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This feels like the same argument you'd here when electric guitars became ubiquitis. Or synthasizers. Can you not create emotionally resonant music without voc
by lghh 5y ago
This feels like the same argument you'd here when electric guitars became ubiquitis. Or synthasizers.
Can you not create emotionally resonant music without vocals? You'd be hard pressed to find someone who doesn't think you can. What about with no vocals and only electronic instruments like synths. You can. So why does adding a level of "electronic" feeling production to vocals do anything different? Sure, there's _bad_ autotune. There's also bad singing without it. But there's nothing inherently wrong with autotune.
- ratww 5y agoI agree that there isn’t anything inherently wrong with autotune, but electric guitars and synthesizers were very expressive instruments that generated new possibilities for musicians to express themselves: guitars with more sustain allowing for legato playing, for a different kind of vibrato, synthesizers allowing change of different parameters that traditional instruments can’t, etc. “Autotune the T-Pain effect”, is also a new sound… But Autotune/Melodyne being used to make vocals flawless is sort of “removing” flaws from vocal tracks. This would be similar to replacing an orchestra with Gemeral MIDI instruments. It is technically perfect, but there’s less expression. Whether this is good or bad I don’t know, but part of the charm of old recordings is the infinite variations of tuning and timing.