The Vocal Booth at The GRAMMY Museum

The Grammy Museum’s Sonic Playground exhibit features a new experience designed by Moldover called The Vocal Booth.

The experience is virtually hosted by artist H.E.R., who explains how everything works, offers singing tips, and a little inspiration. Select one of the licensed tracks from Nirvana, Mariah Carey, Pharrell Williams, or Shakira (which have all been specially tweaked from the original stems) and get ready to sing your heart out.

The custom hardware controller allows you or a friend to intuitively manipulate your voice with a variety of carefully-selected effects. Professional vocal processing is provided by iZotope/Native Instruments, Polyverse Music, and Valhalla DSP, and the core of the system runs on Ableton Live and Max for Live. For those who prefer not to control the effects manually, detailed auto-effect sequences play alongside each song, engaging reverbs, harmonies, synth transformations, and more, all following the style of effects-phrasing Moldover developed for his MC1 vocal controller. There are two complete copies of the custom controller with unique harmony and other effects, so you can turn any song into a duet with your friends and family.

Moldover would like to thank The Grammy Museum staff, Curious Beast, Steiner Bros., H.E.R., Tremaine Williams, Tobias Hunke, Brendan Hogan, Chris Nash, and Reek Havok for helping make this possible.