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The Paul McCartney live release last year Good Evening New York City was the first use of auto tune that really made feel like things were getting bad. I think
by RK 16y ago
The Paul McCartney live release last year Good Evening New York City was the first use of auto tune that really made feel like things were getting bad. I think it got a lot of press because it was Paul McCartney of course. I assume for live auto-tune to work like that, there must have been someone playing keyboards or something in unison with his vocal lines. I don't think auto-tune was post production (though that could have been the case).
It's probably most noticeable when you are so familiar with someone's voice.
- philwelch 16y agoMore "live" records are post-produced than you'd think--recording over mistakes or looping choruses where the singer just left it for the audience to sing.
- RK 16y agoI vaguely recall a story about this that said they were using auto-tune at Paul McCartney's actual concerts. Which would not surprise me if it is becoming a standard, simply because it is easy to do nowadays.
- xpaulbettsx 16y agoAutotune doesn't have to know the sheet music behind what the singer is singing, it's just trying to snap the pitch to any in-tune note - it's the audio equivalent to "Snap to Grid".
- nitrogen 16y agoSome older pitch correction devices, like the Lexicon PCM-81, aren't that great at snapping the pitch on their own (or can't do it at all), and need a keyboard playing the correct notes.
- chipsy 16y agoA particularly well-known example of live use is the Billy Joel Super Bowl XLI national anthem: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G8smRRyoYGc http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G8smRRyoYGc The main problem with auto-tuning live is that you're just trading the pitch control for everything else - intonation, vibrato, etc. Exposing that "robot sound" ends up being another way to screw up your performance, and so there's no way to cheat. You still need to be an excellent singer to get close to the studio-perfected sound. (If you're in the studio, of course, you can do overdubs, and you can use the more sophisticated Auto-Tune competitor Melodyne, which uses batch processing to allow smoother and more detailed corrections including pitch, rhythm and timbre, and in the most recent versions, chord manipulations.)