jimmys69
MOODerator
Check out this song by Foxes in Fiction. The vocals are rough (to be kind). But instead of tuning them the producer seems to have used other instruments and vocal dubs to reinforce the vocal and give it a more pleasant sound. Or am I imagining that? Maybe there is some subtle tuning going on?
Wondering if you guys have creative tricks for sweetening difficult vocals like this. Usually I go straight to tuning but that introduces its own problems.
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Sounds to me like whomever mixed it did what he could to make it listenable. I personally would have gone for some vocal pitch correction. But who is to say that wasn't already done? Maybe the performance was so bad that the tuned result was so bad that it wasn't worth putting up front. Or maybe just this is the sound the artist wanted? No way to really know.
I have recorded a song where the vocalist could not sing at all-and she knew it. But it was for her recently passed grandmothers funeral. So did what I had to do with multiple takes to get close. Then Melodyned the crap out of it....