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Was just listening to Just A Little Lovin by Shelby Lynne. I notice on her vocals a sort of muffled sound or slight distortion. Am I hearing simply compression on her vocal or is this the sound of the dreaded autotune. I have noticed this sound on many recent vocal recordings. Any Guesses?
Alan
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If you can upload the track, we could provide an answer..... I can't say "Auto-Tune" without actually listening to the track.
Auto-Tune is a very easy thing to recognize, once you learn how to recognize it...... (It can be recognized in less than five seconds in a lot of cases.)
And while Ivan's "DAC" comment may have intended to be a joke, it is actually true.... The more resolving the DAC/source/system, the more grating the Auto-Tune becomes.
I just sampled the track on YouTube..... It is Auto-Tune'd.....
Whether that was what annoyed you, hard to say........
Capitol records specialized in vocals in it's early years - Peggy Lee,
Nat Cole, Sinatra, Dean Martin, et. al. Many country artists too. Listen
to some of these and see what you hear.
Those vocals are clear as a bell. I have many of them. That's why I am thinking I am hearing autotune. A recent article by a well known mastering engineer said 95% of the product he gets is autotuned and there is nothing he can do about it
Alan
"A recent article by a well known mastering engineer said 95% of the product he gets is autotuned and there is nothing he can do about it"
If it's not the mastering engineer, it must be the mixing engineer..... Can't the mixing engineer be requested not to use it? Especially if the artist doesn't want it?
Can't mixes be tweaked? I just think it's irresponsible on a studio's, producer's, or record label's part if the mix is final, and cannot be tweaked or redone. There is so much stress on "getting the job done at minimal cost", nobody seems to care if the job isn't done right.
There are too many engineers and producers who add Auto-Tune to their releases, just for the heck of it, thinking nobody will notice it. But people are noticing it, and are as mad as hell...........
Oh my.
Just a guess, mind you.
That is true but I also hear it on my Teredak Chamelion which is not a super revealing dac and I heard it when I used to play cds on the Sony 5400es.
Alan
Enjoy your new DAC! :-)
Thanks for letting me know it was a joke
I am enjoying my new dac very much
Alan
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