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Posted: May 14 2007, 18:11

I've listened again to Supernova a few minutes ago, spurred by the comments above. IMHO it's definitely a voice singing the first three notes, followed by a sample of the same voice (see below).  The voice sounds to me very like Mike - just compare this with the "ke" syllable in "Kin-KE-se, key-KE-se" from Altered State, or with the "Woh-oh-OH!" in Heaven's Open. :)

What happens in Supernova, I think, is that Mike sings the first three notes (Woh-uh-oh...), then the last "oh" is sampled, the sample is carried onwards on a synth (with a flute/bagpipe sound on top) and actually played on it - with the keyboard, not pitch-bent. That's why the rest of the passage (four more notes) sounds artificial. But I guess it's really made to sound that way. :D

@ Mat: You're right about Cher, it's the AutoTune plug-in for ProTools. That's how she did that, and that's how Madonna and all the others did that after her. :) I think the producers wanted to advertise Digitech rather than saying what the effect really was...


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Posted: April 12 2009, 10:29

Mike is giving a particular performance in "Five Miles Out".  I think he's trying to impart the feeling of anxiety engendered by nearly dying in an aeroplane in a storm.  He succeeds brilliantly in my opinion.

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Posted: July 14 2021, 03:43

What I have always noted about Mike's "Just hold your heading true..." vocal, is that it sounds like the same take repeated again and again. The sung phrase it about a second long, which is like the maximum sampling time of the Fairlight machine he used.

I agree that it sounds a bit "posh", but it fits the dramatic context of the song. He seemed to prefer the "hesitant" singing style that he used on "Rite of Man"!


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