, 2004 @ 6:02 PM There are so many possible ways you could alter a vocal. The key is to take the vocal track and separate it into various sound bytes based upon where you want to make alterations. Take the samples and using either a softsynth or hardware create the equivalent of a synth patch using the soundbytes. Then you can trigger the individual parts via keys and use the synthesizer to do real time effects as if the voice was a standard synthesized instrument. Pitch alterations, vibrato or doubling are easy to accomplish once you have the patch setup.
iluminati	Date: October 24, 2004 @ 6:05 PM If you want to see an example of vocal manipulation check out my track "The Great Conspiracy?" at http://iluminati.dmusic.com/. The effect is different from the one you are trying to attain as I use a vocoder to blend a synth sound with a voice. However the idea is very similar.
StuBu	Date: October 24, 2004 @ 11:33 PM Woah, splitting the vocal tracks, that sounds pretty intense. Before you do that, I guess you'd need a good take. I might delve into trying that. I also wish I had a sampler. Your vocals, Ilumi, pretty cool effect.
iluminati	Date: October 25, 2004 @ 12:49 AM Thanks. BTW that track was done only using 2 software tools. FLStudio and a wave editor to chop and normalize the samples. FLStudio makes stuff like that very easy to do, and it only runs for about $150.
AdamsGod	Date: November 17, 2004 @ 1:32 PM try downloading Waves plugins. theyre great and they have a huge variety ofcrap to play with on vocals, as well as guitars and basses. if you want you can give my music a quick listen to see what i meen

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