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The vocal effects of Daft Punk
Daft Punk have used a wide variety of vocal effects in their songs. A May 2001 interview in Remix magazine provided a rare insight from Daft Punk themselves on the topic.
I’ve read comments suggesting the DigiTech Vocalist models with the “EX” suffix are special, but nobody seems to know why, and nobody has published a direct comparison to prove or disprove the theory. Even though they’ve been around in a commercial form since the mid 70s, talk boxes aren’t the first device to use human vocal tracts to create robotic sounds — the Sonovox from 1939 takes that prize. I don’t fully understand what went down, but 3db Research was created by ex-IVL staff, and Harman International accused TC Helicon of infringing patents relating to harmonisers.
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