Dude whispering = passing noise through formant filters is mindblowing and is a perfect way to drive the point that the formant is independent from the pitch of the sound. Thank you so much for this video!

I was so frustrated trying to find a video that explained formants, and no video I found gave an actual definition or explanation of what a formant was. Even if others could define it, I need to see the actual science behind it. I need to understand how it applies to actual speech, not just in theory. In the literal first 10 seconds, you defined it, AND explained it, something NO ONE ELSE could do. Thanks from a speech therapy and audiology student!

This is by far the best video I've found on youtube explaining formants. It also explains to me how in the Jonny Depp Willy Wonka movie, they managed to make some of the oompa loomps sound like a very small person with a deep voice. That's how I'll think of it from now on, formant is like adjusting the size of the person, lower formant, bigger person, higher formant, smaller person. It's a good concept to keep in mind, because I raised the pitch up, and lowered the formant and it sounded like a giant woman. whereas if you raise the formant, and lower the pitch, like I said it sounds like the oompa loompas that were 2 feet tall but had really deep voices.

Marvelously clarifying demonstration of formants. Thank you!!

I'm doing a research on linguistics and this is the best video on formants i've seen so far, helped me a lot! Thanks!!

Because of the high singing formants, the type of the singer's voice can be accurately determined. Frequency of typical high singing formants and voice type: 3500 Hz Soprano 3200 Hz Mezzo-soprano 3000 Hz Contralto 2700 Hz Tenor 2500 Hz Baritone 2300 Hz Bass It happens that a singer can have several high singing formants. Then the voice acquires a higher timbre "than it should be". For example, a contralto (typical HSF 3000 Hz) with an additional HSF 3500 Hz and above will sound like a soprano by ear, but in terms of pitch characteristics (range, register transitions) and frequencies, this is a real contralto ...

I've been in the audio field for 8 years now and all of this is new to me. All of it. I've learned so much. Thanks

What really helped me understand formants was in the context of pitch shifting. Making a distorted sound and then shifting the formants back to something normal is a fun experiment to try.

This is a resonance phenomenon. Sounds are "colored" by overtones (harmonics). Only again the mystery has not been revealed: why the most harmonious ("euphonious") intervals are those whose frequencies correlate like small numbers. 2: 1 is an octave, 3: 2 is a fifth, 4: 3 is a fourth, 5: 4 is a major third, 6: 5 is a minor third, 8: 5 is a minor sixth, 5: 3 is a major sixth.

did not expect sudden comedy gold towards the end. also thanks. now i know how to make a homunculus inside ableton's analog synth.

One of the The Best KZfaq Videos I Have Ever Watched

Vocal tracts on vocal tracks! Thanks for the explanation, great upload 👍

Started listening to this confused as heck! Now I finally get what I was trying to understand in the first place, which was formant shifting. Thanks so much! I got everything I needed to know out of this and more.

Exactly what I was looking for and very informative, even taught me more about vocoding!

Damn, there's so much possibility in this when it comes to mixing. Not a new idea, but definitely a new light. Glad I happened across this. Appreciate the topic's presentation. HNY

An incredible video. Should have way more views. It’s a shame videos about creating 808’s that sound like every other song out there have more views than content like this. Thank you!

Now I know why Daft Punk was in my recommended after I looked this up. Thank you!

Im not the only one to say this but absolutely the best tutorial on KZfaq! a lot of the times KZfaqrs try to come off as these all knowing Gods and the important info gets lost in their explanation. this was just great.

I see people finding this video useful in different domains, this is fascinating. I found it mind opening also, thank you a lot!

And now I understand how a lot of the features on the Infected Mushroom Manipulator plug-in works. Thanks!

Really great video! Fascinating and the best explanation of Formants I've seen. Thank You!

This was the first video I found on the subject and didint understand anything, after a bit of research this video became extremley powerful!

Thanks from Empalme, Sonora, México.

When you came to whispering, it clicked in my head... It is so clear now!

Fantastic demonstration, thanks a lot!

Wow this video is awesome, and has inspired me to do more research. I’m a dubstep producer, so I’m always making vocal sounding synth basses. I do this by essentially taking a synthesised sound (usually something a bit noisy/aggressive) and filter it, in a variety of ways, targeting and boosting/removing certain frequencies and then ‘programming’ these filters to move to sound a little bit like speech. It’s one of my favourite things to do, but I never truly understood why that worked until now. Thanks heaps! Same phenomenon with the wah wah pedal on guitar

Holy shit how have I never known about this?! I've been a producer for years and never seen this. This is awesome, thank you!

Absolutely brilliant video. Perfectly simple and informative.

Dude you explained it so well, and I laughed so so hard at the end when you kept explaining things demonstrating them with da vocoder on

Thanks for this video, very clear! Greetings from Buenos Aires.

Damn this is soooo good! I'm so happy it was the first search result, otherwise I would've wasted my time :D Thank you, Sean!

Well, that was a really good explanation. So simple to understand. Thanks!

Wow! Excellent explanation and demonstration. Thanks for that!

I whole heartedly thank you so much for creating this video. I am studying Melodyne Vocal Plugin & it has a Formant Changing tool. I am very satisfied with the knowledge you shared. God Bless You.

Learned a huge amount, thank you do much!

I have played around a lot with sound and spectrums using audacity. Now I will start adding observations with sonic visualizer as well.

Awesome explanation, thank you so much!

best video around about this topic. great job

Brilliant explanation and demonstration!

This was super helpful! Well explained, thanks much👍🏼

Extremely insightful !!

Very good explanation! I’ve been singing for quite a while but finally trying to understand this concept and this helped a lot. Thank you!

What a great and useful video! Thank U so much!

This is fantastic information, thanks for the lesson!

The formant video to end all formant videos!!! This is great!

This is really well explained, thank you so much.

Very informative! Thank you very much.

Formants are natural 'chords' (frequencies) that the voice makes . Like piano chords, *formant frequencies* have specific and consistent interval lengths between them that aid the identification of them regardless of where they fall on the spectrogram.

Incredible video. Thank you! 🙏

Crazy good explanation; thank you!

Very informative and very well explained! 😉

Awesome vid man. Anyone else absolutely die when he fired up the vocoder?

dude made a banger tutorial and then left anyway super well explained, thanks for this video!!

You got yourself a 100th sub🔥🔥

Great Explanation Buddy 👍😀

Really good explanation. 20/10.

Fantastic video, thank you!

Amazing explanation! very graphic!

Sean, KUDOS on one of the best explanations of vocal formants on the Internet! I have a song sung by a male quartet on an mp3. Can you tell me how to change the formants and raise the pitch a fourth to make the singers sound like females?

This is great informations here. Thank u very much !

Just saved my vocal ped exam, thank you! Also useful for producing.

Awesome explanation, thanks man

Great demonstration thank you!

So cool youre explained it so well and interestingly

Amazing explanation man! Thank you for this

Now I can create choirs out of synthesizers. Thank you!

There are at least 15 and likely more formants in the range of human hearing. At least the first 6 matter for clean singing, and at least 10 of them matter for distorted singing and screaming.

Brilliant explanation, thanks

This explanation was eye opening. Thanks :)

this was such a helpful video. thank you.

This is SO COOL! Thanks :)

Great explanation. Thanks

Thanks for explaining this. Now I understand vocoders.

that is the best explanation I've seen thank you ❤️

Very Cool. Thanks for demonstrating that.

incredible video thank you

soo intresting!! thank you

Really good explanation.

Thank you so much for this really elaborate explanation on formants. Really helpful! I wanted to ask though, you've mentioned at the start of the video that "in theory, our voice produces an infinite number of formants" Can you elaborate more on that please? Like how is it "infinite"? Thank you 🙏🏼

Great video!

Perfect video. Bravo.

Amazing, subscribed.

Awesome explanation!

Great demonstration

Amazing!

Very well explained. Thank You

Thank you great tutorial. one thing I don’t fully understand, formants are always the same frequencies for the specific individual? Thanks

Awesome explanation

this was such a funny tutorial lmao

great explanation!

very good explanation!

Your unfiltered voice is awesome

Very useful, thanks

Really good video

If I want to see the formants of a piano sound for instance, how would I do that? Like I’m having trouble identifying the first and second formant

great video

Great video. Two questions: 1) what kind of waveform/preset did you use on the synth? 2) In the second formant pair should the distance be the same absolute or relative (200-600 -> 2000-2400 or 2000-6000)?

This is great, thanks

Excellent explanation. I've wanted to get that Daft Punk formant sound (that was apparently done with a Digitech Bass Synth Wah), I will give EQ automation a try, and maybe get to learn what frequencies make various vowels in the process.

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