Yeah, but here:
http://www.westcoastsongwriters.org/ImogenInterview.htm
She describes it as a harmonizer.
Probably figures the terminology isn’t that important depending on who
she’s talking to but from what I hear it seems like she uses both
depending on what she’s trying for.
-----Original Message-----
From: Jon Southwood
[mailto:jsouthwood@gmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, July 11, 2007
11:55 AM
To:
Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com
Subject: Re: OT: Vocal Harmonizer
recommendations?
An
excerpt from an on-line interview with her:
--begin clip
Hide and Seek is a fantastic track, but
also a brave choice for a single in a way, because it only features your voice
fed through a vocoder. Was that a brave move do you think?
Yep! It is quite brave isn't it! But I really didn't expect it to have that
effect. Actually that's not true- I knew that if people heard it, because it's
so unusual, and it's like a hymn, it's not any particular genre, so the fact
that Radio 1 has picked up on it is amazing, because obviously more people can
hear it. I think it started in a way because Jo Whiley is a fan of the O.C.,
and so she played it, but then people like Zane Lowe and Scott Mills, they
never watch the O.C.
How many vocal layers are there in the
track roughly?
Well there's actually only two real mes in there at any one point, and then the
rest of it is going through the vocoder. It was a real magical mysterious
evening when it came out of me. I'd had a bit of a nightmare in the studio that
day, and everything was playing up. I didn't want to leave the studio without
something to say for myself. Also because I had people on the blog that I had
to prove that I'd done something that day! So I picked up the vocoder, which I
hadn't really used much, plugged it into the minidisc, just to record whatever
came out. And literally the whole song (apart from the lyrics), the exact
melody, the exact timing of the breathing and everything, the two melodies
coming in together at the end, all happened in the space of like ten minutes. I
really love the song for that reason as well. I didn't have to slave over it.
There are some songs that I find it difficult to listen to, because I remember
it took me however long to sort out that chord or whatever, but Hide and Seek
was like a dream come true.
---end clip
As Jeff mentioned, she doesn't identify the vocoder, but she leaves no doubt
that it was a vocoder and not a harmonizer. The full interview can be found
here:
http://www.pixelsurgeon.com/interviews/interview.php?id=200
Cheers,
Jon
On 7/11/07, Mark Sottilaro < sine@zerocrossing.net> wrote:
I'd bet money on the fact
that Imogen Heap is using the latest version of this technology. I saw
her live and she sounded great. I say, if you know what she's using,
speak up. That's the model to buy. Also, I think she used combos of
harmonizers and vocoders during different tracks.
Mark
