What do you call the thing green day's using?

[caketastydelish]

I feel really stupid for asking this, but what do you call this? From 2:38 to 2:41 his voice changes, and I know it can’t be on its own. He speaks into the mic somehow and it sounds different but what is that thing that he’s using? And doing say something unbearably generic that I would have figured out on my own, such as “some synthesized mic/voice thingy.
And here is the link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4V4c1nsjc9o

 

[Rashiminos]

You know incorrectly.

 

[Kraznaya]

He's ripping off Coldplay, obviously.

 

[amadeus]

God, that guy is like 40... why is he dressing like a 13-year-old?

 

[caketastydelish]

He's ripping off Coldplay, obviously.

If that was supposed to be a joke, ultra-fail. It has absolutely nothing to do with Coldplay other than the fact that Green Day and Coldplay are both musicians.

If its fair to say he’s stealing from Coldplay, its also fair to say he’s stealing from Bach. I bet you didn’t even watch the video. You just saw an opportunity to make a random off-topic Coldplay comment, and seized it.

 

[Fetus4188]

He probably has some sort of distortion pedal.

 

[amadeus]

He probably has some sort of distortion peddle.

The most overused music equipment in the new millennium.

 

[bigdog5994]

who cares its green day for cripe sakes

 

[Fetus4188]

The most overused music equipment in the new millennium.

There are some artists who uses it to great effect, unfortunately most of what we are exposed to is soulless commercialized garbage.

 

[bhsup]

For those others like me who don't know who the hell is being discussed here, wiki links for your benefit.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coldplay

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_day

 

[Nylan]

If that was supposed to be a joke, ultra-fail. It has absolutely nothing to do with Coldplay other than the fact that Green Day and Coldplay are both musicians.

If its fair to say he’s stealing from Coldplay, its also fair to say he’s stealing from Bach. I bet you didn’t even watch the video. You just saw an opportunity to make a random off-topic Coldplay comment, and seized it.

No no, I see the humor.

 

[Fetus4188]

I can see the attempt at humor. The idea of Green Day ripping off Coldplay is absurd. A stab at satirical irony.

 

[caketastydelish]

I can see the attempt at humor. The idea of Green Day ripping off Coldplay is absurd. A stab at satirical irony.

I just don't see the point of even bringing up Coldplay when this thread had nothing to do with them. Next Coldplay post on this thread gets reported. No and if buts or maybes. This thread is about the leader singer of Green Day "changing" his voice through the use of some special machine. Not Coldplay. Period.

 

[caketastydelish]

For those others like me who don't know who the hell is being discussed here, wiki links for your benefit.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coldplay

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_day

If you would would watch the video from the link I provided and wached the parts I told you to watch you would know exactly.

And I can tell you didn't. If you watched the video you'd have realized it has nothing to do with Coldplay. Not even at all.

 

[pau17]

It's a filter effect; there are tons of different things you can do with it but basically it can give the sound that sort of fuzzy analog quality, as if there were a towel over the microphone or something. It's not a distortion effect because that would make the voice have new frequencies it didn't have before; the filter just adjusts what's already there to make it sound duller and flatter (timbre-wise, not pitch-wise).

It's not something on the microphone; someone at the control panel off-stage has to apply it.

 

[Kraznaya]

I can see the attempt at humor. The idea of Green Day ripping off Coldplay is absurd. A stab at satirical irony.

Actually, it was a reference to this epic thread.

 

[bhsup]

If you would would watch the video from the link I provided and wached the parts I told you to watch you would know exactly.

And I can tell you didn't. If you watched the video you'd have realized it has nothing to do with Coldplay. Not even at all.

I saw a band playing a song. I don't recognize them nor the song. The time period you specified had a zoom in on the face/mic and it sounded a hair different, but again not anything I recognized.

 

[Nylan]

I just don't see the point of even bringing up Coldplay when this thread had nothing to do with them. Next Coldplay post on this thread gets reported. No and if buts or maybes. This thread is about the leader singer of Green Day "changing" his voice through the use of some special machine. Not Coldplay. Period.

Both Greenday and Coldplay have been accused of stealing from other artists and Coldplay has used an effect like that in the past, so it is indeed humorous to consider. Also, you like Coldplay, which is more than likely the real reason it was brought up. Your reaction satisfies their intent.

To answer your question, from the parts of the video I listened to, he didn't do anything with a special mic, so there are a few possibilities:

1. It was simply a clip from the album track put through the PA and he was lip synching.

2. The sound engineer played with the levels to over-compress and drop out the bass to imitate a "radio sound" during the song, which is what is done in the studio all the time.

3. He was not actually singing, which is fairly common to do on TV

 

[caketastydelish]

Both Greenday and Coldplay have been accused of stealing from other artists and Coldplay has used an effect like that in the past, so it is indeed humorous to consider. Also, you like Coldplay, which is more than likely the real reason it was brought up. Your reaction satisfies their intent.

To answer your question, from the parts of the video I listened to, he didn't do anything with a special mic, so there are a few possibilities:

1. It was simply a clip from the album track put through the PA and he was lip synching.

2. The sound engineer played with the levels to over-compress and drop out the bass to imitate a "radio sound" during the song, which is what is done in the studio all the time.

3. He was not actually singing, which is fairly common to do on TV

I didn't even consider those three possibillites. Thats very insightful of you.

 

[Nylan]

I didn't even consider those three possibillites. Thats very insightful of you.

Just postulating, but thanks