"Intergalactic" Vocoder?

[Alex E]

What vocoder was used for the voice in "Intergalactic" by the Beastie Boys?

[Pete]

MAM or Next from what I understand.

[Bryce1888]

Sounds like a voice box, and not a vocoder.

[phwb]

I heard the same thing about the MAM or Next! procoder being used in that song. I have it and it certainly sounds that way. I have no idea how voicebox differs from a vocoder other than using a guitar as a carrier signal as opposed to a synth and a tube instead of a an actual mic.

You should be quiet about vocoders though or you might awaken the beast, he's been dormant for almost a month now, wouldn't want him posting 10 different vocoder threads.

[thisispainful]

it is the mam and they are pretty good basic but good.

[Garth A7]

it is the mam and they are pretty good basic but good.

No, it is the Next! (built by MAM). I had (I sold mine) literature from them stating this. The Next! was also used by Daft Punk for "Around The World", same literature.

[elsongs]

What vocoder was used for the voice in "Intergalactic" by the Beastie Boys?

You didn't know? That was no vocoder. That was a guest appearance by Stephen Hawking.

[MissionBrown]

The warp factory does a very very similar sound with its internal oscillator.

[yburn]

You didn't know? That was no vocoder. That was a guest appearance by Stephen Hawking.

He has the wheelchair's joystick hooked up to pitchbend.,..Korg probably set that up for him.

[Altitude]

it is the mam and they are pretty good basic but good.

No, it is the Next! (built by MAM). I had (I sold mine) literature from them stating this. The Next! was also used by Daft Punk for "Around The World", same literature.

Thats the exact same device. Next was a distributor of MAM stuff for the US it just has a different color faceplate.

The VF-11/VOX2 is supposedly a nightmare to get to sound good and it does not have a built in carrier (you have to use an external synth) so dont expect to get that exact sound out of the box

[another machine]

It's MAM VF-11 or a Next! VX-11, which are the same thing as Altitude wrote.

Anyway as VSE says about the MAM, "The VF-11 has its very own, albeit very simple, analog VCO to use on the Synthesis channel in lieu of external audio". This is true also for the Next! VX-11 (which I own). I think that for Intergalactic Beastie Boys used the internal VCO only. Fiddling with the VCO pitch knob while talking in the mic will give you the same effect as you can find in their song.

[Altitude]

I stand corrected, The only piece of mam rack gear I have never owned

[Pete]

A talkbox operates on very different principles than a vocoder. Audio (vibrating air) is fed into your mouth through the tube. You shape the audio with your mouth just as you would shape the vibrations coming from your on vocal cords.

[GooGoo]

I 'm sure It was a Boss VT-1

[Alex E]

What vocoder was used for the voice in "Intergalactic" by the Beastie Boys?

You didn't know? That was no vocoder. That was a guest appearance by Stephen Hawking.

Haha, well, I think Steven Hawking sounds much more like Macintalk Fred. In fact, people often use that voice if they want to impersonate him on TV shows. Like Family Guy and The Showbiz show, for example.