by Francis Tue Sep 15, 2009 2:44 am
chris murray's vocal parts are pretty much the simplest things in the world, though.
his songs are just around chords I, IV & V, almost without exception.
i think probably the most defencible thing about autotune is that if a vocalist is concentrating on singing something perfectly in tune, then they're likely not going to be able to sing the parts with the intensity/passion/whatever as if they were singing live (where there isn't the pressure of scrunity afterwards)
i know definitely from experience that i've recorded takes which were slightly out of tune, but were a really good performance, and so it was easier to just slightly neaten up the tuning, than try and get a fresh recording with the same intensity and be perfectly in tune.
p.s. with regards to summers' post on the first page - brass auto tune isn't use to simply replace tuning up the instruments!
it's used because of the intonation between different brass/wind instruments, and also because with brass/wind the tuning of every single note is very much down to the player's embouchure (MOUTH) (and with trombone it's a whole world of difficulty), and therefore that makes layering brass parts perfectly in tune more difficult than layering several guitar parts.
and you're a brass player, surely you should know this.
done.
