Walt Disney Main Street Electrical Parade (Vocoder Intro #1)

The intro for Disney's Main Street Electrical Parade, I always liked the sound of the Bode Vocoder original intro from 1979. Well, I remade my own version, using an EMS Vocoder 2000 ********PLEASE NOTE******** I have had quite a few inqueries of how to play the chords to this,,,but, I DO NOT have them since I am not a piano/keyboard/synth player, it was all done sequencing in step written patterns and just took a good guess, SORRY!!

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Music

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• Disney's
• Main
• Street
• Electrical
• Parade
• EMS
• Vocoder
• 2000
• Intro
• Audio

[Littlescienceguy]

I can not tell you how awesome this is! I once thought that it was not possible to hear those types of sounds duplicated again, the way it sounded originally in the 70s and 80s. You have just made me believe again. Thank you so much! I heard a rumor that Jack Wagner had to literally yell into the vocoder to get the announcement to come out right. Did you have to yell into it?

[intromix]

@Littlescienceguy Thanks! Glad u like it, well, you dont necessarily have to yell into a vocoder, depending on the clarity of the particular vocoder. I always thought this (EMS Vocoder) was the clearest sounding Vocoder until I picked up the Bode Vocoder (same one used for the original Intro to the Electrical Parade) and MAN, the clarity and sound on it is just so "In your face" LIVE. Certain Vocoders you have to emphasize certain words, like speaking a "Vocoder Language" if that makes sense

[VoiceEncoder]

Chris, I've been listening to the original Bode 7702 Vocoder versions, and you are playing lower notes than they did. You have the correct ones (as far as my ear can tell), but are an octave lower. They're an octave higher.

[intromix]

Yeah, this was a tough one. Took me a while to adjust my ears to the right chords!

[SONICSATAMJAMER77]

To let you , Disney didnot use the voice intro in 1977 , they first used it in 1979 not 1977.

[intromix]

Thanks for that tip. I just edited the headline, I hope not too many caught on to my WRONG INF0!!

[Littlescienceguy]

@intromix @intromix So cool! And I do understand what you mean. Is that why certain words in the announcement are emphasized? I always wondered about that. Words like imagination, lights, and electrical seem to always be emphasized; but I couldn't imagine the announcement without those words being emphasized.

[zingarzahoy26]

This is better than the old one!

[POWERPUFFGiiRLYx3]

i love this parade :3

[VoiceEncoder]

guess is no to a non-electric (which usually means no output jack) instrument on its own being able to trigger a vocoder. So if you for example want to use a guitar it would have to either be an electric one or an electric accoustic. Not a normal non-electric accoustic. But then again I'm not certain and will leave that up to somone who knows to say.

[VoiceEncoder]

to work. The instrument going into the vocoder needs to have an output jack and be capable of producing a signal. Otherwise it needs to be recorded first, and then input into the vocoder. Since I've only ever had two synths and a small (foot-long) Casio keyboard (all electric or battery-powered) with output jacks, I have no idea if a non-electric instrument can or can't on its own produce the signal necessary for the vocoder. I'll leave that up to someone who knows to answer that. But my...

[VoiceEncoder]

If the saxophone was a normal (non-electric one) then they would of had to make a recording of that. Then they would've taken the tape recorder put a 1/4 inch cord (they may of had to go from 1/8, mini, to 1/4) out the output (which is sometimes the headphones jack) into the intrument (carrier, oscillator) input on the beta EMS Vocoder 2000W MkI. Of course I'm just guessing that non-electric instuments need to be recorded onto a recording device that is electric (or battery-powered) in order...

[VoiceEncoder]

The original with Disney was the Bode 7702 Vocoder. Intromix used his EMS Vocoder-System 2000B MkII (black). The Cylons from the original-series version of BSG (1978-9) used the beta version of the EMS Vocoder 2000W MkI with a saxophone (he didn't specify but I'm guessing an electric one so as to produce a signal for the vocoder, not a synth, according to Mr. Michael Santiago, the voice of the Cylons).

[Disneydanny]

is Cylon the same style used in the announcements heard in the parade itself?