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In Reply to: Digital Pitch Correction..... posted by Todd Krieger on April 2, 2007 at 21:52:31:
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It really puts a clear perspective on a major reason why music in recent time has gone in the toilet.....I've noticed this "generic" vocal sound prior to your revelation, but I had no clue why that came to be, until your revelation. The thing about it is that it's not that difficult to recognize. (The most depressing part of that Biancha Ryan clip was everybody falling over themselves in their praise, as if they stumbled across the next Judy Garland or something.)
This type of music has become accepted because there are so few alternatives.
And if you notice, even before you brought forth your revelation, if you check out my links to YouTube, what do you notice about them? Sometimes, the raw emotion of the singer makes up for any technical deficiencies he or she might have.
I have never encountered such magic from a singer enhanced by pitch correction.
The link- I've referenced this performance before. The singer, I think in her late teens or early 20s, struggles to maintain her composure, and a raw, almost "child-like" quality comes out at times, a tonal complexity that really makes this performance special.
And sadly, this raw emotional element is what's being murdered by digital processing. The change in vocal tone, the inflections, the seduction, the essence of performance, is lost. And it cannot be recovered.
The best way to demonstrate the ills of pitch correction is with examples devoid of it. It's so depressing that performances like this have become so scarce.
but calm reflection indicated a lot of correspondence, and thought that it may not be productive, so why bother...I simply suggest that you reconsider whether what you wrote could be misinterpreted, or whether you did indeed mean the comments exactly as stated...
I'll leave it at that...
Bill.
"I simply suggest that you reconsider whether what you wrote could be misinterpreted, or whether you did indeed mean the comments exactly as stated..."
You have indeed spared me much correspondence...
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I bet you there are some audiophiles out there who are into music that uses this type of vocal processing, but they don't realize it. And they've been blowing thousands to get midrange performance that is impossible to attain.
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