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People who can sing well are rightly treasured by the right-
thinking part of society. While it is far from the be-all and
end-all of vocal ability, vocal range is a desirable quality.
Some people, through a combination of genetics and
training, have the ability to control the voice through
3,4 or
even 5 octaves. Artists at the extremes of vocal range are
often
vulnerable to changing conditions, be that temperature,
humidity, over/under preparation, a slight infection or even
just
age. This can be a problem in live performances, but we can't
do much apart from just cheat there. But what about when
recording new material? Well, the artist can easily have their
vocals "tidied" up by a sound engineer and the ubiquitous
electronic tomfuckery. However, this is often detectable, and
a
vocal artist of integrity* would likely be horrified.
So how do we squeeze another album of vocal acrobatics out
of
our aging megastar? Step into the bs0co Vocal booth. This
remarkable bit of kit is unusually robust in design &
construction due to its origins in the offshore deep diving
industry. The booth/chamber will of course be acoustically
lined
and equipped with the preferred microphone of the artist.
The
artist is ushered into the chamber and the door sealed.
Now the singing begins. The artist is listening to the backing
track, crucially, through bone-conducting headphones and
their
vocal through regular headphones. Can't hit the high-note? No
problem, we open a valve to a helium/oxygen diving gas mix
and now the chamber is about 10% helium. The speed of
sound
in the gas column in the artist's voice box goes up, and the
high
notes come easily. The same can be done in the opposite
direction with an argon oxygen mix.
With care, this can be done rapidly and dynamically, the
chamber's gas mix can fluctuate through the song and so the
vocal range can be manipulated up & down on a breath-to-
breath basis.
What about other aspects of singing? Want to hold a note? The
bs0co vocal booth has you covered there. The chamber is
pressurized to 2 atmospheres of pure O2, as soon as the artist
starts the note, the pressure in the chamber is bled off
toward 1
atmosphere, essentially doubling the lung capacity.
An aging vocal legend would likely love the "leak" of a raw
track
straight from the vocal booth mic... still got it.
*Others are available
Freddy Mercury
https://www.etonlin...0.jpg?itok=8Gq3s4U-
[Voice, May 26 2022]
Frank Sinatra vs Freddie Mercury. Epic Rap Battles of History
https://www.youtube...watch?v=K5a_v0MP_Fk
[Voice, May 26 2022]
High fall intonation
https://www.british...gh-fall-intonation/
[4and20, May 26 2022]
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This would be the world's most dangerous vocal
booth with a mind numbingly high mortality
rate. [+] |
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I'd always wondered how Freddy Mercury hit those high notes; he must
have had the prototype. |
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Whilst I’m pretty sure you can do most of those
things with electronics these days, this is a much
cooler and unique way. Maybe it can do strange
and unpredictable stuff, therefore + |
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And here from the title I thought you wanted to swap out gasses within the recording chamber fast enough to change the singers pitch. |
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//how Freddy Mercury hit those high notes// |
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Can gay men sing in a higher register? I know they used to castrate boys to maintain their high voices. Maybe gay men have some of the same hormonal goings on. |
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//how Freddy Mercury hit those high notes// |
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They weren't particularly high, and what most people think of
with Freddie is the perceived power, and that interesting fast
vibrato. Mainly he was a showman in everything, including
vocals. |
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//I know they used to castrate boys to maintain their high
voices. Maybe gay men have some of the same hormonal
goings on.
// |
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No. Come on. Testosterone and it's downstream
derivatives/related hormones, and crucially, hormone ratios
are responsible, at puberty, with promoting the
development of secondary sexual characteristics. In males,
this is a few things, the adam's apple/voicebox region
enlarges, meaning that on average the tonal range is
shifted down. Being gay may have foundations in
neurology/neuroanatomy but it's fairly obvious from
Freddie's Adam's apple and hairy everything that there's no
difference in secondary sexual characteristics. |
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//he must have had the prototype.// |
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And now he's dead. Coincidence? |
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I don't know about Farrokh but in my experience effeminate men have a higher vocal pitch than strait males. |
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Not all homosexual men are effeminate though. |
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So... the hormonal voice pitch theory bears study... while excluding sexual tendencies. |
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"High fall" intonation is very common in British English. Is it because so many of them are homosexual? |
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