jimmys69
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I never needed it and if I ever do I will hang up the mike!
Then you are one of the awesome! Show us some tracks!
I never needed it and if I ever do I will hang up the mike!
Tried some times, but I could only use it for creating BG choirs. Whenever I sing with all my heart, I have a rather distorted voice that made autotune run wild as well as it made TC VoiceLive... There are some harmonics in the voice due to the distortion, that seem to make my voice hard to track...
Sounds like a technique problem
Then you are one of the awesome! Show us some tracks!
Not sure if any of ya's are watching the voice this season but HOLY SHIT! They may be putting on a little verb on em but no auto-tune cause when the ones that do get pitchy get pitchy it's there bigger n shit...
I am blown away with the young talent this year 13, 14 and 15 year olds KILLING IT!
Kinda makes me wanna roll myself up in a big ball and die...
It's also an issue of guitars not tuned properly when I'm singing, and a bass that is tuned maybe a little differently.
Good point. It's a reason I try to sing to just drums and one isolated instrument (usually an acoustic guitar if it's in tune).
I'm pretty poor at pitch (I practice daily fwiw), yet I don't like tuning vocals, but I will do it in moderation to fully realize songs. Sometimes I'll leave flat notes if they sound better than a tuned note. I don't think there's anything wrong with using it and think the people who think that way are behind the times. It's like the guys who think baseball rules from 1900 should still be enforced. When it comes to realizing a song the end justifies the means for sure.
I wonder if when compression and EQ effects came out if the "purists" despised them because they altered the original take. "You don't need compression, you just need proper mic technique!" haha
I don't think they did, and I would argue that most people would agree that not all "tools" are the same with regards to what they do.
I would argue that the tools all work toward making a song sound better. Better is subjective, of course, but the end result is to make the track more to what you want it to be.
In a perfect world, we wouldn't need to have programs like Melodyne, Autotune, VocAlign, and whatnot. The singer would practice their parts until they can nail them perfectly. We don't live in a perfect world though. Some people like the imperfect takes, as maybe they see it as giving a song more character, whereas others like a song to be as perfect as possible to be the best representation of the idea that was in its creators' heads. I see neither as being wrong, it all depends on what the song means to you as an artist.
I will say that I feel Melodyne, Autotune, and so on are too overused in productions though. I personally use Melodyne, more as a way to "even out" a double tracked (or more) vocal part, but then my band's singer has usually been able to hit the notes.
I wonder if when compression and EQ effects came out if the "purists" despised them because they altered the original take. "You don't need compression, you just need proper mic technique!" haha
so maybe the only pure thing is to listen to the original artist acoustically singing the song.
Alan.
I wonder if when compression and EQ effects came out if the "purists" despised them because they altered the original take. "You don't need compression, you just need proper mic technique!" haha