Just Heard a Really Cool Auto-Tune Application!

I was listening to the Sirius station on XM that replaced 80, and heard Trona doing "Jaded Love." They were running Auto-Tune as a backup vocal to the main vocal, so even though you heard the main vocal front and center with the various vocal nuances, you heard the "corrected" vocal in the background - it was just different enough to add a really cool effect.

I think that is a brilliant idea, just wish I'd thought of it!

I did it on a recent track that I was in a hurry to get out (it had a

) and didn't want to cut a pair of good doubled vocals so I slapped some AT on the worse of my two scratches and edited it closer to the better, which I left pretty much intact. It's still pretty sloppy but the AT effect tends to be covered for the most part and it captures the idea. Sorta.

 

Recently I heard something with some fairly obvious AT on one double and the main vocal more ore less unaffected. So it seems to be something that's occurred to multiple people

Yes, Autotune is the new ADT, used that quite a bit. You can also autotune only your reverb sends etc. But my favourite plugin is still the Craig Anderton QuadraFuzz!

 

Martin

Hey Blue, checked your tune, cool! Pretty topical just now, see how the double works well. Are the drums real? Kinda Steve Gadd.

 

Anyway, to get back to the thread, don't have AT but have the V-vocal in Sonar 6PE, may try some of this. Cool idea, thanks Mr. Craig!

Right now there is some seriously creative use of AT in the Hip Hop world. Kanye, T Pain , those guys are jumping in and having a blast. Pretty fun.

 

They were running Auto-Tune as a backup vocal to the main vocal, so even though you heard the main vocal front and center with the various vocal nuances, you heard the "corrected" vocal in the background - it was just different enough to add a really cool effect.

 

 

Say, that is a unique idea. Cool.

Ive done this on a few occasions.

If the raw vox is actually in tune in spots (LOL) and the AT doesnt touch the signal you can shift in/out of a phasey interaction between the two tracks.

 

About 30-50ms of delay on the AT track can fix that.

Hey Blue, checked your tune, cool! Pretty topical just now, see how the double works well. Are the drums real? Kinda Steve Gadd. Anyway, to get back to the thread, don't have AT but have the V-vocal in Sonar 6PE, may try some of this. Cool idea, thanks Mr. Craig!

 

Thanks, D! I was a little reluctant to put it up because it exposes my habitual sloppiness so cruelly. But... well, I am what I am, I guess.

 

Actually the robo-tuning I used was V-Vocal.

 

With re drums, while I started out with the drums going through BFD's sound module, I ended up cobbling together a blend of Sonar's Session Drummer and one of the drum kits (brushes, no doubt) in the Roland TTS-1 synth that came with Sonar (or Sonar Pro) 6. (I only have BFD 1.5, which, insanely, has no brushes. I like BFD overall but I was pretty disappointed in the original samples, which all had precisely the same overly live studio sound. I'm on a audio budget freeze or I might have upgraded to 2 and/or the jazz add-on. But, frankly, I was annoyed enough with the lack of brushes and imprinted studio room sound that I'd probably still think twice.)

 

 

I like Martin's idea of robo-tuning the vocal sends to the reverb. OTOH, I use inreasingly little reverb... that said, you never can tell when my personal preference cycles will start swinging the other way. Since so much pop crap is now relatively dry, that may well push me to go wet...

Wow! A positive Autotune thread!

Wow! A positive Autotune thread!

 

Blaming autotune itself is silly. It's the people (and their choices on how to apply it) that are the problem.

 

Or, as Laurie Anderson said, it's not the bullet that kills you. It's the hole.