- Talk Box
Is this how Steve Vai did the talking guitar on Yankee Rose?
this post was submitted on 01 Oct 2024
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Nah that's just him being amazing. Peter Frampton has solid talk box examples
A marginally more modern example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQDbr_3di7s
Can't think of any from the 21st century though
Slash uses one on the first Slash's Snakepit album. I think on the track Lower.
Doesn't a vocoder do something similar?
They can have similar results, but the approach is different. A vocoder takes two inputs (ie. guitar and microphone) and harmonizes them, outputting a mixed electrical signal after combining. A talk box plays a single input audio (guitar) through a speaker and the sound travels up a tube to the performer's mouth, which the performer uses to shape the sound. The audio is then captured by a microphone.
No mention of the greatest effect of all - the univibe...