Harmonizer
Harmonizer is a protected term of the US company Eventide for a feedback pitch shifter . The harmonizer is one of the effects devices in a rig .
functionality
With the help of a harmonizer, complex sounds can be created from a single tone . If the pitch shifter is set to the interval of a large second and fed back relatively strongly to its input, a sound of stacked seconds is created that contains the whole tone scale . Even micro-clusters can be created so; In addition, any transposition up or down is possible. In pop music , harmonizers are mainly used to simulate sentence singing . In Death Metal it was sometimes used to create a sound similar to the typical Death Metal growl , a kind of deep, guttural roar. The use of harmonizers, however, was considered by many death metal fans as an indication of a lack of ability to bring this style of singing to natural means.
The harmonizer is usually combined with a keyboard on which the chords or polyphonic sentences that should ultimately sound are played. Good harmonizers also allow changes in the formant range of the human voice, so that a female voice sounds like a male voice - or vice versa.
Musicians who use a harmonizer include Kanye West , Bon Iver , James Blake, and Jacob Collier .
The sound of a harmonizer is sometimes similar to that of a vocoder and is sometimes confused with it.
Harmonizer in mechanics
In mechanics, Harmonizer refers to software from Manufacturing Laboratories Inc. protected under US Pat. No. 5,170,358. The purpose of the software is to quickly determine the ideal speed of an end mill tool in metalworking by analyzing the frequency spectrum of the emitted sound.
literature
- Michael Dickreiter, Volker Dittel, Wolfgang Hoeg, Martin Wöhr (eds.): Manual of the recording studio technology. 8th, revised and expanded edition, 2 volumes, Walter de Gruyter, Berlin / Boston 2014, ISBN 978-3-11-028978-7 or e- ISBN 978-3-11-031650-6 .
