vocal effect (was Re: [linux-audio-user] How to get good vocal sound)

[Lee Revell]

On Wed, 2005-12-07 at 00:34 -0600, Jan Depner wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-12-06 at 14:47 -0500, Lee Revell wrote:
> > On Tue, 2005-12-06 at 06:05 -0500, Bill Allen wrote:
> > > I've been struggling with a technique problem. How do you get your 
> > > vocals to sound good?
> > 
> > Actually this reminds me of something that's been bugging me.  What's
> > that really digital sounding vocal effect that you hear on a lot of R&B
> > stuff these days?  It's all over that tune "I'm Sprung" that was on the
> > radio all summer, and in the Simpsons episode where they have a boy
> > band, on Ralph Wiggum's voice when he sings "love formation".
> > 
> 
>     Cher started that garbage about 4 or 5 years ago - it's pitch
> correction taken to extremes.
> 

Cher could not have been the first to popularize this.  I am pretty sure
that boy band Simpsons episode predates "Believe".

(BTW I can't stand the effect either)

Lee