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June 3

Voice modification used in 70's funk songs

There's a kind of vocal modification which appears in some funk songs of the 1970s, for instance Ohio by the Ohio Players and Aqua Boogie by Parliament. It makes the voice sound robotic and weird. What technology was used to get this effect? Lantzy : Lantzy 17:10, 3 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

You're probably talking about a vocoder, though there are other possibilities. A similar effect is produced in a charmingly simple analog way by a talkbox. Modern music inexplicably prefers autotune. Parliament often make use of a friction drum called a cuíca, which is usually compared to the sound of a dog or a monkey.

Actually after listening to the songs I wonder if this is ring modulation. Card Zero (talk) 17:24, 3 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

If you are referring to the high-pitched chipmunk-sounding voice-over on Parliament, that is a character, Sir Nose D'Voidoffunk, created by simply speeding up the voice recording. 12.116.29.106 (talk) 15:59, 7 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

follow-up to uncredited child starlets

I looked at the comments below this video [1]. A user who goes by the name "wonderglory" asked about the two little girls. She got one response from someone named Shalyn Johnson. When "wonderglory" looked at another response, it was from someone named "Jack". "Jack" gave a reference to an interview Eddie Murphy gave on The Drew Barrymore Show. But who was the little girl on Shalyn Johnson's right?2603:7000:8100:F444:DCDD:391A:5DB4:50F1 (talk) 23:46, 3 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]