Hey! In my humble opinion, I guess they made the background vocals in "Doin' it Right" with a vocoder. It sounds too harmonized and "boxy" for being a talkbox or a voice harmonizer, even autotune.
The Steam Machine voice effect is made with the Digitech Talker, using the 'Tazmania' preset on the pedal. Here a demonstration at the end: ru-vid.com3GWTwI8sZ6w
I have a feeling that all the confirmed DP vocals are all just Thomas, even Beyond is just him at a different pitch. The impression I get from the memory tapes released last year was that Thomas was always the more hands on and Guy-Man was there indicating what worked and what didn't. Plus the fact that Fout La Merde only features Thomas is indication to me that Thomas was the vocoder master of the two. Either way great video!
Awesome video, just wanted to point out that Guy has not had any vocal features on any of the albums, most of the lower pitched sections that were pointed out were just Thomas' voice, but played in a lower octave through the various vocoders! Hope that helps clear things up a bit!
very cool!! What about The Weeknd's "I feel it coming" ? they use something similar to RAM, I guess. But maybe you did this video before that song came out.
for "Doin' it Right", They might have used the SVC 350 vocoder as well. I've seen demos of it and it sounds similar to the vocoder used in the song. It might have also been used in "Starboy" and "I Feel It Coming" by The Weeknd for the backing vocals.
Well, if you look at RAM booklet, you'll notice that only Thomas has a vox processor, so technically Guy-Man shouldn't be able to sing any of the songs.
Corrections; Daft Punk didn't use a talk box on any vocals until RAM 1:44 - Daft Punk used a vocoder (the Ensoniq DP-4 multiFX unit's inbuilt vocoder) for Around the World. I can't speak to the validity of it being Thomas in that short video clip, but what we see him using is a vocoder not a talk box (and not the same vocoder used in Around the World). 2:42 - Using a vocoder on Romanthony's vocal makes no sense, as it would mask anything but his pronunciation in modulation over the carrier and negate his singing ability, even used in a layer. One More Time used AutoTune with the Ensoniq DP-4's phaser engaged, along with some heavy compression from the Alesis 3630 and harsh EQ to highpass the low end and boost the mids and treble. 2:54 - There is no AutoTune on Thomas's vocal in Digital Love. AutoTune's effect is produced by cranking the Retune Speed to its fastest value (0ms) and gives a telltale stair-stepping portamento that sounds like it's interrupted by the next pitch. Note that this does not occur in Digital Love, which has the robotic effect all along the vocal's sustain. This is simply achieved by playing the vocal melody on a MIDI controller (keyboard) linked to the Digitech Vocalist, making it force the vocal to follow whatever the keyboard plays. This is all you need for the effect. The same thing was done for the vocals in Something About Us. 3:16 - There's no way to know for certain whether the vocal in HBFS is Thomas or Guy, but given Guy's heavier accent and Thomas's better English pronunciation, I am betting it's actually Thomas. Once again, this is an example of the Ensoniq DP-4 multiFX unit's vocoder, just like on Around the World. It's possible they're using the same carrier, with slightly different EQ to sit the vocals into the mix. The Digitech Talker pedal wouldn't be used until Human After All 3:26 - There is no AutoTune on Todd Edward's voice. AutoTune has limited pitch tolerances (even when used conservatively) that wouldn't allow the variation in pitch present in Edwards's vocal in the song. The vocal effect is just doubling - Daft Punk had Edwards sing the vocal take from start to finish two times, and layered both takes and then panned them to create a stereo image. I'm not confident in any further analysis for Human After All or RAM as I haven't listened much to either album and really only like Homework and Discovery.
Very interesting observations! 1- Looking at it closely, that video doesn’t show a talk box (I thought the mic was a tube) 2- Regarding One More Time, I would’ve thought Romanthony could’ve rerecorded his lines for a second audio track using the SVC-350. But anyways thanks!
