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grungetele
04.13.04, 3:51 AM
How would they sound like? I am interested in an alesis metavox, as I read good reviews about it, but has anyone here (fiveways or others...) ever tried using their vocoder on guiatr??:confused:
fiveways
04.13.04, 4:22 AM
Originally posted by grungetele
How would they sound like? I am interested in an alesis metavox, as I read good reviews about it, but has anyone here (fiveways or others...) ever tried using their vocoder on guiatr??:confused:

CRAP.

Well, if you want a traditional vocoder sound. You can get away with it but you need hella effects(I used to use a boss bass synth and a PS-3, plus a phaser and a delay to get a OK vocoder sound).
grungetele
04.13.04, 6:11 AM
so it wouldn't be good for creating synth sounds with guitar, would it? thanks for answers!
fiveways
04.13.04, 7:39 AM
Originally posted by grungetele
so it wouldn't be good for creating synth sounds with guitar, would it? thanks for answers!

No, it is terrible for that.
Clayton38
04.28.04, 4:19 PM
Originally posted by grungetele
so it wouldn't be good for creating synth sounds with guitar, would it? thanks for answers!

Complete crap man. I have the Metavox, and in theory thought it would sound like crap. So I tried it, and it was worse than I imagined. Think of a bunch of white noise over your signal... unusable white noise... and there you have it.
Martijn_2M
05.24.04, 4:47 AM
Hey Guys,

I've got a Boss SE-70 that's got a vocoder in it. Not midi controlled but audio controlled. The program includes overdrive/chorus (that I don't use) and the delay (that I DO use).
So the carrier and the source are both audio signals.

When I plug my guitar only the mono input of the SE-70 the guitar is both the carrier AND the source. In other words : the pitch is what I play on the guitar, the sound is the vocoder itself.

I love this sound. It is like a growl with overdrive. Very cool sound for solos or riffs.

I also use the same effects with my bass, which sounds very agressive but still musical (usable!).

(I don't have sound examples online, sorry).

Regards,
Martijn
nailed
05.28.04, 7:00 AM
see: talk box
monkeyspunky
06.10.04, 2:00 AM
indeed