Talk Box

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Talk Box

Odd little 70s thing used by Peter Frampton, Joe Walsh, Aerosmith, and Alice in Chains. Basically, a talk box is a powerful speaker in a box attached to a tube that you stick in your mouth. You play while mouthing words into a mike, shaping the guitar sound with your lips and tongue. Sounds like the guitar is talking.

Skip sez, "A lot of electro bands these days use a vocoder, though (for vocals), which I know you know is similar, like The Faint and their album Danse Macabre and bands like Soviet."

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