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The vocal effects of Daft Punk

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Re: The vocal effects of Daft Punk

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Post by brudgers »

If you have a vocoder, running a drum machine through the modulator won't sound all that much like daft punk, but will probably sound familiar. And maybe become part of your sound.

If you don't have a vocoder, Behringer recently released one as a Eurorack module for $99. It's fine.

Re: The vocal effects of Daft Punk

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Post by whstl »

ofrzeta wrote: post #5
tecleandor wrote: post #3

Ah, the Sennheiser VSM201. Just a $30K vocoder. Seems like it was $25K when it released in 1977, but also didn't get to sell even 50 units, so quite rare. I guess you can get similar results with cheaper hardware, but if you have money and you have it around... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I didn't know the device. Also I didn't know that Kai Krause who later got famous through his Kai's Power Tools was an electronic music expert who sort of did sales for Sennheiser in 1977, according to this page ( https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sennheiser_VSM_201 - only on the German WP, it seems). He also wrote the manual for it. His German WP page also claims that he sold a VSM 201 to Neil Young in 1982! https://de.…

> His German WP page also claims that he sold a VSM 201 to Neil Young in 1982!

Just in time for https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trans_(album) !!!

Re: The vocal effects of Daft Punk

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Post by rickdeckard »

bongodongobob wrote: post #37
rickdeckard wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

(They also did the Soundtrack for Tron:Legacy, basically their fifth studio album) Anyway, I keep remembering how panned 'Human After All' was, and how bad the reviews were because the album was too "mechanical" and was "missing the warmth of House", while this is EXACTLY how the genre evolved in the years to come and none of those music experts saw this. Many journalists did a retrospective of it a few years later a…

Random Access Memories was such a letdown. It's an OK disco album that doesn't innovate at all. Masterful recording, it sounds great of course, but it didn't take any risks. I listened to it twice and that was it.

Exactly, fully agree. If it would have been released as a Pharrell Williams Album "produced by Daft Punk", it woul have been met with different expectations.

And especially now it would perfectly blend with other Pharrell Williams Albums (i.e. "Happy" could have been on "Random Access Memories" without standing out at all...)

Re: The vocal effects of Daft Punk

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Post by cpitman »

jedimastert wrote: post #17

It is unreal to me the amount of impact Daft Punk had with only four studio albums.

Interstella 5555 is still one of my favorite movies. It's an anime movie where the entire soundtrack is the album Discovery. There are no vocals, the entire story is told by only the animation and music, and it works incredibly well.

Re: The vocal effects of Daft Punk

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Post by kennyadam »

tobr wrote: post #38
philistine wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They did so much more. Thomas made Call On Me, a track he found unsatisfying, and it still ended up as a massive hit because it was stolen from him.

Imagine inventing pumping sidechain compression and finding it unsatisfying.

A YouTube video (that the algorithm loved) about all this and is super interesting: https://youtu.be/wyYAiU4DKUY?si=CpcOuhzAvXs7fqWF
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