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Re:The vocal effects of Daft Punk by ofrzeta on Monday May 05, 2025 @08:24AM (#43894317)
I didn't know the device. Also I didn't know that Kai Krause who later got famous through his Kai's Power Tools was an electronic music expert who sort of did sales for Sennheiser in 1977, according to this page (https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sennheiser_VSM_201 - only on the German WP, it seems). He also wrote the manual for it.

His German WP page also claims that he sold a VSM 201 to Neil Young in 1982! https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kai_Krause

English WP has less details on that part of his life, especially the VSM 201 :) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kai_Krause

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Re:The vocal effects of Daft Punk by whstl on Monday May 05, 2025 @11:11AM (#43895954)
> His German WP page also claims that he sold a VSM 201 to Neil Young in 1982!

Just in time for https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trans_(album) !!!

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Re:The vocal effects of Daft Punk by ofrzeta on Monday May 05, 2025 @03:00PM (#43898281)
Wow, six of nine tracks with the vocoder. I guess the 25k USD machine had to pay off :-)
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Re:The vocal effects of Daft Punk by marcedwards on Monday May 05, 2025 @08:43AM (#43894486)
Kai Krause wrote the VSM201 manual and helped sell it at Sennheiser?! You’re blowing my mind. I didn’t expect that info today.
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Re:The vocal effects of Daft Punk by tecleandor on Monday May 05, 2025 @09:15AM (#43894787)
Ha! Now that's unexpected!
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