I hear many people say: “I can do the same if I had some autotune on my voice”, to that I would have to argue that the use of autotune alone doesn’t make or break the song. I don’t want to discourage anybody from doing this or say anything bad about it, we all have our own way of artistic expression and if that’s yours then more power to you. The result, an almost vocoder sounding vocal on top of a hip-hop beat, without much of the original vocal left to hear.
So much so that it inspired a whole new wave of artists to create their own sound using this effect. I’m sure that we’re all familiar with certain artists that popularised this effect in the rap scene. Pitch correction is a wonderful thing and will make an amazing vocal performance sound even better than it originally did.Īutotune as an effect is a whole different ballgame. Yes autotune and pitch correction can fix your problems, but if you’re off-key you’ll be able to tell the work that had to be done to fix it. These tools should be used to do small corrections, not to be a safety for your sloppy vocal skills. If the vocalist is focused and on key, you won’t even hear the pitch correction if done correctly.
Even if an artist has perfect pitch it’s unheard of for a lead vocal not be pitch corrected, even if it’s just the tiniest amount. Let’s be real for a second, there are very few artists that have perfect pitch. The way I see it is that there’s two way of using autotune/pitch correction, as a tool and as an effect. Probably the most controversial of the bunch, but without a doubt the most influential in modern-day recording. Let’s discuss these changes and see how they affected modern day vocal recording. The use of autotune, pitch correction, vocoders, talkboxes, vocals chops, and other various techniques have inspired entirely new music genres and new ways of recording and processing vocals. Over the past years, we have seen massive changes in the way we use vocals in songs. Songs have been used to tell stories for centuries and are the embodiment of our artistic outlet. The word song literally means “a work of music meant to be sung”. We’ve talked about multiple ways to drastically change your guitar tones, micing drums and using the room tones to give a certain characteristic to your sound, but what are some technological innovations we have made to altering vocals?įrom the very first point that humans started recording sound, there’s always been one element that was the most vital, vocals. There is no certain way to do anything and just when you think you’re comfortable with how things are, something new swoops in. It’s always been fascinating to me that the music industry is constantly changing and adapting as a rebellious move. Last month we talked about the progression of recording hardware and consumer listening formats, which if you didn’t catch you can read here. Ever since we’ve been technologically advanced enough to add computers and hardware to our existing music setup, musicians have been experimenting with various tools to find new sounds.
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