Bloody Autotune!
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No it's not a device which keeps your PAJ in good order...
It's a foul invention, an effects processor that corrects pitch by bringing it up or down to the nearest note in the corresponding key of the song.
In other words, you sing out of tune and it drags your voice back in tune. It gives itself away by making the singers voice sound rather metalic and synth-like. They used it to its extreme as an effect on that Cher song "life after love".
It just means that there are even more talentless wanabees who are able to make a claim in the ever more dumbed down music business.
And the really infuriating thing? Nobody knows about it! I imagine very few folk on here have ever heard of it. Understandable in itself but it just means that these non-singers get away by faking it in the studio as well as on stage. (lost count of the numbers at the Brits who had it on).
Meh, there you are, a half hearted rant of a thing. I give myself 1/2 out of ten.
It's a foul invention, an effects processor that corrects pitch by bringing it up or down to the nearest note in the corresponding key of the song.
In other words, you sing out of tune and it drags your voice back in tune. It gives itself away by making the singers voice sound rather metalic and synth-like. They used it to its extreme as an effect on that Cher song "life after love".
It just means that there are even more talentless wanabees who are able to make a claim in the ever more dumbed down music business.
And the really infuriating thing? Nobody knows about it! I imagine very few folk on here have ever heard of it. Understandable in itself but it just means that these non-singers get away by faking it in the studio as well as on stage. (lost count of the numbers at the Brits who had it on).
Meh, there you are, a half hearted rant of a thing. I give myself 1/2 out of ten.
Driller said:
Poledriver said:
I worked in the Pro-Audio industry for 25 years, the Auto-tune is the thin end of the wedge, you'd be surprised at the tricks some very famous people have used!
What happens on tour, stays on tour! That may change later when I get back from the pub after my usual gallon of HSB
Poledriver said:
Driller said:
Poledriver said:
I worked in the Pro-Audio industry for 25 years, the Auto-tune is the thin end of the wedge, you'd be surprised at the tricks some very famous people have used!
What happens on tour, stays on tour! That may change later when I get back from the pub after my usual gallon of HSB
Driller said:
I imagine very few folk on here have ever heard of it.
I use it in the studio - it can add some interesting effects to vocals. The harmony products are quite interesting too.Given we use synthesisers, vocoders, eq, reverb and the rest - I don't think we should be shy of any electronics.
NDA said:
Driller said:
I imagine very few folk on here have ever heard of it.
I use it in the studio - it can add some interesting effects to vocals. The harmony products are quite interesting too.Given we use synthesisers, vocoders, eq, reverb and the rest - I don't think we should be shy of any electronics.
I agree that Autotune can be used to great effect as an... um... effect. It's its original use that drives me mad ie to get people to sing in tune who otherwise can't. It's a crutch for talent.
As terrible, bad, annoying, and downright cheating as Autotune is, at least the talentless singers are actually singing at their gigs.
The thing that annoys me most of all is "bands" "singing" at their "gigs", when in reality they're just prancing about, miming to a studio recorded, autotuned backing track.
What you don't want to do in that situation is p
s off your sound engineer, like Britney Spears did. Because then he might take what actually came through her vocal mic on a gig, lay it on top of the proper video, just so we can really hear what she sings like live:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cT_QB7tBxyg
The thing that annoys me most of all is "bands" "singing" at their "gigs", when in reality they're just prancing about, miming to a studio recorded, autotuned backing track.
What you don't want to do in that situation is p
s off your sound engineer, like Britney Spears did. Because then he might take what actually came through her vocal mic on a gig, lay it on top of the proper video, just so we can really hear what she sings like live:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cT_QB7tBxyg
Driller said:
esselte said:
Went to Music Live at the NEC a while ago and heard TC Helicon's Voice works kit...very difficult to hera the difference between that and an "unadulterated" voice....
Yeah but the point is not whether you can hear it or not, the point is having to use it at all...Gassing Station | Music | Top of Page | What's New | My Stuff