Enjoy the following super creepy video while listening to the nifty pitch shifting tricks.” -Sean Costello, Valhalla DSP. Practically every song on this record uses Harmonizer feedback.
“One of my personal favorite examples of Harmonizer (ab)use is “Duck Stab” by The Residents. The resulting revenue was both a surprise and a boon to our small company. The Eventide H910 Harmonizer effects processor forever changed the complexion of music enabling producers and artists to add texture to their recordings and. Broadcasters nationwide soon discovered that the Harmonizer could be used to lower their pitches to normal while playing the tape a few percent faster and they realized that, for today’s equivalent of $10,000, they could run three more minutes of commercials each and every night without subjecting their viewers to cartoonish screeching. Watching Lucy dash around a bit faster wasn’t particularly off-putting, but the raised pitch of her voice (and Ethel’s) was a problem. In the early ‘70s, the FCC loosened restrictions on how many minutes of commercial time could be aired during a half-hour TV show, and old episodes of shows like I Love Lucy were sped up to free up time for extra ads. It seems that mankind has quite the propensity for using every technological advance, every truly new ‘tool’, in ways beneficial, detrimental and banal. A Force to be Used for Good & Evil or Unintended Consequences
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