Hey guys I was wondering if anyone could help me get my vocals to sound like the guy from "owl city". I'm trying to figure it out and can't quite get it... I don't think it's perfect pitch or a vocoder I'm pretty sure it's something different
Nov-28-2009 00:14
MrJiveBoJingles
Supreme tranceaddict
Registered: Jun 2004
Location: U.S.
What's so special about those vocals? Dude sounds just like Ben Gibbard.
Nov-28-2009 00:52
Magnus
I'm getting old
Registered: Mar 2001
Location: Seattle, WA
Funny you mention Owl City. Until earlier today I had never heard of the guy that wrote the album or the album itself but I got the new issue of Electronic Musician and it has a whole article on this guy and this album. Although I haven't heard the album yet, I was surprised to read in the article that it was created entirely using Reason and Goldwave.
Sounds like Cher/T-Pain effect layered in with natural vocals (?)
yea it seems you are correct sir , just some vocoder mix
Nov-28-2009 04:03
Morvan
Senior tranceaddict
Registered: Aug 2009
Location: Zurich, Switzerland
It's definitely not a vocoder. It's a pitch-shifter (like cryo said) with reduced vocal modulation, so they probably used Melodyne for this.
Nov-28-2009 10:08
Stef
come @ me bro
Registered: Aug 2007
Location: NYC
I've got the acapella for Hello Seattle and to me it definitely sounds like a vocoder lightly with some of the pitch shifting as mentioned in the previous post.
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Nov-28-2009 17:22
Magnus
I'm getting old
Registered: Mar 2001
Location: Seattle, WA
"Young also relies on Reason for effects. “I put compression on everything,” he says, “and Reason has a reverb unit called the RV700 with a delay that allows you to apply high- or lowpass filtering to the actual slap back. It seems to really create a sense of depth in terms of vocals."
