How to use a Vocoder (to thicken up your Vocals)

In this session, Ken 'hiwatt' Marshall shares ideas on how you can use a vocoder to thicken up your vocals.

Ken will be posting a follow up to this session, by taking a deeper look into exactly how he set's up a Vocoder...coming soon!

Special thanks to Riki for her support and sharing her song ;-) Check out Riki here...

[MarneusAndMilkyBlood]

Such a cool tip! I have to remember that!

[SplotchTheCatThing]

I love vocoders (and I have a number of really good plugins for doing it in slightly different ways) but I normally just use them on their own either to give a whole verse a stranger tonal character or to throw on a few words in between normally-sung lines.
Will have to give this technique a try.

[cloudsavagehenry]

I just fired up my old harmonizer I found on a discount table at the local music shop. I had forgotten how useful they really are.

[nichttuntun]

Works wonders for the vocal track.
Since oder Herbie Hancock and of course Kraftwerk records we all know how cool vocoder are. They are wonderful for sound design.

[maxmatson]

One of my favorite vocoding lines you worked on would have to be "Collision" from download speaking of speaking of vocoding? it'd be a cool topic for you to discuss all three of your electrix modules, or any other effects modules of yours!🙏✋✌

[lukegrochocki]

cool deal! do you think if the artist themselves would have done in the track it would have been more or less effective? or is that part of mixing magick?

[neplusultra]

Can we know the artist yet? I’m in love with that vocal line.

[joehoward]

Ken, maybe I missed it but which vocoder were you using? Thank you!