Vocal transformations in Good Vibrations?

[Sam_BFC]

Hi guys, I have been doing some reading around magnetic tape manipulation and the like and have come across a couple of claims that GV features some form of tape transformations on the vocals as mentioned in the link below.

I was not aware of this technique featuring in GV and was wondering if anyone can point towards where in the song it does feature if indeed it does at all.

It is of course far easier to pinpoint where it is used in the also mentioned She's Goin Bald hehe .

Cheers

http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=P2dClS4LdPQC&pg=PA172&lpg=PA172&dq=vocal+transformations+good+vibrations&source=web&ots=AHST4wPXtK&sig=txvK5jpaTxdJx3XBtA3Gj2MFMT0&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=2&ct=result

[grillo]

Looks like the author/s were simply sloppy writers. I think the theremin relates solely to GV and the tape manipulation with SGB, since neither song features both.

[Andrew G. Doe]

"The Six Wives Of Henry VIII by the group Yes..."

Great fact checking guys. 

[The Shift]

I disassociate myself and especially my father from anything to do with this work!   

[James Hughes-Clarke]

Regarding the ‘Tempophon’: for me, that’s a mystery solved! 

I could never quite work out how they got that effect in ‘She’s Going Bald’ – and assumed that they must have sung the part, gradually adjusting their pitch lower and lower as the tape op vari-speeded down the multitrack. So that when it was played back at normal speed the vocals would still be in synch, whilst getting more……chipmunky.

[lance]

On the Desper thread, (I think) it is said that they had a special machine that did that effect--made the voice go higher while maintaining the same speed. It was a German machine.

[harveyw]

It was a machine called an Eltro that made the "pitch change without tempo change" effect on She's Goin' Bald, which, from what I can gather on the www, may well have been built from the same design (if not by the same manufacturer) as the Tempophon. A pretty amazing machine, either way.