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Question: What was used to produce the synth voice
heard 8 seconds into "Sweet Talkin' Woman" and
throughout the song?

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=NNjrBUzXDJk

I've also heard this vocal effect used on pop
radio from the '60s-'70s that I've heard recorded
snippets of.

[None]

thekkkhhhhhhmaaaaah wrote in message
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Question: What was used to produce the synth voice
heard 8 seconds into "Sweet Talkin' Woman" and
throughout the song?

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=NNjrBUzXDJk

I've also heard this vocal effect used on pop
radio from the '60s-'70s that I've heard recorded
snippets of.

EMS Vocorder, probably EMS Vocorder 2000. Yer welcome!

[None]

"None" wrote in message
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Vocorder

Vocoder.

[John Williamson]

On 12/06/2016 01:36, wrote:
Question: What was used to produce the synth voice
heard 8 seconds into "Sweet Talkin' Woman" and
throughout the song?

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=NNjrBUzXDJk

I've also heard this vocal effect used on pop
radio from the '60s-'70s that I've heard recorded
snippets of.

Took me 3 seconds to find this page all about it:-

http://www.jefflynnesongs.com/sweettalkinwoman/

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[geoff]

On 12/06/2016 2:34 PM, None wrote:
"None" wrote in message
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Vocorder

Vocoder.


Beat me to it ;-)

geoff

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John Williamson wrote: "- show quoted text -
Took me 3 seconds to find this page all about it:-

http://www.jefflynnesongs.com/sweettalkinwoman/

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John. "

Exactly what search terms did you use to get that?
Very informative.

[John Williamson]

On 12/06/2016 13:44, wrote:

Exactly what search terms did you use to get that?
Very informative.

John Williamson wrote: "- show quoted text -
Took me 3 seconds to find this page all about it:-

http://www.jefflynnesongs.com/sweettalkinwoman/

Sweet talking woman vocoder did the job, IIRC. But then again, I
recognised the effect....

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John.

[Frank Stearns]

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John Williamson wrote: "- show quoted text -
Took me 3 seconds to find this page all about it:-

http://www.jefflynnesongs.com/sweettalkinwoman/

Not overly familiar with ELO, but I still like to skim such pages, just for
history.

This caught my eye regarding one of the 1977 singles: "USA release....inexplicably
sped up..."

Brought back memories of a single and album I engineered in that same year. The test
pressings of the single came back and something sounded odd -- the songs were a
little higher in pitch and the tempo was a hair faster. WTF???

We went around and around with the mastering house in Burbank, California (we were
up in the Pacific Northwest of the USA). They didn't believe us, tried to blow us
off. Still more discussions over the next several days, some rather heated.

Their engineer said, "The playback was on our new Ampex 445C. What could possibly be
wrong?" (Same as a 440C, just with no record electronics.) "And of course the lathe
strobes perfectly."

Grudgingly, they finally looked into it further. By chance, one of the Los Angeles
Ampex reps came through their lab (who we also happened to know). He put a counter
on the internal oscillator for the capstan servo.

If I remember the numbers correctly, "normal" capstan speed called for a 9600 Hz
reference. The one in this machine was running at 9650. That's roughly a 1/2%
error, and that's about what we were hearing.

Oooooops! There were some red faces at the mastering house. (And horror at how many
sides had been mastered off-speed for other clients that hadn't been caught!)

So the question on this ELO release was whether they'd used the same mastering house
(K&M Records in Burbank), or if Ampex had been shipping 440/445Cs with out-of-cal
oscillators!!

Fun times.

Frank
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