Benztown does the Robot Rock or Daft Punk Talkbox magic

Daft Punk are ruling the charts. The French pioneers of electronic music returned this year with the hit single ‘Get Lucky’ and their signature robot sounds. To get close to this unique sound, we got ourselves one of Daft Punk’s favorite toys — the talkbox.

Check out our talkbox setup and how Oli created the original Daft Punk robot sound in our unique Branding for ‘Get Lucky’ – Time to do the robot rock!

Oli’s using a Rocktron Banshee 2, which is controlled via MIDI directly in Pro Tools, modulated with his voice and recorded into an external microphone.

And here’s the result:

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How about you? Are there any talkbox/vocoder freaks out there? Do you have a same setup like we do or are you using other devices like a guitar? Robot freaks, share your tricks with us.