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Joachim Kettner
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Germany
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Posted 29 Dec 2009 12:44 pm |
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Does anybody know how this gimmick is made. Is the tape speeded up later and then brought up to the right pitch?
If so it seems to be very difficult.
I could imagine some of you would know how it is done.
BTW I like Mick Ronson a lot.
The voices come in at 1:11
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Leslie Ehrlich
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Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada
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Posted 29 Dec 2009 12:56 pm
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I think the tape is slowed down and the singer sings along with the music playing at lower pitch, and after the voice is overdubbed the recording is brought back up to normal pitch.
I've done this with digital recording (made my voice lower or higher) using the same technique.
Actually, Mickey Mouse's voice is just a normal male voice in falsetto.
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Bryan Daste
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Portland, Oregon, USA
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Posted 29 Dec 2009 4:51 pm
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| Yep, that's it. The Beatles used the 'varispeed' effect a lot on Sgt. Peppers (vocals and other instruments). |
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David L. Donald
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Koh Samui Island, Thailand
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Posted 29 Dec 2009 7:59 pm
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The classic sing to a slow tape then speed it up
was Dave Seville doing the Chipmmonks. amd they basically did it the same for most of the time till digital came in.
Micky Mouse in the original 'Tug Boat Willie'
was the voice of Walt himself doing falseto.
No tricks that I ever heard of.
Later there was a general contest in Disney's animation studio,
and all comers had a chance to audition as
Walt's replacement voice. There have been several since then.
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Alvin Blaine
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Picture Rocks, Arizona, USA
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Posted 29 Dec 2009 11:22 pm
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I think Les Paul was the first to use the tape slow down-speed up trick.
Today you can get the same effect with a stomp box, rack unit, or computer program. You can change pitch from two octaves down to two octaves up, and anywhere in between, with a touch of a button.
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Joachim Kettner
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Germany
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Posted 30 Dec 2009 12:08 am
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Thank you,
this explains how it's done. I wish I still had a reel to reel machine, to try and do this. |
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Alvin Blaine
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Picture Rocks, Arizona, USA
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Posted 30 Dec 2009 12:41 am
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just buy some multi-effect rack unit, most of them have pitch shift of some sort. I just bought a used Lexicon MPX 200 for $90 and it does the pitch shift, any where from one octave down to one octave above, and also does Chorus, Delay, Detune, Echo, Flange, Reverb, Rotary, and Tremolo.
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Jerry Hayes
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Virginia Beach, Va.
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Posted 30 Dec 2009 9:11 am
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I've done the trick of slowing down the tape in a studio to sing harmony parts with female singers or a male with a high voice, works great. Works great for instrumentals too. I did a track of the old bluegrass tune "Old Joe Clark which I wanted to play in A but with the guitar fingering I wanted to use, the key of G was better but I couldn't quite get it up to speed so instead of using a capo, I just slowed down the rhythm track in A so it played in G and then recorded the track. When I played it back it made me sound smoother and faster than I really am so that's cool. It'd be hell to try to play it live at that speed though!....JH in Va.
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