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In Reply to: RE: Where are your musical tastes taking you? posted by Byrd69 on July 19, 2017 at 18:54:38
If it doesn't have Auto-Tune, I'll listen to just about anything.........
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are you STILL WHINING about that?
...regards...tr
"are you STILL WHINING about that?"
What should I do, just grin and bear it??
If Auto-Tune didn't engulf half of today's popular music, I wouldn't be complaining about it.
But it is not only being used in over 95 percent of recent popular music, it's also being used in remastered classics. Our music is being mutilated before our very ears.
And we then turn around wondering why younger people aren't interested in quality sound reproduction anymore.
in some cases, it has been embraced as another effect to use such as noise gating, echo, etc. as in attempting to make someone sound in tune, a POS.
...regards...tr
to listen to 'pop' music because it is 'pop' music, with its effects.
Or to listen to musicians making music without questionable interference, which is what this hobby started out as, and remains, for me.
The 'music industry' product began to get the 80/20 rule from me, now I'm at 95/5 because I too am tired of amusical production.
Warmest
Tim Bailey
Skeptical Measurer & Audio Scrounger
"Or to listen to musicians making music without questionable interference, which is what this hobby started out as, and remains, for me."This is a requisite for high-fidelity sound reproduction..... Reproducing the live event as faithfully as possible. If the performance is altered, even in the name of "enhancement" or "improvement", the essence of the live event is compromised. It would be like taking high-quality photos of photoshopped pictures, the enhancements ruin everything.
I'll say it again, can you imagine someone spending hours trying to get the midrange right on his audio system, not realizing the entire time that the problem with the midrange was the Auto-Tune on the recording........
Edits: 07/22/17
well, my tuning capability for changing a radio station or hitting skip on the disc player or the vinyl i place on my tt isn't impaired. and if you ask anybody that knows me, it is an eclectic bunch of choices that i make.
trilok gurtu, for instance, doesn't use auto-tune (nor does kurt elling. contrary to todd's opinion) and he is prominent in my preferences of late. i also doubt that cecile mc lorin salvant uses it. ?YELLO? i dunno nor care as long as they keep doing what they do.
...regards...tr
Kurt Elling was blasted by music critics for using Auto-Tune in later albums..... (Most performers got away with this, but apparently not Elling. His own site admits use of it- link below.) His popularity declined in recent time..... I think his problem was that his real voice was a known entity (unlike a lot of pop stars who always use Auto-Tune), and his use of enhancements was obvious to even casual listeners.
Another victim was Adele, who during her 2016 Grammys performance, the Auto-Tune cut out, revealing her actual voice on national TV..... Her popularity since that gaffe hasn't been the same either.
If you've noticed, I stopped criticizing singers for off-key singing. Several years ago. I'd rather listen to unadulterated Elling or even Streisand than anybody who's Auto-Tuned.
where was the auto tune reference?
...regards...tr
"Suddenly, I'm not half the man I used to be. 'Cause now I'm an amputee" J. Lennon
that was really damning. it's like a scandal or something. it's funny though, i have seen him many times live and close enough to hear the voice and not speakers. never once did he come CLOSE to needing AT.
...regards...tr
You might have a talent as a political writer..... [-;
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