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Auto tune vocal effect ?
Auto tune vocal effect ?
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Shredder
390 posts
Jan 19, 2014
8:33 PM
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Been covering "Rocky mountian way" with a band I'm playing with. Been using my Maxon auto wah, mind bender & dd7 delay pedal and playing thru an ultimate 57 mic. with good results for the talk box part of the song. It still could use some enhancment to my ears. Thought combining the TC helicon Auto tune voice effect might be the ticket.
Any one out there played harp thru one and was the effect noticeable. I've tried diffrent effects before and some don't carry over to harp very well.
Just wondering?
Mike
Last Edited by Shredder on Jan 19, 2014 8:34 PM
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Brendan Power
415 posts
Jan 23, 2014
6:17 AM
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@ Shredder: I have the TC Helicon Voicelive Touch, and sometimes use its auto-tune feature for harp on my live gigs (I call it the "Cher Harp" sound, since she made it famous for vocals).
Two applications are good, I've found:
1. CHORDS
If you set the key you want and keep the harp in the lower range, you can get very sweet chords of up to four voices from a single note on the harp. There is no other way you can get these chords from a 10 hole or chromatic harp. I find just 2-3 voices are best though.
2. FALSE BENDS
One fascinating feature of auto-tune is that it gives you 'false' bent notes. Check out the song below, which is in G. I have the scale set to G major on the VLT. When I bend the 2 draw down to F on the harp, the VLT calculates that the note should be E (since there is no F natural in the G scale). Because the amplified volume is louder than the acoustic sound, even though I'm bending to an F acoustically, the note that I and the audience hear comes out as an E!
It's weird at first but pretty cool when you get used to it. I use it quite a bit on the solo harp parts, and there is auto-tune on the vocals too:
The harp is a custom "Lucky Thirteen", which I make by combining a standard C harp with the lower three holes of a Low C. It gives you a doubled lower octave, like the SBS. The tuning higher up is PowerBender.
Last Edited by Brendan Power on Jan 23, 2014 7:12 AM
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rainman
122 posts
Jan 23, 2014
6:28 AM
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My goodness Brendan What can't you do? :) Good stuff!
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DoubleJ
31 posts
Jan 23, 2014
6:35 AM
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Thx for posting Brendan.
I just purchased the VoiceLive GTX to explore new harp horizons. You have confirmed the possibilities.
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