I think strictly speaking what Zapp used was a talkbox, a microphone placed
inside a conical shell on top of a speaker playing the modulater...
build your own....
http://grandroyal.com/mag/2000/oct/talkbox/build_a_talkbox.php
and 20 years of failure....
http://grandroyal.com/mag/2000/oct/talkbox/
-i
--- Chris Fahey <Chris.Fahey@raremedium.com> wrote:
quoted 19 lines And is that Autotune I smell? Eh?
> > > And is that Autotune I smell? Eh?
> >
> > Ubiquitous ! Abslutely everywhere. Thanks a lot, Cher...
>
> Yeah, it's really sad. The new Squarepusher and the new Daft Punk albums
> both use this vocoder thang, and although clearly the electronic music scene
> (and for that matter the Electro Funk scene, going all the way back to Earth
> Wind & Fire and Zapp) should "own" this sound, I can't help but think every
> time I hear it "Oh, the Cher Effect".
>
> I was so sad to hear Romanthony's voice defiled with that effect. Thanks a
> lot, Daft Punk...
>
> _Cf
>
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