Auto tune article

[Tom22]

http://www.theverge.com/2013/2/27/396440...c#comments

That's a Great article about auto-tune

It is a long one with a number of videos to watch embedded in it.


There is one pretty far towards the end with the African American Actor who was on Star Trek Deep space nine (or new gen or something) with the blind sight giving sunglasses on.

He hosts lots of science shows lately. I have a feeling that he had some hard science degree before he went into acting but either way , he's always enthused and entertaining.

He sings this song (cutting from his kitchen to the shower, to his car) as terribly as I sing in each of those three. He misses notes entirely (like wrong key) but goes into a studio with the inventor of auto tune and he and an assistant work it out to make him sound ok.

The whole article is interesting.. that example with the actor is funny and perhaps builds walter-mitty like dreams in people like me who doesn't have too great of an ear, especially hearing myself while singing.

[Miguel]

Good article.

“I’ll be in a studio and hear a singer down the hall and she’s clearly out of tune, and she’ll do one take,” says Drew Waters of Capitol Records. That’s all she needs. Because they can fix it later, in Auto-Tune.

There is much speculation online about who does — or doesn’t — use Auto-Tune. Taylor Swift is a key target, as her terribly off-key duet with Stevie Nicks at the 2010 Grammys suggests she’s tone deaf. (Label reps said at the time something was wrong with her earpiece.) But such speculation is naïve, say the producers I talked to. “Everybody uses it,” says Filip Nikolic, singer in the LA-based band, Poolside, and a freelance music producer and studio engineer. “It saves a ton of time.”

On one end of the spectrum are people who dial up Auto-Tune to the max, a la Cher / T-Pain. On the other end are people who use it occasionally and sparingly. You can use Auto-Tune not only to pitch correct vocals, but other instruments too, and light users will tweak a note here and there if a guitar is, say, rubbing up against a vocal in a weird way.

“I’ll massage a note every once in a while, and often I won’t even tell the artist,” says Eric Drew Feldman, a San Francisco-based musician and producer who’s worked with The Polyphonic Spree and Frank Black.

But between those two extremes, you have the synthetic middle, where Auto-Tune is used to correct nearly every note, as one integral brick in a thick wall of digitally processed sound. From Justin Bieber to One Direction, from The Weeknd to Chris Brown, most pop music produced today has a slick, synth-y tone that’s partly a result of pitch correction.

I wonder if the lack of autotune will hurt Haley when she's shopping her demos. i.e., she won't sound current.

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The whole article is interesting.. that example with the actor is funny and perhaps builds walter-mitty like dreams in people like me who doesn't have too great of an ear, especially hearing myself while singing.

The comments were interesting. Some people were defensive. I can understand a songwriter who plays guitar using auto-tune in order to hear their songs in the best light. But I think anyone who performs on stage using auto-tune is cheating.

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He hosts lots of science shows lately. I have a feeling that he had some hard science degree before he went into acting but either way , he's always enthused and entertaining.

LeVar Burton went to parochial schools until he was 13. He spent four years at seminary before enrolling at USC to study acting. He was a sophomore when he was tapped for the lead role in the television mini-series Roots.

He's a reader though: "I grew up in a house where reading was like breathing. I just want to make sure there’s a choice available for those for whom educational television has value."