February 06, 2008
Auto Tuner Abuse in Pop Music - with examples.
By the way, I've always found it nuts that the only really viable option for linking to a piece of music is to find a video on YouTube. Last.FM will now stream full tracks but it's hit or miss.
I think in some cases it is a conscious decision to achieve that sound (for example, T-Pain always sounds like that). But I think in others it is probably being used as a crutch to cover over singing flaws ala javelina's previous link. The question for me is whether the sound will be so ubiquitous that people don't notice and it continues to be employed for years or whether music will move past the glitchy sound and this will be seen as a relic of late 2000's pop.
Won't the software just start getting increasingly more sophisticated and less noticeable? In the future, I could imagine a computer being able to take an input of me talking for a few minutes, and maybe snging a scale, and be able to output 'my voice' singing just about anything.
Yes... in the year 2000...
Speaking of auto-tuning, some folks are pronouncing a radical shift in the industry thanks to a new tool which allows you to manipulate individual notes inside chords for the first time. Every song from now on can be captured on the first take (and manipulated in post)!
Autotuners and Professional Ethics. The sound engineer's decision was good, though I think I'd have politely declined (and offered to turn over the masters to another engineer if they sought one out.)
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If you never checked out this "Before the Music Dies" clip Javelina posted, go watch it now.
I always assumed that sound was purposeful, at least in things like the T-pain and Cher songs. When it's used on purpose, it can make the sound datable, yes -- but if you can't craft something timeless, isn't creating a distinctive sound for your time and place a worthy goal?
posted by mrflip at 12:47AM CST on February 07