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Thread started 05/24/16 2:55am

bigben07

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Recording the "Camille" vocals process

So how did he record the high pitched "Camille" vocals like from Good Love, If I Was Your Girlfriend etc...? Did he playback the music tracks slowed down at 1/2 speed while he recorded his vocal, thus creating the high pitched vocal when played back at normal speed? Or did he use a pitch shifter f/x processor? I'm asking about the '80's material here. I'm pretty sure from the 90's stuff on it was f/x put on after the fact since technology in the studio grew tremendously by then.

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Reply #1 posted 05/24/16 2:58am

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bigben07 said:

So how did he record the high pitched "Camille" vocals like from Good Love, If I Was Your Girlfriend etc...? Did he playback the music tracks slowed down at 1/2 speed while he recorded his vocal, thus creating the high pitched vocal when played back at normal speed? Or did he use a pitch shifter f/x processor? I'm asking about the '80's material here. I'm pretty sure from the 90's stuff on it was f/x put on after the fact since technology in the studio grew tremendously by then.

Yes, he used the vari-speed on the tape machine.

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