Comments on: Rick Beato on autotune

By: Art Deco

Art Deco — Wed, 29 Dec 2021 17:46:36 +0000

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KobbZ8VDI00

Fabian

By: Alison

Alison — Wed, 29 Dec 2021 16:54:43 +0000

Beato’s Youtube channel is endlessly fascinating. I watch quite often.

By: ObloodyHell

ObloodyHell — Wed, 29 Dec 2021 06:44:57 +0000

It’s obvious that your auto should be tuned on a regular basis.

And that THAT is the ONLY auto that should be tuned.

By: fast+richard

fast+richard — Wed, 29 Dec 2021 06:00:40 +0000

Joni Mitchell’s vocal gymnastics and unusual instrument tunings add interest and character to her music. She really is the opposite of autotune. Rick Beato tells about how thrilled he was to actually get to meet her.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Irc2UXjhiV8

By: buddhaha

buddhaha — Wed, 29 Dec 2021 03:00:29 +0000

It used to be a lot harder, but speeding up and slowing the tape to correct out of tune notes.was a staple of ’60s hearthrob singer’s recordings. Listen carefully to most of Fabian’s early records. The splices are obvious.

He was a created product, long before the Monkees. He was handsome as all hell, the girls swooned and bought his records… who cares if he actually had any singing talent.

After a couple of years he had taken enough vocal lessons that he could actually carry a tune in a bucket. He wouldn’t be invited to sing at the Met, but he became… competent.

An old girlfriend described to me his appeal as “another good-looking wop from Philly.”

By: Zaphod

Zaphod — Wed, 29 Dec 2021 02:15:30 +0000

LMJ:

“Superbly simple”

You live up to your name. Confucius would approve.

If you like that purity and simplicity, you’ll probably also enjoy anything by Ana Caram on the Chesky Records label.

By: Le Mot Juste

Le Mot Juste — Wed, 29 Dec 2021 02:06:45 +0000

Zaphod: Danke for that link. Superbly simple.

By: TommyJay

TommyJay — Wed, 29 Dec 2021 01:37:10 +0000

Thanks Griffin. That was interesting. I figured Rick had something to say about her, though I hadn’t tried searching for it yet.

While I did sing some in school, I can’t say I was particularly good or learned much beyond basic competency. So the following may or may not true.

I think serious singers often begin some notes a tiny bit sharp and then come into the correct pitch. And while they generally try to avoid “flatting” a note, that too can be an intentional style element, bringing a little sourness or darkness to a phrase. In light of that, it amuses me that Rick (in Neo’s link) says that many of these autotuning singers just aren’t very good singers.

By: Mac

Mac — Wed, 29 Dec 2021 01:29:06 +0000

I don’t know that I would notice the more subtle uses of Autotune, as on the Lenny Kravitz track. But when it’s used to create that humanly impossible warbly thing, as on one or two of the others he mentions ….I’m trying to keep my language under control here but I really find that unendurable. And I won’t endure it if I can possibly make it stop, or get away. It makes me want to punch something.

By: Zaphod

Zaphod — Wed, 29 Dec 2021 00:32:47 +0000

Too much fakery all round.

This is how it should be done:

Rebecca Pidgeon — Spanish Harlem
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uKkeWt2MxWM

Mrs David Mamet, a few instruments, one microphone, no layered tracks, no autotune, no funny business at all.

YouTube audio is low quality, so best listened to from the original CD or with lossless streaming.

Her voice should be floating in the centre of the soundstage and to the right of her you can hear the maracas moving around in three dimensions.