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Talkboxing

Theonestarchild

Theonestarchild

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#1
I was talking to my guitarist on the phone, and I was just messing around with my wah, and he asked if it was a talkbox or a wah. Can you play a talkbox on a bass? If so, which model is the best for bass, and how much is it? This got me interested, because I love messing with stuff, and you can mess with a talkbox non-stop.

Thanks
 
#4
The talkbox works by playing your sound through a tiny little speaker which conects to the long vinyl tube you stick in your mouth. You could probably replace the stock speaker/driver with something that can reproduce bass frequencies, but even then the echo chamber of your mouth is probably too small to reflect a solid bass note.

Better bet: vocoder. Lots of multi-fx boxes come with a vocoder patch these days.
 
#5
but you'd need a much larger driver! i don't think you'd be able to reproduce any decent amount of low end with nothing less than a 8" speaker! imagine the size of the tube you put in your mouth!

EDIT: acutally, reading through the link i put up before, that digitech talker might be the way to go with bass...it looks like instead of playing the sound out of a small speaker and through a tube where you "shape" the sound with your mouth, you plug a microphone and the bass into the talker, and talk, gurgle, scream, whathaveyou into the mic, and it mixes that with the bass...hmmm now i kinda want to try the talker!
 
#7
I use a Digitech talker which works well with bass. My band was doing "Do You Feel" "Rocky Mountain Way" and "Sweet Emotion" and I did 'talking solos' on them all. They are gimicky yet very musical!
 
#9
Theonestarchild said:
I was talking to my guitarist on the phone, and I was just messing around with my wah, and he asked if it was a talkbox or a wah. Can you play a talkbox on a bass? If so, which model is the best for bass, and how much is it? This got me interested, because I love messing with stuff, and you can mess with a talkbox non-stop.

Thanks
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I would be well impressed by anyone who could talk box and speak on the phone at the same time. :eek: Guitarists are stupid :D
 
#19
can you record just clean bass through the talker and make it say stuff?

Oh and is it possible to get the same effect that peter frampton gets to make it change sounds (but not talking) by shaping his mouth differently? I know its a mike, but is there any way do you think?
 
#20
bass_drum said:
Oh and is it possible to get the same effect that peter frampton gets to make it change sounds (but not talking) by shaping his mouth differently? I know its a mike, but is there any way do you think?
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I imagine that you'd just say "aaaaaaaaaaa..." (for example) then to change to a "ooo" type sound you'd just say "oooooooooooooo..."

If that is the case, you'll need lungs like the aztec's up in the mountains (I actually can't remember the name of the range :scowl: I feel stupid...)
 

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