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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (2 children)
  1. Talk Box

Is this how Steve Vai did the talking guitar on Yankee Rose?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Doesn't a vocoder do something similar?

[–] CaptDust 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

They can have similar results, but the approach is different. A vocoder takes two inputs (ie. guitar and microphone) and harmonizes them, outputting a mixed electrical signal after combining. A talk box plays a single input audio (guitar) through a speaker and the sound travels up a tube to the performer's mouth, which the performer uses to shape the sound. The audio is then captured by a microphone.

[–] CaptDust 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Nah that's just him being amazing. Peter Frampton has solid talk box examples

Around 2:30

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (2 children)

A marginally more modern example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQDbr_3di7s

Can't think of any from the 21st century though

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Tool's Jambi from 2006 has one in it:

https://youtu.be/9acDoDUnEdg

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Slash uses one on the first Slash's Snakepit album. I think on the track Lower.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

No mention of the greatest effect of all - the univibe...