Can Anyone Explain This Photo?
22Jun09
Image: spuddleyspudd
I’ve got no idea what’s going on in this photo, but it’s electronic and it looks sort of awesome.
If you’ve got an idea of what’s going on here, leave a comment!.
via the Synthtopia Flickr Group
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yo that looks like a sweet midi keyboard and some crazy gas-mask vocal FX going down at the green lanterns house!
I think the Jerry Springer board game in the background is a big clue!
I noticed that too – Jerry Springer's a freakshow, too.
Dressing up in mommy's stuff and posing?
Voice modulation via gas mask/hose? Maybe he wants to sound like an elephant….
It's called using a "mechanical filter" on the microphone. Basically it creates funky phasing/reflections/EQ-funk-u-lizing to the sound before it hits the mic. I think Mike Patton does this live or used to… can't really remember. Had a roommate who talked about it a lot. I think its also something some drummers do so they can sing and thrash at the same time. which sounds awesome.
Sanjay is right its like talking into a pipe, you get some interesting reverb from this. Who knows what kind of post processing is being done, but I would run it through a vocoder after.
I would love to hear what that sounds like – and how useful it might be with the addition of other effects on top. Nevermind the Jerry Springer game.
Ectomorph used to use a toy megaphone (little plastic thing) spoken into a mic for a (similar?) effect. Aux88 used headphones as a mic for effect. And then there's that whole mic-stand Bon Jovi thing…
I guess what I like about this stuff is that it's abstract and creative – always reaching in new ways to make something sound unique.
so lets all sing into our vacuum cleaners!
Its someone cashing in on the masked dj movement.