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You might not like it, but.. ...it is becoming an art form. There are whole genres being built around it, deliberately going for that sound. I can't stand the sound, but I also can't pretend that it is not happening. It may have started off as a pitch correction tool, but some people seem to...

If you use autotune, I am not sure you need any special "breathing" technique. As for range, the range of autotune should be available in the software package specification. The questions you have asked relate more to singing without autotune. Nothing wrong with singing for autotune, if that is...

Interesting. To me, your singing has an "Indian" flavour to it -- inflection reminds me a bit of the sorts of riffs you hear in music from that part of the world. No serious technical problems that I could hear for this song. Stylistically, I think it needs a little more dynamic -- more...

Sometimes I sing like this. It's a style choice, but I sometimes get comments on lack of projection, too much air, falsetto etc. LOAJP001FERP by kickingtone | Free Listening on SoundCloud When people say things like, "too much air", what does it actually mean? Too much air for what? Maybe...

Doesn't mean much. If he had said that he loved the sound of his voice, more people would tend to say, "it's not all that". If you say that you can't stand the sound of your voice -- gamesmanship -- you stand a greater chance of drawing attention to it by saying, "what! you've got a great...

And? She doesn't mention mix. She could be commenting on what she thinks of the raw vocals, and suggesting that the same problem would/will exist in a mix -- i.e that people listening through speakers will hear sub-par vocals, in her opinion.

Yes, but there was no mention of a mix. I mentioned the two possibilities: actual and perceived alteration. I am not saying which necessarily applies in the OPs case. Another possibility, but again we don't know the OPs set up. It sounded to me as if she said the SAME recording sounds fine...

A diaphragm has natural frequencies of vibration. The response of the diaphragm will depend on how close the driving frequency is to one of the natural frequencies. So, you need a good speaker to get a flat (consistent) response across a wide range of audible frequencies. Then you have...

I just did a Google search, and it landed me right back on this site. Headphones-Speakers...pitch change? It can't be a coincidence that I found the same thing independently. The explanation given in the thread tends to be about "perception", i.e pitch rather than frequency. I don't think it...

I can think of two reasons. Pitch has a subjective component (it is not purely the same as frequency). Frequency may be objective, but some equipment have poor linearity. It took me quite a while to figure out why, sometimes, a clip of my vocals would sound in tune one day, but not the next...

The way you've written it, you know you're playing with words. :cool: The question was not about the ability to sing to a metronome, but the need to sing to one. (You tried to turn a negative into a positive). A metronome can help with not speeding up over the course of a piece of music, for...

Wonderful World... I wonder if a metronome is going to help in the second one, lol.

I'd like to hear from Alvin G on that, too. How inaccurate is the singer's phrasing? (We know it is awkward to fix.) I would be a bit more worried about a singer who was dropping beats inconsistently, as oppose to consistently. I may have missed your point, though, if, by consistently, you mean...

I keep reading this, and I'm not quite sure if you are joking or not. :p I would lay a hefty sum that even a robot, pre-programmed with all the "right" moves would crash. It is basically chaos theory. Minute errors escalate exponentially. As for humans, Myth Busters did an interesting...

Oops, I forgot to mention... My advice would be to pick a suitable instrument and practise "singing" it alongside the vocals. Like so... "...on the walkways of the magazine...bam bam b-bam b-bam b-she don't know the words...." Sing through the pauses. If you are losing it during a phrase...

Sure. But what role does the "metronome" play in getting the new driver to drive in a straight line? The metronome is just the fixed element, the approximation -- the steering wheel should be "centered". But our new driver is still going to end up in a bush. What I am trying to say is that the...

This is exactly what I am talking about. (Sometimes, I get the impression that the engineer has created the effect, rather than the singer, but hey! ;) ) My thinking is that there are really two parts to this: hearing what the vocals should sound like relative to the music, then being able to...

For me, this is the issue -- the difference between "click" and "metronomic click". Very few songs (or perhaps few that I tend to listen to) are metronomic. At the sub-beat level, where the groove and style usually belong, the metronome is too crude a reference. At that point I would have to...

Interesting. In my opinion, there is nothing like a metronome to kill the sense of rhythm stone dead. But it is only an opinion. :)

Using software as visual or aural feedback when singing for real seems really awkward to me. Better to train your ears, directly, imo. If you can hear something is off, at least you are some way to solving the problem. But you then have to learn to use your ears to tell you "off how?" Exercises...