A Lesson in Vocal Effects

[OnlineCPR]

Is autotune ever gonna go away? I hope so!

[MrGundamn]

almost overused? PAINFULLY overused.

[emeydixon]

Are yo sure that singer is having her worse day or its that her usual day ??? hahahaha just kidding lols

[TheReddWall]

vocoder is amazing!

[Palomablanca1978]

can it do the hoff?

[DJOnesNzeroS]

Great vid thanks 4 sharing

[MegalomaniaZ]

I never comment...but this is very good and pleasant. You taught me something even after doing electronic music for more than 8 years ;)

[iwannarockon2010]

Will be watching more videos soonlike...GREAT STUFF MAN !!

[TaurenWarlock]

Is it me, or does he remind you of Casey Kasum?

[whatbass]

interesting video, didnt learn much though.

[djeastiano]

What a bellend!

[Jamooshoe]

this is like the sesame street for sounds nerds

[da5idnz]

Great vid.

I wish you'd included Joe Walsh in the talkbox artist segment though ('Rocky Mountain Way'). I'm sure he used it before Frampton; in fact, I read in an interview with Walsh that he showed Frampton how it worked, and Frampton never even thanked him, and then went on to make big sales with Frampton Comes Alive

[bigtoine45]

Roger Troutman is the man. THE MAAAAAAAAN

[FREESPACEBOY]

Kraftwerk mostly used voice synthesis and rarely used vocdoers since the song AUTOBAHN

[199414david]

Can you say..how can i make the first vocal effect????

[ADdadirector]

This is so infomercial but his credibility and accuracy is second to none

[rjwatsoniii]

The bottom line is using tools as needed, not to overuse. Music is expression...

[OlymPigs2010]

...They should call that "The Really Really Cheap Crappy Sound"!

[petrus250]

well, T-pain use Autotune..not a talkbox

[OFFICIALOOZiSOUNDZ]

''Can you come up stairs and let me show you something please''..o.O

[SuperAlexMon]

DAFT PUNK !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!­!

[faunflynn]

Sincere eyebrows.

Kudos ! I get this shit nall the time now.

When we did it 20 yrs ago no one wanted it, Screw 'em.

Cool post.

[steliosbeats]

MicroKorg! There's one on my desk right now :)

[cheeseypeaslee]

really like this vid

[averagemale2000]

good video. I approve.

[dhruvxyz]

hey man that was awesome!! what autotune settings did you use? its urgent please reply soon!! thanks

[MASTEReatsBABYS]

Good job.

[rel124c1]

Awesome. Thanks man!!

[Chainsaw20x7]

what kind of producer doesn't already know what auto-tune is?

[dwalker1963]

not sure if you even need any more comments on how great this video was. Very creative and I love the way it flows from work to home to the studio. Awesome dude. If you ever put up a tutorial site let me know. I will be a fan. Thanks for the good work.

[laflugantabastardo]

Imagine the confusion on the other side of the line when balmyjoey lowered the phone and started talking to the camera. "Hello? Who are you talking to?! Wait, are you leaking trade secrets onto the Internet again?"

[shelly10538]

Hey this was a very cool tutorial. Great job!

[foketesz]

GREAT vid. One thing only: the Cher fx was a Digitech vocalist, I think. BUT it started the auto-tune revolution, coz everyone assumed it was used to do it.

[papahuge]

lololololol

[thanoz123]

Really enjoyed watching your video buddy!Nice job!

[catalin205]

nice vid man

[LinkBulletBill]

1:58 during the performance of Whole Lotta Love by Led Zeppelin at Madison Square Garden from the movie The Song Remains The Same...

What is that effect on Robert Plant's voice?

Lower to louder!

Clear to synthetic!

It's probably echo with another affect towards the echo of his voice... But what is it? How do we do it? I can't find it!

[mdf072]

Good explanation for beginners. Nice job. Your wife is a good sport.

[mrwiggles2000]

oh my god. I'm so tired of auto-tune.

[hiphoproduction4life]

@mrwiggles2000 i second that motion

[GaxAngel]

The mic you get with the MicroKorg is horrible haha, I just use a sm58 live or a condenser mic when recording (via some re-routing eventually to the MK). Nice tutorial though, I'm sure it helped the students a lot.

[KraZyRuskieFilms]

does the powerman 5000 song megatronic use a vocoder?

[krazikris93]

You're not a good friend lol. You took that long to show us a video while your friend is wasting $250 an hour lol u suck

[Nicpetelogan]

Thanks for this condensed info A1 thanks:)

[TAXavier]

Great informative piece.

[lordabomity]

@MrDarcyzPP =P

[benicl1]

Great tutorial video! Best ive ever seen. Well done for all the effort put in to it!

[Mafioso8008]

yie

[thedjtomfoolery]

nice project balmyjoey

[Eoinmoo4]

This is like Blues Clues haha

The style of the scenes

[Raizo886]

respond me if anyone knows if you can enable such thing to you microfone live.

[McQuads87]

feakin' autotune

[GoofyBoa]

CALIFORNIA! KNOWS HOW TO PAAARTY!

[ODMSys]

This one was rather informative, especially with the examples of artists that have used those effects. Hope you'll be getting more of those calls in the future. :)

[Teutonic1250]

what about Styx?

[dRichieRealb]

Hey! thats was a great video, I already know the technics but was really interesting the history tips, and was a fun and enjoyable explanation for people who don't know about it.

I will put this video to my clients in the studio.

Cheers from Colombia!

[daillestdjstyles]

yo0o wats thats melody in the begin of the video ?

[balmyjoey]

something I threw down quickly using a MicroKorg preset.

[ozmanofpeace]

fantastic! great job man! Wish there were more vids like this! btw, your girl is *hot*!

[ssssroryssss2]

You missed out Herbie Hancock!

[djkozmik]

Daft Punk!!!!!!!

[34thstreetblues]

WOW i didn't know u can do that, thats asome!!

[danmr1980]

awesome

[navitos]

Nice video Joey :)

[musiccalgary]

Balmy.

[handsupbud]

So you shouldn't suck on the hose I suppose?

[SJZero]

Humans used to die because their immune systems weren't strong enough to ward off disease. When Penicillin was invented, suddenly people could live after all sorts of illnesses that would have killed them.

Humans used to die because they weren't strong enough to weather long trips hundreds of thousands of miles, which took weeks or months to complete. When the car was invented, suddenly even women could travel distances.

I don't see a difference. Technology moves on. We're tool users.

[ShadowEcho]

@SJZero: When the Black Plague hit, there were no cures. The people who survived were those who developed natural immunity. Now, those who survived the Black Plague are also immune to AIDs. That's called evolution.

Tool-using stops and even reverses evolution, degrading the human race. It's not politically correct for someone to die because they simply aren't fit to survive something, but the result is a stronger race.

Tool-using isn't all good. Not the best argument in this situation.

[SJZero]

@ShadowEcho I'm going to need one hell of a citation showing that black plague resistance equals AIDS immunity.

[swirlingabyss]

@ShadowEcho I would like to see your reference as well.

[ShadowEcho]

I thought I'd already posted a response - it just occured to me that you can't post links on YouTube. Anyways, try Google-ing it, there are more articles and essays than I can count. I've listened to several lectures on the subject and participated in several discussions that either focused on or included the topic. I don't profess to be an expert, but the connection is undeniably there.

[djilyaz]

@ShadowEcho Deep stuff there, but we are talking about autotune....which I wouldn't consider a life or death...it's just music,

but we are pretty pathetic, when any animal half our size can probably kick our asses without weapons..as a human our strongest asset is our mind.

[lordabomity]

If you cant sing.....DON'T sing. That's my freaking motto

[MonsterChuck]

its not always about not being able to sing....... i use pitch correction as an effect to help tie the vocals in with the music. just helps it mesh a lot better with electro music.

[lordabomity]

So you mean all people who likes to do electro music cant sing?? I wrote if you cant sing, "Don't" sing. It has nothing to do with what music you make or why, when, where or "how" My previous statement still stands.

[amaranthinagony]

@lordabomity

what about someone who was born with a hearing problem. rendering them tone deaf, and all they want is to sing. is your motto really going to stop them or just make you look like an ignorant prick.

[lordabomity]

Everybody can sing ALL they want. Singing lets out much emotions. I haven't said ANYTHING about people with hearing problems. You really fail big-time trying to make me look bad. People with no training or hard work behind them and in their music should not make money from faking something others try hard to achieve.

Things like auto-tune is hurting the music industry. Why? Because it's cheating, as much as steroids are cheating.

[lordabomity]

Just because someone was born with no legs doesn't mean that person can be allowed to win the olympics by attaching him or her self to a machine and take credit for it while the people with talent, and people who has worked almost their whole life to get a chance to win.

As with music. So fuck you. You can try to make me out to be the bad guy but all you did was making a really bad comparison. This is reality, not everybody can be winners in life. Deal with it

[lordabomity]

And yes I might sound like an ignorant bastard to you. But how would you feel if you some day got run over by someone in your career, who really did not deserve that promotion while you still have to work your ass off. Just because she / he was the daughter / son of the boss? It's the same thing to me. People cheating their way pass hard working people. And no, I have no personal agenda. I just feel this way. And no, I have nothing against disabled people.

[lrd9999]

@lordabomity Isn't that a like a plasterer saying that it's "cheating" for someone with no skills to be able to put up drywall that looks almost as good in less time than it takes to put up plaster? Following that logic, anything printed, molded or machine made would be considered "fake" and fraudulent. It's only cheating if it's being touted as "un-doctored" but isn't. This technology is like makeup or plastic surgery. a little to cover up a flaw is OK, but too much fixing is worse than none.

[lrd9999]

@lrd9999 Producers have been finding ways of covering up flaws since the invention of tape recording. Over-dubbing with two or three singers to clean up the high and low notes is one obvious example. My problem with auto pitch correction is that it can obliterated the intonations that make a singer sound human, making the recording sound lifeless and robotic. I think it should be added manually to notes that are really bad. If a singer needs more than that, he should probably find a new career.

[CeDigest]

Hate to generalize, but no, most people in electro can't sing. Dont even think about flaming me for this by the way. I make electro (and can sing!!!)

[lordabomity]

I have no intention of flaming you. I was just making a statement. Nothing wrong with electro-music. In my opinion, electro isn't really about vocals anyway. My concern was about vocals in music where the vocals play a huge role. Maybe I misread the meaning of your comment but idk =P

[fetahans]

it's very true so "flaming" some one for telling the truth is just retarded , and to use to much vocal effects you dont even need talent to sing any more

[MezzPaul]

No you can't.

[mjdvids1128]

@CeDigest so you think

[JAYEKUSHtv]

"If you don't like what you hear don't listen"

[bluntside420]

did your friend say time was money.

[melodiccreepingdeath]

yea lol

[MrDarcyzPP]

@bluntside420 was is past tense....his friend used the present tense. And now that I think about it, are you writing in the interrogative or declarative?

[vocalstar]

so what you u sayin is it didnt do to well?

[VincentsVideoVisions]

I don't think they were using a vocoder in that Kraftwerk track... I could be wrong though.

[ALXXMaXX]

No, you're right. It's actually a sophisticated real-time speech synthesizer patented by Florian Schneider Von Esleben, a former member of the group.

[NiPingaConmigo]

Awesome tutorial !!!! Can you please help us by doing a Tutorial on Vocals for FL Studio ? ... We will really love to see the steps and the rules involved on this process ... This could be a video with a lot of hits since there aren't any good ones ... And I'm talking about ACID , Audition , Cubase , ect ... There aren't any ... And seems like you can do a very good one ... There are interesting things like, Compressing , Pitch Correction ,Etc ... And we would really like to learn it

[7MinuteSummer]

Thanx for putting in so much passion. It has been a real pleasure watching it ;)

[nikiwonoto]

wow!!!!....very cool tutorial video!! does anybody here know what's the name of the songs from: - Electronic Light Orchestra, - Daft Punk in this video? very nice tutorial video btw there are so many "teachers" in this world, but personally I found only a very few handful of teachers who are REALLY good and you can tell how *passionate* they're doing. this guy here, IMO, is one of the good example! keep on tutoring/teaching. I'm officially your subscriber now! :)

[balmyjoey]

Daft Punk - Digital Love

ELO - Mr Blue Sky

Thnx for your comments!  :)

[TheBrownbrother]

wew... California... Don't stop the party...

[mettetation]

Nice one man. Keep up the good work

[dieauserwalte]

vocoder,talkbox,pitch correction.Got It.the 3 main tools for outstanding vocal results.Hail unto you man.One of the Finest music tutorial videos ive seen so far.

[cueproduc]

yow great work keep it up.

[MangoSound]

Thankyou, for taking the time to create an awesome video, you truely have explained the history of modulated voicing. Love the vacuum tube voicebox!!!

[justinthewilson]

this guy sounds a lot like charlie from its always sunny!

[jasonrulesdude]

lol yea he does

[DJChrisLock]

Nice vid. Watched the entire thing...

[spokenout24]

dude that was pretty kick ass. LOL, I love the blue clues acting. But your 5,000 times better then that fuckin duece on blues

[bbunters]

Blue's clues!!!

[cheonmunka]

I watched all of that, well done.

[sexyvanessa21298]

kool

[martinrandle]

Can't believe you forgot the iconic Bon Jovi's Living on a Prayer when showing the voice box effect.

[littlegreenjason]

What? No Joe Walsh?

[ChicagoDunn]

Wow this is like blues clues.

[mrwillgreen]

How could you forget about about Roger Troutman & Zapp! "Computer Love" thats a Classic!

[boabstewart]

jesus forgive them

[rdcraig777]

this is very informative. I have been starting to work with music recording (just at home on my laptop) and I can't sing too well.. so I have been looking around at a few things trying to figure out what does what. This video helped out a lot.

[RonBrasco]

dont forget to practice singing 1st and formost

[LubricatedBeat]

Kraftwerk FTW!

[myspacceer]

dude you forgot Bon Jovi for the talkbox lol

[MrLarryAppleton]

This is a great video, man.

[cotage]

you rule.

thanks a lot for doing an educational video and making it fun.

greets and beats

[EarlyMist]

Great educational Video. The long shot editing works in a classroom sense for sure. I used to teach audio engineering and this would have come in handy. cheers.

[giftedbrother]

i glad u made this. 1 thing that really urks me is when folks come in my studio and want to use my talk box to get that t-payne sound or they call the talk box a vocoder or visa versa! and i dont even waste my time trying to explain it to them. lol. also im glad u took the time to show artists that used the tools across diff genres. well put together! every producer, engineer and vocalist/rapper need watch this video. but by the time u got back 2 ur boy, he's spent bout 1000 bucks. lol.

[PygmyPhallus]

I wonder what it would sound like growling into one of these <_<

[dngcat]

i got a micro korg!!

[dngcat]

you are right it has been abused and overused lol still as producers we have to know how to do it so thnx for the vid

[withghuck]

kanye west uses the "talk box" type sound on his graduation and 808's & Heartbreaks, they dont mention him though...still, really good video

[boblewis666]

I thought it was auto tune he uses?

[AntistarMorok]

An "A"!

[Fobrock10]

what song is this?

[balmyjoey]

I don't understand.  What song?

[Fobrock10]

right at the begining

[balmyjoey]

just some lines I did using some MicroKorg preset.

[jamesmeny]

As a vocal producer, I found this video an excellent resource for my commercial artists. Thanks. Keep it up!

[TeeAreBee]

What about Sweet Emotion by Aerosmith or Man In The Box by Alive In Chains for Talk Box?

[djsugbeatz]

Good Tutorial!

[mikosoft]

I was hoping to hear "Living on a prayer" by Bon Jovi in the talkbox artists sequence. It might not be the first use but I bet it's the one that is the most known (and besides it's the talkbox+guitar combo, not a talkbox+synth)

[TheTruth2life]

What are these things called and were can I buy them !

[dtrtmabp]

Great Video.

[Lestacy]

the autotone totally rids people of actual talent D: it may sound cool, but now practically anyone can "Sing"

[Samsukkaa]

Autotune is so good used like a pro.

[yourspaceproject]

Nice vid! i like the way you did it Shame u missed out Teddy Riley (Blackstreet) for the Talkbox!

But remeber people, always set autotune to the key of the song! otherwise it will just sound really bad.

[BrayHeadQuarters]

t-pain's sound is from a plug-in called Antares Auto-tune

[skipperofarc]

For a more modern popular example of the vocoder, check out Imogen Heap's song "Hide and Seek".

[caseyforever]

i was hoping he'd mention "freekazoids" yay!

this was a fun video. thanks for covering a few of the options and the differences between them. i already knew how auto-tune is used to make that t-pain sound but the vid gives you the feel of the differences and gave me creative ideas. thanks!

[86nigga]

CALIFORNIA LOVE!! XD

[kerbie420]

cool vid, i feel enilightened. i know this is just basics, but thanks.

[simonx49]

glad to see laurie anderson in there

[immortigo]

nice

[Naniyahk]

Wow! Awesome and very informative. Thanks!

[Cazaq]

Oh come on dude , on the Vocoder bit you didn't mention Daft Punk ? wtf?

[shaunoftheundead]

he did mention daft punk in there at 7:23

[Cazaq]

Damn , didn't see them.

[faunflynn]

Back in the day (1990) We got an autotune FX by using a vocoder modulated with a 2nd vocal processed via an eventide clockworks harmonizer.

By '92 we were using a korg VP-5 voice processor and a korg AD (which had the guts of the by then defunct sequential circuits 2000 in it.)

It was all as fiddly as fuck BUT you can get the T-Pain, cher Effect with 2 Eventide 3000 and/or an EMS running in serial.

That's how we used to do this in england in the late 80s/90s

[binarymilk]

You're amazing

[YekelYeke]

Awesome ! TY ! XD

[JustForDima]

This video is great, and very informative. Humor, basic explanations, examples, it's got everything. Thanks for posting this up.

[S70tC6]

wow a well made video! sticks to what's important.

[matijabg]

talkbox...what happens when you say letters which require jointed lips like m, p etc...?

[nevbone1674]

Talk boxes are not meant to put the tube in your mouth the way he did.. you can rest it on the side of your cheek so you can still close your mouth

[pazzion2008]

ehh wut settings were u usin on ur autotune...

[guitarbrad]

This was a good video, you should make more. I've been trying to find decent open source [free] vocoder and pitch correction software online, but can only find a few examples. Do you know of any? What are your best ones?

[boyboy53]

audacity has a lot, then download FL studios demo, then drag the file to the fl demo, then well yeah mess around

[juggaloryda505]

audacity don't have pitch correction or a vocoder fl studio has a vocoder but no pitch correction

[boyboy53]

oh, lol, sorry

[boyboy53]

oh lol sorry

[StevenFigueroaMusic]

anyone good at editing voice something like this for my new upcoming album?

please let me know.

thanksss

[AJPtheMC]

Yo, I could help ya or at least try

[StevenFigueroaMusic]

really? yes thanks

[nevbone1674]

Im good dude.. but I use a cheap program.. check out my songs on my page... and see for urself...

[Stick3x]

Great vid. Looks like you had fun doing it to.

Thanks a bunch:)

[JohnLee1111]

He made it like a little childrens show