Planetary Duality Vocoder

[thePHexperiment]

Hey guys, any advice on making a vocoder similar to the one on The Faceless's Planetary Duality? Youtube link below for anyone unfamiliar. Vocoder is by itself at 3:49. The biggest problem I'm having is getting the words to stand out. Thanks in advance!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k2UNXm_2yH0

 

[nezvers]

well, for start - which vocoder are you using?
most times it's needed to boost hi-end on voice that's going into vocoder.

 

[Jormyn]

- As nezvers said, try fiddling with some high-end EQ on your vocal track. Most vocoder plugins I've used have a set of EQ sliders for each octave in your voice signal... I usually cut out the one around 4k so there's no ice-pickiness, but keep the other high bands up.

- Make sure you're using a synth with lots of spectral content. The "noisier" your synth is, the more there is for the vocoder to work with.

 

[Terminus]

You could probably get close with any decent vocoder plugin out there. I use the TAL Vocoder for some of these songs (and I double-track vocal harmonies on all of it so it's not just one vocal part):

http://thisisthetide.bandcamp.com/album/tidal

Just make sure you are pronouncing the words well enough, sometimes you really have to over-pronounce to get it to be understandable.

There are plenty of vocoders out there aside from the TAL one. I have two go-to vocoders, the TAL and this one:
http://create-music.net/pif-media-technologies-pif-vocoder/

Both are freebies and seem to do fine for what I want. You just have to learn the plugin and tweak stuff. Also RTFM, obviously.

 

[thePHexperiment]

Right now I'm using the Waves Morphoder and it's not really doing it for me. I'll try boosting the EQ and messing with TAL and PIF. Thanks guys!

EDIT: Guess I won't be using PIF. Forgot to specify I'm on a MacBook Pro.

 

[Terminus]

I did a quick search and found a list with some mac-compatible vocoders on it

http://bedroomproducersblog.com/201...ee-vocoder-vstau-plugins-for-windows-and-mac/

Maybe one of those will help you out.