Ever try to mimic a human voice with your guitar?

[Sub1 Zero]

I am trying to transpose a song with a lot of choir stuff to guitar, and man is it fun!
Anyone here ever tried something like this? I am still farting around with my settings trying to find the right lyrical tone...

 

[candid_x]

I am trying to transpose a song with a lot of choir stuff to guitar, and man is it fun!
Anyone here ever tried something like this? I am still farting around with my settings trying to find the right lyrical tone...

Definitely! I think many do it subconsciously. I also am inclined to go toward trumpet tones, which was my first instrument. Also subconsciously.

 

[Sub1 Zero]

hey a fellow trumpet player still play?

 

[JSX]

Steve Vai is good at making his giutar sound like a human, you might want to try and get his tone, you'll need about 50,000 pedals but its achievable

 

[Rossie]

I use talkbox for that...


Anyway, a humanizer could do the trick...

 

[Tim O'Sullivan]

I think any wah should get you somewhere close me thinks....

 

[candid_x]

hey a fellow trumpet player still play?

Naw, I gave it up for guitar when I was 21.

 

[Sub1 Zero]

The thing I am looking for is not so much to sound like it's talking, but for a lyrical tone that kinda sings out.

@ candid: I was the high note guy, and played lead trumpet in jazz ensembles in school for a while, and found myself getting burned out on it. The high school I played at, we won state marching band and jazz band titles all the time, then I ended up going to a competitive college.... I lost sight of the fact that it's supposed to be fun, not just to win a contest. It was constantly win this win that and it got old after about 5 years. After not touching it for about a year, I plan to start playing with the wind ensemble at my community college.

 

[Astrofreq]

I have enough trouble mimicking a guitar player.

 

[candid_x]

hey a fellow trumpet player still play?

Here's a brief clip, recorded on a 2 track Akai, back in 1974. I didn't intend for it to sound like my trumpet, but...

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[banjoplayer]

I have enough trouble mimicking a guitar player.

LOL

 

[Lou]

Talk Box?

 

[Sub1 Zero]

What I mean is not speech or mimicking spoken words, but the tonal aspect.

 

[Rossie]

Understood...
Something like JP's Wishful Thinking...
Very "lyrical", at least to me...

 

[RichW]

This thread instantly made me think of the whole scene Vai often creates at the beginning of a show; those slides, the guitar 'teasing' the audience with an almost voice-like quality to the sound. I think that's as close as you can get to mimicking a human voice tonally.

 

[Dizzy]

Apparently Foggy's air guitar sounds JUST like a human voice ;

"joog-joog-rowl-rowl-joog-joog-widdly-widdly-widdly"

Hope he doesn't lose that superb talent with the arrival of the Dargie !