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Anything featuring 'Autotune'.
If you can't f**king sing, don't try to be a f**king singer. Go do something you can do. The latest trend seems to be to take someone who looks good, get them to 'sing', then use electronics to make it sound acceptable. People actually buy this s**t that's made by people with looks but no talent.
There are one or two vids on Youtube of singers with / without autotune - most of them are shockingly bad singers. In fact, calling them 'singers' is an insult to people who can actually sing.
If you can't f**king sing, don't try to be a f**king singer. Go do something you can do. The latest trend seems to be to take someone who looks good, get them to 'sing', then use electronics to make it sound acceptable. People actually buy this s**t that's made by people with looks but no talent.
There are one or two vids on Youtube of singers with / without autotune - most of them are shockingly bad singers. In fact, calling them 'singers' is an insult to people who can actually sing.
Magnum 475 said:
Anything featuring 'Autotune'.
If you can't f**king sing, don't try to be a f**king singer. Go do something you can do. The latest trend seems to be to take someone who looks good, get them to 'sing', then use electronics to make it sound acceptable. People actually buy this s**t that's made by people with looks but no talent.
There are one or two vids on Youtube of singers with / without autotune - most of them are shockingly bad singers. In fact, calling them 'singers' is an insult to people who can actually sing.
I was coming here to write exactly this.If you can't f**king sing, don't try to be a f**king singer. Go do something you can do. The latest trend seems to be to take someone who looks good, get them to 'sing', then use electronics to make it sound acceptable. People actually buy this s**t that's made by people with looks but no talent.
There are one or two vids on Youtube of singers with / without autotune - most of them are shockingly bad singers. In fact, calling them 'singers' is an insult to people who can actually sing.
Cher has a lot to answer for
Don1 said:
Magnum 475 said:
Anything featuring 'Autotune'.
If you can't f**king sing, don't try to be a f**king singer. Go do something you can do. The latest trend seems to be to take someone who looks good, get them to 'sing', then use electronics to make it sound acceptable. People actually buy this s**t that's made by people with looks but no talent.
There are one or two vids on Youtube of singers with / without autotune - most of them are shockingly bad singers. In fact, calling them 'singers' is an insult to people who can actually sing.
I was coming here to write exactly this.If you can't f**king sing, don't try to be a f**king singer. Go do something you can do. The latest trend seems to be to take someone who looks good, get them to 'sing', then use electronics to make it sound acceptable. People actually buy this s**t that's made by people with looks but no talent.
There are one or two vids on Youtube of singers with / without autotune - most of them are shockingly bad singers. In fact, calling them 'singers' is an insult to people who can actually sing.
Cher has a lot to answer for
Stan the Bat said:
Can auto-tune not be used in a live situation ?
I genuinely don't know. I've always assumed not, as it has to be able to correct pitch, tone, and vocal quality. I've always assumed it's applied to a recorded vocal by someone who's got an idea of what the song is supposed to sound like. When you listen to just how much work autotune is doing to some of our latest 'singers', I'd be surprised if it could do it in a live concert. But maybe it's moved to the point where it can - not sure.Here's an example with Becky G who I mentioned a couple of posts ago...
Autotune is having to do a lot of work to correct what little vocal ability she has.
Edited by Magnum 475 on Friday 18th February 08:15
Stan the Bat said:
Can auto-tune not be used in a live situation ?
I do know of one popular beat combo that play to a backing track, said backing track has the vocals on it as the singer just cannot cut it in a live situation.That’s one band that has certainly embraced the technology available…
Autotune can work in a number of ways, in the studio it can be tweaked endlessly to get what you want. In a live situation it just has to work, this is why you get those videos of singers sounding awful live, the autotune has failed.
When you play with autotune it modifies the tone to be what it should be, that can be based on a 'guess' the device listens to the audio and works out what it should be or it can be based on a pre-programed sequence or sometimes a direct feed of info in real-time such as midi data (note information).
I use a TC Helicon Mic Mechanic, it will move me by a semitone if I'm off live. Hard to hear yourself at a pub gig sometimes.
When you play with autotune it modifies the tone to be what it should be, that can be based on a 'guess' the device listens to the audio and works out what it should be or it can be based on a pre-programed sequence or sometimes a direct feed of info in real-time such as midi data (note information).
I use a TC Helicon Mic Mechanic, it will move me by a semitone if I'm off live. Hard to hear yourself at a pub gig sometimes.
gazza285 said:
Stan the Bat said:
Can auto-tune not be used in a live situation ?
I do know of one popular beat combo that play to a backing track, said backing track has the vocals on it as the singer just cannot cut it in a live situation.That’s one band that has certainly embraced the technology available…
More a miming thing.
Stan the Bat said:
gazza285 said:
Stan the Bat said:
Can auto-tune not be used in a live situation ?
I do know of one popular beat combo that play to a backing track, said backing track has the vocals on it as the singer just cannot cut it in a live situation.That’s one band that has certainly embraced the technology available…
More a miming thing.
Kendrick Lamar, who seems to be massively critically acclaimed for some unknown reason. His 'To Pimp a Butterfly' album is fusion of mumbled rap and the worst that free-form jazz has to offer from a 'rapper' who sounds like he's trying to rap in the deepest pretend voice he has while he waits for his voice to break. To be fair I only tried to listen to this album, but that was enough!
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