How to "Chipmunk" any song

I can just asume every one reading this article has heard of "Alvin & the chipmunks", or at least heard one those those poor excuses for "chipmunked" versions, especially Good and Broken. Don't ask me. Ok, here is a video demonstrating how to make a "chipmunked" song.

EXAMPLE OF PROJECT:

Step 1 Step 1: Materials

You need a song (iTunes, Amazon MP3, Windows media Player, etc.), and Audacity (Click here to download).

Comments

[Hamb0]

I think the entire tunes pitch would be affected and be made somewhat shorter. What might also be possible is to get one of those vocal track strippers VST to isolate the vocals, modify the vocal track to increase pitch but maintain tempo using any decent DAW (Reaper is a good mainly free one) and layer it back over the original track either with or without the original vocal stripped out.. vocal isolation doesnt really tend to work 100% from what I've experienced.. but probably well enough to do something like this. I might try it on something by Entombed for laughs.

[lemonie]

Or Pinky & Perky.
Since most of this is in the video step 1, you'd be better posting it as a video tutorial.

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[dchall8]

This is good for "Chipmunking" other music. If you want to make original music in the Chipmunk style, you can use the same technique as the original. The original Chipmunks were produced by David Seville (the stage name of Ross Bagdasarian, Sr.) by recording his own voice, but talking and singing very slowly while recording at normal speed. Then using a special tape recorder, he played it back at double speed. There used to be a radio station in Los Angeles that played the Chipmunks back at 1/2 speed so you could hear Seville's speaking voice and the technique at work. I would think that creating original "Chipmunk" music would be easy for anyone with a computer and Audacity.

[Pazzerz]

I would think that creating original "Chipmunk" music would be easy for anyone with a computer and Audacity. -- Yeah, or a lot of helium.