Vocoding drums, etc.??

[Mountainmirrors]

I've been hearing a lot about vocoders lately. I know they can be used to robotize vox and such (I tried it with CEP's vocoder effect with no success...doh~!).

I heard a few people mention their usefulness on drums...
does anyone have experience with that, and where can I hear an example of what it can do to drums?

 

[eeldip]

let me see, cant think of examples off hand, but vocoding drums sounds pretty good. kinda dance musicy in a boring way sometimes, but you can mess around with it and get some fun stuff going. turn your radio to a house music station and you will hear that effect eventually.

my band used a vocoder to save a bad snare track.... the snare dropped out of tune during a song, and sounded really flat. mixed the original signal with a vocoded version of the snare, synth set to the root note of the song, and bam, right back to life.

i think what you need to do is find a vocoder and play with it. they do all sorts of things beyond "robot voice".

all they do it take the timbre of one instrument, and apply that to the pitch of another instrument- in a sometimes wonderfully imperfect way. so you can take the timbre of the drums and apply that to the notes of a guitar.

anything you want. some of it will sound like shit, but .. you know. experiment.