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What vocoder...?

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Ninja

Active Member
Hey guys,

Anyone have any inside knowledge on what vocoder was used on Imogen Heap's track Hide & Seek ?

It sounds like a combination of maybe a vocoder and a harmonizer at the same time, but I can't make what models they used. My guess is that a Roland VP-330 was part of the equation...

Anyone have any inside info?
 
saemskin

saemskin

Established Member
Have you tried asking them? You'd be amazed at how down to earth some people can be.

Repeat: \"some\"
 
Eric Dahlberg

Eric Dahlberg

Purveyor of musical dreams fullfilled.
You could ask Spacey, he recently did a remix for them. Dave Spiers of GForce is truly a vocoder guru, he'd probably know.
 
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tapeop

Member
Ha! Easy!

It's a digitech studio vocalist



You can hear it in other records, like moloko (it isn't actually doing the same thing as in imogen heap but it's making the deep low voices - from rosyn voice) and in a recent brian eno album.
I have one and love it (but i'm selling it).
It's basically an EXTREME harmonizer
 
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Spacey

Active Member
I'd love to know what vocoder Imogen used as well. Doing the mix for that song in the 4 days I was given was hard he he.... 2 days of cutting up the vocals in Melodyne and syncing them all up.

I don't think she sang to a click track so the tempo wanders from like 90 to 130 bpm or something like that. Really liking her album actually, I would never listend to it had I not done the remix for her. But glad I did as there are some great tracks on there.

Vocoder wise though I would go with an analog one, I know there are some modern cheaper ones out there. Software vsti vocoders are like software phasers... not even close :(

Ahhh sorry TapeOp I didn't read your post properly, hmmm I might have to get one of those as it does actually sound really nice.
 
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tapeop

Member
Spacey said:
I'd love to know what vocoder Imogen used as well. Doing the mix for that song in the 4 days I was given was hard he he.... 2 days of cutting up the vocals in Melodyne and syncing them all up.

I don't think she sang to a click track so the tempo wanders from like 90 to 130 bpm or something like that. Really liking her album actually, I would never listend to it had I not done the remix for her. But glad I did as there are some great tracks on there.

Vocoder wise though I would go with an analog one, I know there are some modern cheaper ones out there. Software vsti vocoders are like software phasers... not even close :(

Ahhh sorry TapeOp I didn't read your post properly, hmmm I might have to get one of those as it does actually sound really nice.
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i'm quite found of it, particullary because it hasn't been used that much and has a unique sound that's much more interesting than auto-tune set to kill.
you can get them dead cheap, it's shitty early-90s technology and no one really cares about them. oh, go to the EX version, cause it has more options, and the difference in price is almost irrelevant
 
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