Peter Frampton

• Talk box setup: speaker in a small enclosure → plastic tube → your mouth. Sing no note — just shape vowels
• Vowel shapes: "ah" for open tone, "wah" for forward peak, "oo" for dark, scooped tone
• A Dunlop Cry Baby Wah is the accessible alternative — approximates the talk box filter
• Les Paul bridge pickup for the base tone — warm but with enough bite to drive the talk box
• Marshall gain: moderate, not extreme — the talk box needs a clear signal to articulate well
• Play slow, melodic lines through the talk box — fast runs muddy the vowel articulation
• Frampton's non-talk-box playing is rooted in slow, emotive blues phrasing
• The "baby I love your way" clean chord work: open chord shapes, gentle picking, clean amp
• Study "Do You Feel Like We Do" (live version) for the extended talk box improvisation

Peter Frampton's talk box made "Do You Feel Like We Do" one of the most recognisable guitar sounds in history. His Les Paul through a Marshall, filtered through the Heil Sound Talk Box, produces a guitar-vocal hybrid tone that sounds like the instrument is literally talking. Beyond the gimmick, Frampton is a blues-rock player of considerable depth.