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I'm looking for this sound that producer Teddy Riley use on a song (vocals), I don't know if its a instrument or what, it sounds like a robotic sound like. It also can be use on Live performance, I see him use some type of hose in his mouth, while he's singing. If anyone understands what i'm talking about, please tell me what it is, and the name?
 
It's called the Heil TalkBox.

You run the sound-source (guitar, keyboard, etc.) into the TalkBox and the sound comes out of a tube. Then, you put the tube in your mouth and form the words as the sound-source is playing. By running the tube up the mic stand (next to the mic, of course) you get that really cool effect that Peter Frampton and Joe Walsh made famous.

I've used my TalkBox as a "wah wah" effect for a guitar track on one of our songs. Click on the little "website" button at the bottom of my post and listen to the song "Doin' Nothin".
The solo part is done with the Heil TalkBox.

Buck
 
Nope. You can get similar results with a talk box and a Vocoder, but they're different. My guitar player uses an old one, and it's a pain. It's noisy, and get gets shocks occationally. It's a horrible rickety old thing. I'm told you can get newer designed units (not by Heil), but I've never seen one.
 
That reminds me of the time when our light engineer had one of those things they stick in your arm for liquid / blood in the hospital. He stuck the point in the guitar players tube, and fed it with bursts of helium when he used it. Can you imagine the effect???
(he never dared to tell him)
 
I'm curious, Seanmorse...

How do you get shocked from a TalkBox, when the only thing you're touching is the plastic tube? Since when does plastic conduct electricity?

Am I missing something here? :confused:
 
about the helium...

I'm guessing it had NO effect on the talkbox guitar sounds, as the pitch is controlled by the notes played on the guitar.

Now when he started to sing.....:eek:

Queue
 
LOL Queue has got it :D :D :D

his first thing was just playing and 'noising' along ---- a couple of notes and he stepped back from the mic to listen to his amp, with a very confused look on his face, then briefly stopped playing, and sang something to himself.

Then back to the mic ---- a couple of notes and he stopped, turned, put 2 fingers in his ears and sort-off popped them in-and-out, then checked the tuning.

Again - and it was normal, so he carried on with the performance. Then came the bit where he sang words it. Total complete confusion set in, you've never seen anything like it. Then he just forgot about using the thing and carried on.

Everyone knew, the other band members, the whole crew. They all kept straight faces somehow. Eventough it took a load of effort from those on and around stage. It was in the Sydney Exhibition Center, so a 10.000 plus audience.

The player was brilliant, but completely impossible to work with, rude, bad tempered, nasty. This was a small revenge :) It was wicket!!
 
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