Comments on: Auto-Tune Abuse in Pop Music - 10 Examples

by: Darren Landrum

Sat, 10 May 2008 12:33:51 +0000

Josh B: "I sing the song three or four times, record all four takes and then listen to the first recording and replace problematic sections with relevant portions of the other 3 recordings."

That's called "comping", and it was not an uncommon technique throughout the seventies. You can ask Terry Manning all about it. :)

by: jonsonroth

Sun, 20 Apr 2008 04:19:54 +0000

You know, though, from a pure effect angle, I love the sound of auto-tune. For me, it makes shitty songs a bit more listenable. I've always thought of the human voice as an instrument, so the sound of auto-tune is simply an effect. It's so unlike anything you typically hear with the human voice (other than throat singers from various parts of the world). But of course, that doesn't make it a good thing to do.

by: EfemJay

Sun, 16 Mar 2008 20:23:18 +0000

The T-Pain and Natasha Bedingfield examples are CLEARLY intentional to get the Zapp/Roger Troutman sound. They aren't intended to sound natural.

by: Josh B

Thu, 06 Mar 2008 11:03:41 +0000

As a recording artist (lead vocals/guitar) I prefer cheating in a far more honest fashion. I sing the song three or four times, record all four takes and then listen to the first recording and replace problematic sections with relevant portions of the other 3 recordings. Its cheating because I didn't sing the song perfectly straight through, but honest because I did sing every note myself.

If you're too lazy to do that than by all means use autotune, but my way works way better if you're at all consistent in your performance.

by: Listen Music Free

Wed, 05 Mar 2008 05:11:38 +0000

Natasha Bedingfield - Love Like This - "Apart" and "life."
Very good example I like it!!

by: Mike Lee

Thu, 28 Feb 2008 23:08:10 +0000

Well if you want to see the most well known tune abuse visit:
http://www.whatmp3.net/50cents.html

He basically killed pop music with his rap…

http://lyrics.whatmp3.net/lyrics/killed.html

by: Manslick

Fri, 22 Feb 2008 17:24:04 +0000

Well I had to comment because on American Idol they debuted the Paula Abdull song on Randy’s new disc. It was apparent that there was a pitch correcting device in action. I had to cringe at the hypocrisy of it all as they sit there and judge the contestants and then point out the slightest off pitch note. But at the same time it seems that the sound of pitch correcting devices is now status quo and if you don’t use it then you’re like out of it dude.

by: krim krom

Wed, 20 Feb 2008 13:52:22 +0000

Melodyne requires caring about the song you're working on. Avoid getting the full version so you don't have a one-button-tunes-and-quantizes-all option. Antares makes that button much more readily available.

by: BNKRECORDS

Sun, 17 Feb 2008 19:38:43 +0000

keithhandy

Thank you for correcting that, It was like 3 in the mornin when i posted that so i was a little tired, but you are correct…. As far as who I was getting frustrated with, I wasnt talking about anyone in here, I made a tpain cant sing video on youtube and alot of people were saying things like "tpain is nothing new, Roger Troutman and Peter frampton have been using that effect for years"…. i was only refering to those kind of comments……

by: Keith Handy

Sun, 17 Feb 2008 18:41:53 +0000

BNKRECORDS: Not sure who you're getting frustrated with here…

Anyway, in your description of vocoder, you said "blended/layered", which kind of doesn't quite explain it… one way to think of it is that a sound (typically a synthesizer) is passing through a complex filter, which is being shaped by another sound (typically a voice). So the synthesizer sound takes on the "shape" of your voice, even though you don't actually hear the voice itself.