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offline Q4Z2X on 2005-08-16 11:45 [#01697020]
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I know this topic doesn't entirely translate to most
electronic music, but does anyone else here always notice
when a voice on a recording is doctored up with a
pitch-correction program? I swear 99% of american popular
music (over)uses this technique, rather than getting a
really good take and putting up with its human qualities.
It ends up sounding all weird and 'rubbery', with little or
no portamento (i think that's what you call it) between
drastic note changes. It nearly ruins some albums for me
when it's really obvious.
Also, does anyone here ever use pitch correction on things
other than voice? I think you could get some interesting
effects by using the more drastic cher-like amount of
correction on instruments that naturally bend notes a bit.

I'd like to hear some thoughts on this, even though most
people here probably don't mind the intrusion of technology
into their music in any way, I just think it sucks the life
out of singing and makes it sound fucked-up. I'll shut up
now.


 

offline scup_bucket from bloated exploding piss pockets on 2005-08-16 11:49 [#01697024]
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ha, cher-like amount


 

offline Q4Z2X on 2005-08-16 12:08 [#01697038]
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I guess that effect is technically called 'pitch
accumulation'.


 

offline Q4Z2X on 2005-08-16 12:10 [#01697039]
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No, wait. Scratch that.


 

offline Q4Z2X on 2005-08-16 12:16 [#01697042]
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Ick. href='http://www.temple.edu/ispr/examples/ex03_08_25.html">I
guess people are using it live now, too



 

offline Q4Z2X on 2005-08-16 12:16 [#01697044]
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href="'http://www.temple.edu/ispr/examples/ex03_08_25.html"
Irk


 

offline Q4Z2X on 2005-08-16 12:17 [#01697046]
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hot damn


 

offline stilaktive from a place on 2005-08-16 12:20 [#01697052]
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who cares. im never going to a country concert anyway


 

offline Q4Z2X on 2005-08-16 12:22 [#01697058]
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It's likely used more on other types of music than on
country.


 

offline goodbyegonzaguo from Edinburgh (United Kingdom) on 2005-08-16 13:01 [#01697093]
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Doesn't Squarepusher use Autotune in Red Hot Car? By the
way, what exactly are the lyrics to Red Hot Car.


 

offline mylittlesister from ...wherever (United Kingdom) on 2005-08-16 13:55 [#01697176]
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it's almost a 'fashion' nowadays to overuse the pitch
correction, to give that robot-like effect. that cher song
is horrible though...


 

offline mc_303_beatz from Glasgow, Scotland on 2005-08-16 13:57 [#01697180]
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Yeah there's a new Coldplay song called White Shadows which
uses Autotune. I have it as a plug-in, but personally I
think it's awful and obvious to a trained ear like mine.


 

offline scup_bucket from bloated exploding piss pockets on 2005-08-16 14:01 [#01697185]
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fun thing to do: Drive around with your windows rolled down
singing along to that "do you believe in love" song by cher.
blast it good and loud.



 

offline Q4Z2X on 2005-08-16 14:24 [#01697203]
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Well, I consider the cher thing to be an effect, so it's
more excusable in my opinion than using the program to cover
up bad singing, or to take an already good vocal take and
'sterilise' and 'de-human-ify' it. A good example of a song
that really bothers me with the effect is 'the noose' by A
perfect circle. Not one of my favorite bands, but the guy
is a really good singer and the auto-tune is totally
unnecessary, and is irksome to most people with decent
hearing, and some familiarity with modern recording
techniques.



 

offline glyttrbugg from Tucson (United States) on 2005-08-16 14:44 [#01697248]
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mernh. had to karaoke that tune at a party. :\

backtotopic: agreed. many vocalists are overproduced/pitch
corrected -- usually does not appeal to me.


 

offline ymenard on 2005-08-16 15:21 [#01697322]
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Yeah give me some raw singing... Lou Reed, Bob Dylan, Thom
Yorke, Elvis Costello (well he sorta invented his own pitch
correction) even John Lennon when he overdubbed his stuff
and put on some heavy analog voice effects/double+pitched,
at least it was RAW.

I'm listening to Bob Dylan : Live 1966. When he gets
shouted "JUDAS!" and goes into a rampage on Like A Rolling
Stone, that's so fucking superior.


 

offline morphuze from Denmark on 2005-08-16 16:39 [#01697494]
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Some years ago (same year that Cher track was released) I
dl'ed some auto-tune plug-ins, but I could'nt make them work
....I imagined that I could use it for non-vocal,
"non-musical" sound, like ; just sample random
field-recordings, and then put it through auto-tune, making
it all fit a simple scale or minor chord, and it would be
all nice ..but the sound has to be (errrr) "singlenote"
(err, what's the word?) and random sounds has too many notes
so that it will screw up the autotuning .....but I like the
idea of making "automized" music, or "set-ups", which is
very easy in practic to then turn out like 10 new tracks in
1 day... ultra-lazy me ;) ..the artistic aspect would then
be to "compile" the set-up, if you know what i mean.....
manual complex music editing is ofcourse impressive, but
sometimes it just makes me think "omg that person has too
much time on his hand, that must have taken ages to compose
all that crazy stuff, like 'get a life!!' (i know ; music is
his life, but.." (ex. otto von schirach) .....and blabla
(i'm babling a bit now...)


 

offline patman from Liverpool, England on 2005-08-16 16:45 [#01697499]
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I like nice, shiny, over-produced pop and R'n'B.


 

offline w M w from London (United Kingdom) on 2005-08-16 17:55 [#01697550]
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I love when aphex weirdifies the pitch of voices in the come
2 daddy album. Audacity can change speed tempo or pitch, but
it can't slide it up/down in real time like aphex, just all
at once. I would enjoy it if Cher recorded a scream of her
dying and then someone else pitch shifted it.


 

offline w M w from London (United Kingdom) on 2005-08-16 17:56 [#01697552]
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Me too; George Michael's WHAM 4 life. <3 He's such a hunk
too. <3<3


 

offline mc_303_beatz from Glasgow, Scotland on 2005-08-16 18:06 [#01697563]
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Antares Autotune is the one to get


 


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