How do I get my vocals to sound like "owl city"

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Posted by discobiscuit on Nov-28-2009 00:14:

How do I get my vocals to sound like "owl city"

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

Posted by MrJiveBoJingles on Nov-28-2009 00:52:

What's so special about those vocals? Dude sounds just like Ben Gibbard.

Posted by Magnus on Nov-28-2009 02:39:

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.

Posted by Zombie0729 on Nov-28-2009 03:12:

link?

Posted by MSZ on Nov-28-2009 03:16:

reason powaaaaaa, it seems like hes using expensive hardware on the voice no? some sort of de-esser?

Posted by cryophonik on Nov-28-2009 03:19:

quote:
Originally posted by Zombie0729
link?

I just looked up this one:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aI4JLa0hbUw

Sounds like Cher/T-Pain effect layered in with natural vocals (?)

Posted by MSZ on Nov-28-2009 04:03:

quote:
Originally posted by cryophonik
I just looked up this one:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aI4JLa0hbUw

Sounds like Cher/T-Pain effect layered in with natural vocals (?)

yea it seems you are correct sir , just some vocoder mix

Posted by Morvan on Nov-28-2009 10:08:

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.

Posted by Stef on Nov-28-2009 17:22:

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.

Posted by Magnus on Nov-28-2009 20:05:

"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."

Link to Electronic Musician article: -EM-

Posted by MSZ on Nov-28-2009 20:11:

quote:
Originally posted by Morvan
It's definitely not a vocoder.

Posted by discobiscuit on Nov-29-2009 01:10:

my roomies good friend helped make the "fireflies" video he was very involved in its creation