Altered Voice
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Songs for which a singer's vocals have been altered, apart from subtle, run-of-the-mill autotuning.
Majority or theme of song[edit]
- '85 Radio Special Thank You - Time shifting
- Announcement B - Ring modulation on Flansburgh's voice
- Announcement G - Heavy echo and reverb on Flansburgh's voice
- Announcement Q - Pitch shifted up
- Baroque Hoedown - Vocoder
- Bastard Wants To Hit Me - Heavy pitch correction, AutoTune
- Be Patient - JF's voice slowed down a bit
- Chicken And Ice Cream - Vocoder
- Crushed By Dust - Pitched up and distorted sections
- Didn't Kill Me - Sped up slightly
- Dig My Grave - Distortion effect
- Dollar For Dollar - Reverse reverb
- Dog Walker - Formant shifting and pitch shifting
- Door To Door Minotaur - Various voice effects and slowed down
- G-L-O-ckenspiel Intro - Vocoder
- HAEC QVOQVE EST RES - Vocoder
- Historical Landmarks - Echo
- Hovering Sombrero '05 - Pitch-shifted and EQ'd chorus effect.
- I Am A Robot - Pitch shifted
- I Broke My Own Rule - Reverse reverb
- I Can't Feel My Arm - Vocoder
- I Love To Sing - Jedediah Deeply
- I'm Def - Time shifting
- John Postal - Formant shifting
- Last Wave (Alternative Version)
- Mario Speaks
- Miniature Sidewalk Whirlwind
- Monsters Of Mud
- Mysterious Whisper - Pitch-shifted
- Outboard Part Of Man - Time shifting
- O We - Pitch-shifted
- Puppets Gonna Fuck You Up - Jebediah Deeply
- Robot Parade - Vocoder
- Rolling O - Pitch-shifted
- Sammy Intro
- Shape Shifter - Formanted
- (She Was A) Hotel Detective (1985 Demo)
- (She Was A) Hotel Detective In The Future
- Somebody Stole My Hairstyle - Distortion
- Somebody Took My Eyeball - Vocoder
- Stomp Box - Distortion effects on Linnell's voice
- Too + 3 R One - Pitch-shifted like there's no tomorrow
- The Greatest - Sung through telephone
- The Vowel Family - Flansburgh's voice is pitched up for the "Vowel Family's' lines
- Twisting (Remix)
- Why Did You Grow A Beard?
- Whence That Wince - AutoTune
- Window
Briefly used[edit]
- A Self Called Nowhere - Phase/flange during one of the last choruses
- Alarm Clock Catastrophe - The “ding-a-ling” parts are pitched up
- Alphabet Lost And Found - Vocoder on the pre-chorus
- Broke In Two - The very last "I'm an orangutan"
- Cage & Aquarium - Last 2 choruses
- Can You Find It? - Linnell's voice is pitched up as "D" and pitched down as "W"
- Chip The CHiP - Chip's voice in the bridge
- Circular Karate Chop - The voice of the sensei
- Cyclops Rock - Distortion during chorus
- D & W - Linnell's voice is pitched up as "D" and pitched down as "W"
- Dan Vs. Cog - Vocoder for Linnell's part
- The Darlings Of Lumberland - Flanger for chorus
- Devil Spawn
- Doom Doom - Pitched up and distorted sections
- Doris Cunningham (WFMU Demo) - Strange "awwwww" sounds during a portion of the interview
- Electric Car - Vocoder in the background joining Robin on the last syllable of each line in the verses
- Electronic Istanbul (Not Constantinople) - Vocoder
- Fibber Island - Pitch-shifted Flans represents kids and a deeper-voiced singer
- Good To Be Alive - Vocoded accordion punching up the verses ("inspecting," "reflecting," "hand") and adding "yeah"s to the last two choruses
- Hate The Villanelle - Fourth stanza
- Havalina - Vocoder for the repeated word "Havalina"
- Here In Higglytown - Pitched up for the line "Our heroes!"
- How Many Planets? - Vocoder for Jupiter
- Impossible - Pitch-shifting on "Doh-doh", flanger and distortion effect on the "octo-flange" line
- I've Got A Fang - Just before the instrumental break, Linnell's voice is slowed way down, and then sped back up before the final verse
- Kids Go! - Different exhortations such as "Move like a monkey" are heavily processed
- Lie Still, Little Bottle (Demo) - Strange time-shifted scatting noises during the break
- Man, It's So Loud In Here - Vocoder on the "Man, it's so loud in here" background vocal; AutoTune is also briefly used
- Mr. Mischief Night - Used in the backing vocals in the latter half of the song.
- My Man - Vocoder harmony vocal by Linnell during the ocean simile parts
- Nanobots - Vocoder on Flans' backup in chorus
- Old Pine Box - Vocoder and formant shifting in the bridge
- Photosynthesis - Vocoder for verse
- The Secret Life Of Six - Pitch-shifted Flans: down for when Six pretends he's Nine, up for Nine pretends he's Six
- She Was A Hotel Detective - Pitch-shifted Linnell for the chorus
- Skullivan - Linnell's voice is altered for the part sung as Skullivan
- Sleep - Chopped up vocals
- Then The Kids Took Over - Spoken word bridge
- Thermostat - Flanging during fadeout
- They Might Be Giants - During fadeout
- Thinking Machine - Vocoder Flansburgh harmonizes "What does it mean?"
- Through Being Cool - Linnell's voice is occasionally distorted in the verses
- To All The Girls I've Loved Before - Vocoder
- Tractor - The backing vocals on the chorus use altered voice.
- Tubthumping - Kaoss Pad vocal effects for Linnell's part
- Turn Around - Linnell has confirmed that his voice was sped up for the backup singing parts in the final iterations of the chorus
- Unpronounceable - The "vocals" during the bridge and in some portions at the end are heavily distorted and chopped
- Wearing A Raincoat - Ring modulation on the "Demanding constant attention" section
