[nleibo]

I hear quite a few Jingle samplers, but never heard a sampler dedicated exclusively to Sonovox Jingles…anyone “game”?

[DuncanNewmarchMember]

Our friend David Barras created a sonovox montage which I can dig out, Jeffro’s a big fan too but an excellent idea nleibo. I’d love to make one, which cuts would be essential and, more importantly, do we have the audio?

[IainJohnston]

I did one a while back, as a Personal Cuts one. Reloaded now…
https://soundcloud.com/allthebestjingles/ij-45yearsofsonovoxpersonalcuts-2014

Since its pishing down with rain here today, I could be very tempted to make a fresh one but of station cuts! :^)

[Sean MartinMember]

There was a video on Youtube a while back – but no more – packed with Z100 JAM jingles, all resung with sonovox for internet radio station *i100* in the same way that many were done for the FM station *Y100*. Simply awesome!!

Did anyone grab the audio?

[pvankleiMember]

Here is montage I made with one minute of Dutch sonovox jingles:

https://soundcloud.com/jinglefreak/one-minute-dutch-sonovox-jingles

[kcmike]

In February 2012, the great David Barras wrote:
“…personally, it`s my all-time favourite montage I`ve put together and posted on Jinglemad. “

Here it is. 9+minutes of sonovox ear candy.

[DuncanNewmarchMember]

I’ve heard David’s montage many times. Here’s a OMM of sonovox I’ve just made…

[glen]

Dan Ingram introduced a sonovox montage a years ago.
But I can’t remember who posted it.

[Sean MartinMember]

There was a video on Youtube a while back – but no more – packed with Z100 JAM jingles, all resung with sonovox for internet radio station *i100* in the same way that many were done for the FM station *Y100*. Simply awesome!!

Did anyone grab the audio?

NOT i100 . . . . but MY100. Turn it up load!!

[IainJohnston]

Or even … “loud”!
JMW’s tonsils must have been sore after that session – an excellent example of good sono work :^)

[rakMember]

Nice montage, and here’s a stream of MY100 http://panel5.serverhostingcenter.com:2199/start/xnrhtait/

[Sean MartinMember]

Or even … “loud”!
JMW’s tonsils must have been sore after that session – an excellent example of good sono work :^)

Hahahaha – how did I miss that!? Yeah, L-O-U-D !

Would be interesting to know *where* it does actually ache during a Sonovox session. I presume the chords/harmonies are on the (Roland) synth track and are *sung* on a single pass?

[LenGroat]

Gosh that My 100 package is SoNoSaTiOnAL !

Brilliant.. full of energy

If you are making a Sono sampler please feel free to download and use some NEW JMW Sono – an alternate version of our summer cut now on the Solid Gold GEM AM topic!

[IainJohnston]

“I presume the chords/harmonies are on the (Roland) synth track and are *sung* on a single pass? “

I must admit that in nearly 50 years of hearing sonovox cuts, I don’t think I’ve
ever heard a “harmony” sono vocal, i.e. more than 1 “layer”, to produce a sono “chord”.

Many years ago, before the days of electronic “vocoders” rather than true sonovox,
I wondered why there never seemed to be a FEMALE sono vocal on e.g. old PAMS jingles – but I know now that the “larynx” doesn’t matter because that’s the “driver” instrument or synth, and its the teeth-tongue-lips that simply shape/envelope that sound.

PS – anyone still got a copy of the “Steveland Morris Wonder Show” jingles done by Stevie Wonder for a show he did on BBC Radio One somewhere in the early 1970s?
Those are an interesting exercise in sono from a top-notch singer WITHOUT a jingle-singing background.

[Sean MartinMember]

I must admit that in nearly 50 years of hearing sonovox cuts, I don’t think I’ve
ever heard a “harmony” sono vocal, i.e. more than 1 “layer”, to produce a sono “chord”.

Here, the harmonies are on the driver track.

[IainJohnston]

Likewise on my audio further up the page, the difference between “traditional” buzztone etc from Ken Justiss and the rich structure of JMW is instantly noticable.

“more than 1 “layer”, to produce a sono “chord”

By that, Sean, I was thinking as in when Len describes how vocal(ist)s are “stacked” to richen the sound and add further “layers” of harmony on a note (I have that TM Magic Boston cut via you from last year where the same singer can be heard on two different harmony notes on the end).

I’d just wondered if ever a sono was done “stacked” that way, but with separate “drivers” and separate “layers”.

PS – Steve England fans should recall a damn good “one-oh-three-point-two” Alfa Leicester Sound (?) sono that even has good old-fashioned pan-pot on it bouncing from side to side :^)

[DuncanNewmarchMember]

If you haven’t seen this before, it’s worth a watch. From the 1940 comedy-thriller, You’ll Find Out

[nleibo]

I believe this was the “inspiration” for the “Bromo Seltzer” (sonovox) radio spot–the FIRST radio sonovox commercial….

[nleibo]

“traditional” buzztone –would those be the Sonovox jingles from PAMS Series #33 (WABC Cuts “Funnn Dan Ingram”, etc)?

[michiMember]

Montage of sonovox jingles done for REC (1989/1990) and for J1 (2013)
https://soundcloud.com/michelle-bradley-3/rec-sonovox-demo

[IainJohnston]

Many “traditional” sono-only items (i.e. not sung over a full instrumented tracks as such) were exemplified by e.g. legendary Ken Justiss the “Travelling Sonovox Singer” who in the 1970s literally DID travel around the USA doing sono sessions with his portable rig/keyboards/etc at “local” smaller-scale productions studios, who would have bundles of smaller-client orders stacked up awaiting his next visit on rotation.

Have a wander around Ken’s
http://sonodallas.com/about.htm
for the world of buzztones, slides and so on, whether “pre-loaded” or custom from keyboards, mini-moogs etc.

And for a bit of an idea of Ken’s “heritage”, here’s his “audio CV / resume” when he applied for a job at TM Productions as they were then – of course as they say “the rest is history”…
https://soundcloud.com/dab1100/ken-justiss-the-only-tm-audition-tape

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