Technology for Enhancing Your Solo Performance

Vocal Harmonizers

 

According to tweakheads.com,"A harmonizer is a device that samples incoming audio material and automatically creates several time stretched versions at different pitches and combines them all to an audio output. All of this happens on the fly in real time.  You hear this device all the time on the radio.  Whenever you hear ultra tight vocal harmonies that sound "too perfect" you are listening to a harmonizer at work.  There's also a lot of times where it is at work where it's not obvious.  Harmonizers can be used to thicken, detune and add effects to instruments and can, for the creative, make very strange effects out of any audio material.  You can hear some audio before/after demos at the TCHelicon site." Click Read More to see the rest of this article. 

 

This function is useful to a singer because they will detect what key you are playing/singing in, and produce the notes that go with the what a person is singing (a 3rd above/below the note you are singing).  Most units are designed to be a plug-n-play, have several pre-sets making it easy to start operating, and can store several MB of data on the units themselves.  These devices can also be plugged into computers and interact with software, allowing musicians to create their own songs.  You can see more by clicking on the Popular Products tab.

 

 

Digital Loop Recorder (Loopers)

 

A Digital Looper is a device that allows a musician to record short samples of music or vocals and then repeats the sound until the user tells it to stop.  These are very versatile units and can store several MB of data on the device.  They also allow users to add layer upon layer to sounds they've recorded.  This ability has sparked a new style of creating music where one musician can create an entire song comprised of multiple instruments all by themselves.  To fully understand how this works, click on the Popular Products Tab.