Trying to identify this vocal effect

[MrKettle]

I would like to duplicate this vocal effect. I'm not sure if it's a new effect or something that can be done by setting traditional effects (i.e. chorus, flange, etc.) There's a sample here:

It's the female vocal.

 

[bennychico11]

sounds like some sort of reverse effect on the voice. however it might also just be a pitch shift down about 20cents

 

[boingoman]

Yeah like benny said or a slow phaser or flanger....

 

[chessrock]

Sounds to me like a voccoder and/or autotune on an extreme setting ala Cher's 90's hit "Do you Believe."

 

[bennychico11]

Sounds to me like a voccoder and/or autotune on an extreme setting ala Cher's 90's hit "Do you Believe."

you know what...i agree with the autotuner idea. i was thinking they just pitch shifted it, but now it sounds more like the way antares handles things.

 

[DeathKnell]

I've always wondered about this effect myself..

anyone care to shed some more light/details?

 

[DeathKnell]

oh god i downloaded the Antares demo and can't stop singing horrible songs like cher HAHA

 

[MrKettle]

Yep, that's what I was thinking

I knew there was some crappy top 40 song where I heard that effect. I appreciate the feedback.

What is antares?

Is there an autotune or voccoder plug-in for soundforge or cubase that anyone is aware of?

 

[bennychico11]

Antares Autotuner...and yes to this second question

 

[Donnie Barren]

Antares Autotune

Have people in this forum used Antares Autotune for a while? Have you had any trouble with the Pace copy protection that's part of the software?
Thanks.
Donnie

 

[Fletcher]

You can get all kinds of groovy shit from the Dave Smith Instruments "Evolver" http://www.davesmithinstruments.com/other/news.html ... though I doubt that was used on that particular track.

In more than a couple of ways it sounded like a two channel harmonizer doing a couple cents up and a couple cents down... a fairly common trick especially in the R&B world. Could have been an 'auto tune' thing... or that Digitech "Cher" box thing, but it didn't really sound like it to me.