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What was old, is new again. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk_box https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk_box In 1939, Alvino Rey, amateur radio operator W6UK, us
by buildsjets 3y ago
What was old, is new again.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk_box https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk_box
In 1939, Alvino Rey, amateur radio operator W6UK, used a carbon throat microphone wired in such a way as to modulate his electric steel guitar sound. The mic, originally developed for military pilot communications, was placed on the throat of Rey's wife Luise King (one of The King Sisters), who stood behind a curtain and mouthed the words, along with the guitar lines. The novel-sounding combination was called "Singing Guitar", and employed on stage and in the movie Jam Session, as a "novelty" attraction, but was not developed further.
- yowlingcat 3y agoThese are not the same thing. A vocoder or talk box effect modulates an input signal with a carrier signal. It doesn't actually digitally synthesize sung speech from scratch. Singing synthesis is different, most notably through Vocaloid. It's like a piano roll for singing. With Vocaloid, you can use preset voices, input MIDI notes and words/lyrics, and actually synthesize the sung speech completely in the box, and with significantly more realism based on how the synthesizer has been specialized to do that exact task. It lets a songwriter who is not a singer to write songs with full vocals and instrumentals that they wouldn't be able to do otherwise, in the same way that a DAW/midi sequencer enables a different way of writing music that doesn't require it to ever be played to exist.