Acoustic Treatment Necessary with Vocoded Vocals?

[frank1985]

Ok this is probably a dumb Q, but here goes - is acoustic treatment (inc. vocal shields) necessary for vocals that are going to be sent to a vocoder? If the voice is going to be synthesised 100 percent anyway, the recording environment shouldn’t matter so much should it, only the proper enunciation of words (specifically their percussive elements) to make the synthesised voice intelligible...?

 

[Orson]

It would depend on what other noises are being recorded or picked up by the microphone.

Does it sound like you are in a toilet? Can you hear traffic, dogs barking, birds singing or other noise?

If so it may depend on how much you can get away with.

 

[rob aylestone]

My experience is that the way you sing for a vocoder is the critical thing - lots of mouth movement, and nothing to spoil the effect. Those gooseneck mics on the Rolands were pretty grotty mics but worked well with lips right on them.