Fast forward to and a new era of electronic music and synthesizers. Crowds were mesmerized by the magical and funky robotic vocals Roger was able to create, making a more human-feeling, more articulate talkbox performance than ever heard before with guitars.
It was used on many songs after that but Roger continued to wear the talkbox crown until his most well-known feature on Tupac and Dr. Sadly, Roger was killed in due to a tragic dispute with his brother. Countless other digital synths create similar sounds that can help you get started talking the talk. When talk-boxing, Pollack recommends playing monophonically, only sounding one note at a time.
The reason? Being able to sing using the Talk Box takes time and practice. Once you have the hang of it, it becomes second nature, but getting there can take months. Using the pitch wheel to add little bends is also cool.
A key part of the equation when playing with a Talk Box is the microphone that picks up the cyber-punk hybrid sounds emanating from your mouth. A vocoder takes a signal and modulates it electronically.
So yes, they are based on the same principles, that of modulation. I'm with Ian C. The vocorder results in a somewhat-similar sound, but how it works is entirely different. The vocoder tries to do what the talkbox is doing, but, well, it's comparing the original sound, as far as guitarists are concerned, with an interloper.
Technically, the vocoder is more capable and can be controlled by more sources such as MIDI or control voltages, but I've never heard one come close to the sound of a cranked up talk box rattling the fillings of a guitarist.
I think they're taking issue with your phrase that a talkbox is basically a vocoder, which isn't really true. In your comments you're arguing that a vocoder and talkbox are based on the same principle, modulation, which is true. Understanding modulation will get you a lot further than just a talkbox and vocoder chorus, flange, wah, phaser, tremolo , so I think your point wasn't particularly clear in your answer.
I'm also not so sure how useful the point is when explaining it to someone that doesn't even know the basics of the effect. Saying it's the same as FM radio may be true at an abstract mathematical level, but it's getting a little on the esoteric side in a discussion of guitar effects. Show 6 more comments. Sign up or log in Sign up using Google. Sign up using Facebook. Sign up using Email and Password. Post as a guest Name. Email Required, but never shown. Featured on Meta.
Rather, a clever device called the talk box allows Frampton to serenade his audience though his guitar. The talk box is not to be confused with other effects devices, such as the wah-wah pedal or vocoder. A wah-wah pedal is another staple of classic rock music, but musicians simply use a foot pedal to make an electric guitar's frequency shift from treble to bass, creating a "wah" sound.
Some also mistake the talk box for Auto-Tune , a technique that has become popular in the past few years, especially in pop music. Auto-Tune is a type of software that can help slightly manipulate a singer's voice to hit the right notes. The talk box device, on the other hand, takes advantage of the unique qualities of the human mouth and vocal tract and lends them to instruments.
The talk box is a surprisingly simple device, but in order to understand how it works, we'll have to appreciate some of the complexities of the human vocal tract. We push air from our lungs through our vocal folds also called vocal cords in the larynx.
The vocal folds are the things that create an air valve and allow us to vibrate the air, which makes our speech audible. The larynx muscles also control pitch and tone. But it's the mouth, with its tongue, palate, teeth and lips, that helps us form different sounds to create words and complex language. An instrument, like a guitar , doesn't have lungs to power its sound. Rather, the musician plucks or strums its strings to cause vibrations, which in turn form the sound.
What the talk box does is allow the musician to lend his or her mouth to the instrument as well. To help explain how this is possible, let's go over the mechanics.
A talk box, in its simplest form, consists of a horn driver and a plastic tube. You'll even find tutorials on the Internet that can teach you how to make a crude version at home with some materials from the hardware store. A commercial talk box, however, will provide the best sound. The commercial version will be a small effects box with an input, an output and a long plastic tube. To get the best effect, the setup should include an amplifier and a PA system. The plastic tube, which is connected to the effects box, can be affixed to a microphone stand by clipping or taping it up to the stand and the microphone itself.
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