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I believe I hear pitch correction whenever it's used. Do you have an example where it is used and I would struggle to hear it?

philmcc 10y ago
I was involved in the recording and production for a top 40 producer, and can confirm that there was autotune on every single vocal track that left the studio. Here are a few that I was in the room when the artist was recording, and can confirm pitch correction: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=450p7goxZqg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=450p7goxZqg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M8uPvX2te0I https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M8uPvX2te0I https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E0oyglKjbFQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E0oyglKjbFQ
- algesten 10y ago
  The first one has that metallic sound that is a dead give away. First falsetto is quieter than the second one, and you can really hear as he increases the loudness of his voice, the metallic kicks in https://youtu.be/450p7goxZqg?t=1m27s https://youtu.be/450p7goxZqg?t=1m27s Second one has a "Cher moment" almost straight away, just after "wandering the desert a thousand days" the following "mmmm" has a glissando between two notes where we clearly hear the hard edge on what I assume is an auto tune lookahead. I don't actually know how they work, I just assume there's a lookahead for the next note approximation which makes glissandos sound funny. https://youtu.be/M8uPvX2te0I?t=31s https://youtu.be/M8uPvX2te0I?t=31s The last one I can't really fault for too much autotune, more a lack of it. The bridge is especially intense https://youtu.be/E0oyglKjbFQ?t=1m51s https://youtu.be/E0oyglKjbFQ?t=1m51s
- nightcracker 10y ago
  It would've been much better if you posted 6 links, 3 with and 3 without autotune. See if people can figure out which is which.
taco_emoji 10y ago
Say the singer loses the pitch slightly for half a second on a held note. If that fluctuation is corrected, what auditory information could be left for you to detect the modification?
kazinator 10y ago
I believe I hear pitch correction when it's obviously used, and it's a lot. Pretty much most of the "top forty" pop pablum from the last 20 years. I believe there is pitch correction that I don't spot: the "dark matter" of pitch correction that is done less cheesily. The worst of it sounds almost like packet loss concealment in a G.722 voice stream: the sustained part of a vocal note basically sounding synthesized.

philmcc 10y ago

I was involved in the recording and production for a top 40 producer, and can confirm that there was autotune on every single vocal track that left the studio. Here are a few that I was in the room when the artist was recording, and can confirm pitch correction: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=450p7goxZqg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=450p7goxZqg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M8uPvX2te0I https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M8uPvX2te0I https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E0oyglKjbFQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E0oyglKjbFQ

algesten 10y ago
The first one has that metallic sound that is a dead give away. First falsetto is quieter than the second one, and you can really hear as he increases the loudness of his voice, the metallic kicks in https://youtu.be/450p7goxZqg?t=1m27s https://youtu.be/450p7goxZqg?t=1m27s Second one has a "Cher moment" almost straight away, just after "wandering the desert a thousand days" the following "mmmm" has a glissando between two notes where we clearly hear the hard edge on what I assume is an auto tune lookahead. I don't actually know how they work, I just assume there's a lookahead for the next note approximation which makes glissandos sound funny. https://youtu.be/M8uPvX2te0I?t=31s https://youtu.be/M8uPvX2te0I?t=31s The last one I can't really fault for too much autotune, more a lack of it. The bridge is especially intense https://youtu.be/E0oyglKjbFQ?t=1m51s https://youtu.be/E0oyglKjbFQ?t=1m51s
nightcracker 10y ago
It would've been much better if you posted 6 links, 3 with and 3 without autotune. See if people can figure out which is which.

taco_emoji 10y ago

Say the singer loses the pitch slightly for half a second on a held note. If that fluctuation is corrected, what auditory information could be left for you to detect the modification?

kazinator 10y ago

I believe I hear pitch correction when it's obviously used, and it's a lot. Pretty much most of the "top forty" pop pablum from the last 20 years. I believe there is pitch correction that I don't spot: the "dark matter" of pitch correction that is done less cheesily. The worst of it sounds almost like packet loss concealment in a G.722 voice stream: the sustained part of a vocal note basically sounding synthesized.