Regards Music; What are Formants?

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Thought I'd ask. Was wondering if this involved math, or some additional concept about linear graphics.

I used to own a floor board effects unit once that had a formant feature, but couldn't quite understand what this meant. With what type of guitar effects are formants utilized? If not effects, what devices?

Please teach us if possible what you know about what formants are, their purpose, and how they are of benefit to us.
 
Formants are vowel sounds. Like the difference between 'ee' and 'aa'

Outside a vocoder and some fancy voice changing stuff, not sure how it's going to be useful in effects.
 
Formants are vowel sounds. Like the difference between 'ee' and 'aa'

Outside a vocoder and some fancy voice changing stuff, not sure how it's going to be useful in effects.

IIRC, the FX unit formant feature was for pitch shifter or harmonizer, perhaps some ring modulator, something of that kind.

Was hoping to find out more about this, as my HeadRush has both shifter and harmonizer abilities, both able to be tweaked with Q-range and other parameters...
 
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