Can you "face-lift" your own vocals, technically?

[Martin Lang]

Sometimes you feel that a singer has an uncannily youthful,
well-preserved voice. We all know that voices may be changed over and
tinkered with, engineering-wise, in the studio, so I'd like to know if
it's feasible, these days, to sample old recordings of your own voice
(or just some of the overtones) and then "weld" this into the vocal
track of a new recording in a convincing way. Some kind of aural
face-lift, then.
The idea struck me when I heard Michael Jackson's "Invincible" album.
:-) He's a great singer, whatever else he is, but he does sound almost
too young and funky on this album - after all, he's past 40 and he'd
been through some very tough years.
Of course, any self-respecting record company or artist would deny
that this practice exists, but what if...?

Martin
Gothenburg, Sweden

[Jeffery S. Jones]

Post by Martin Lang
Sometimes you feel that a singer has an uncannily youthful,
well-preserved voice. We all know that voices may be changed over and
tinkered with, engineering-wise, in the studio, so I'd like to know if
it's feasible, these days, to sample old recordings of your own voice
(or just some of the overtones) and then "weld" this into the vocal
track of a new recording in a convincing way. Some kind of aural
face-lift, then.

Practically, I think it would need to be whole phrases. Someone
with loads of unpublished songs recorded could borrow some of that,
mix it with a bit of new work, and do OK.

Post by Martin Lang
The idea struck me when I heard Michael Jackson's "Invincible" album.
:-) He's a great singer, whatever else he is, but he does sound almost
too young and funky on this album - after all, he's past 40 and he'd
been through some very tough years.
Of course, any self-respecting record company or artist would deny
that this practice exists, but what if...?

Why? Haven't you noticed that even dying isn't enough to stop an
artist from putting out new material.

[Dave]

What about Queen's later albums? Freddie Mercury's voice changed so many
times. In the 70's he sounded youthful. In the early '80's, he had a
"booming" voice. In the late '80's, his voice got husky. In his last few
songs, he sounded '80's-ish again.

What do you think?
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- Dave
http://members.cox.net/grundage/

Post by Jeffery S. Jones

Post by Martin Lang
Sometimes you feel that a singer has an uncannily youthful,
well-preserved voice. We all know that voices may be changed over and
tinkered with, engineering-wise, in the studio, so I'd like to know if
it's feasible, these days, to sample old recordings of your own voice
(or just some of the overtones) and then "weld" this into the vocal
track of a new recording in a convincing way. Some kind of aural
face-lift, then.

Practically, I think it would need to be whole phrases. Someone
with loads of unpublished songs recorded could borrow some of that,
mix it with a bit of new work, and do OK.

Post by Martin Lang
The idea struck me when I heard Michael Jackson's "Invincible" album.
:-) He's a great singer, whatever else he is, but he does sound almost
too young and funky on this album - after all, he's past 40 and he'd
been through some very tough years.
Of course, any self-respecting record company or artist would deny
that this practice exists, but what if...?

Why? Haven't you noticed that even dying isn't enough to stop an
artist from putting out new material.
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