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Vigo:

--- Quote from: yotsuya on May 17, 2013, 05:17:18 pm ---May I be so bold as to ask WHY you are building a motorized Beaker? Shouldn't you be crafting an Urkel muppet?

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Because there already is a talking urkel.

Howard_Casto:
Woke up this morning to read my instructable newsletter and guess who's on it?

You've hit the big time Vigo... BIG TIME.





You know, beakers voice is really high pitched.  If there is some sort of adjustment on the dougie turning the sensitivity waaay down might make it possible to sync to musical pieces as well. 

BadMouth:
It doesn't even have to move to make me laugh.  :lol

Vigo:

--- Quote from: Howard_Casto on May 23, 2013, 12:52:37 pm ---Woke up this morning to read my instructable newsletter as guess who's on it?

You've hit the big time Vigo... BIG TIME.

You know, beakers voice is really high pitched.  If there is some sort of adjustment on the dougie turning the sensitivity waaay down might make it possible to sync to musical pieces as well.

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Thanks Howard! I've been experimenting with sound quite a bit on beaker. There is no sensitivity adjustment, but it will adjust when I change the volume on my MP3 Player. I also found that if I fiddle with the EQ and boost the range of the voice singing I have better results.

I also have been experimenting with changing the audio itself. I have found a number of songs on soundcloud where they extracted the voice from the rest of the song. I will put the voice on the left channel, and a mono version of the song on the right channel, then I split the audio and plug beaker into the left and play the music into the right. Beaker turns out dead accurate with voice. I just wish I knew how exactly to extract voice myself as I want him to be my main Christmas/Halloween prop and sing appropriate songs without any false triggers.


--- Quote from: BadMouth on May 23, 2013, 01:10:07 pm ---It doesn't even have to move to make me laugh.  :lol

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 :cheers: Me too. When I was down on the ground making test videos for Beaker, I was literally ROTFLing multiple times. Muppets are pure magic.

shrunkenmaster:

--- Quote from: Vigo on May 23, 2013, 02:58:15 pm ---
 I just wish I knew how exactly to extract voice myself as I want him to be my main Christmas/Halloween prop and sing appropriate songs without any false triggers.


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Only accurate way is using phase cancellation, but you'll need the 'vocal' version of the track (ie. the music AND the vocal), plus the instrumental. When they're both played at the same time with the phase of one inverted, then the similar frequencies are cancelled out, giving you the accapella, which you can then record. It's still hit and miss for a load of reasons though. Otherwise, super-harsh EQ is your best choice, but far from perfect! Loads of stuff online about this, just google 'accapella extraction' or similar. Hope that helps, great project!

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