This post will NOT tell you how to sound like T-Pain. Sorry, but it’s too easy – all you need to do is buy a copy of the iPhone App that the man himself is plugging to death in the video above.
This post is to say – why the hell would you want to sound like T-Pain in the first place, anyway ?
OK, silly question – he’s a rich, famous, successful and talented musician. But there seems to be an obsession with emulating his highly processed vocal sound – WHY?
Then rush over and download the demo of PhotoSounder because really, are you going to see anything cooler this week ? And at that price ?
PhotoSounder uses an idea that I first came across on the Audio Cookbook blog – processing audio files using Photoshop - but this video just makes it leap off the screen at you. In essence it’s simply a Spectrogram in reverse (here’s a great example of that), but that description hardly does justice to some of the amazing sounds and the images that “seeded” them here.
I particularly love the fact that a beautiful fractal image like the one at 0’40″ also sounds beautiful and fascinating – but my favourite is the second example in this video.
Taken from the fantastic DVD “Classic Albums: The Making of The Dark Side of the Moon“, this clip has loads of great things for audio geeks like us to enjoy, including (probably) the first time a band ever played to a tape loop (and how the loop was made), another great example of double-tracking (this time on a guitar solo) and a superb illustration of how quite extreme-sounding delay and reverb (on Gilmour’s vocal) sound great in the context of the whole mix.
The DVD has been in the Production Advice Bookstore since I first set up the site, and is strongly recommended viewing for anyone interested in writing, recording and mixing.
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