Legion
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AT is a tool like any other tool and it to takes skill to use in a good way. As somebody said it can't deliver a performance and it takes careful tweaking to get it to sound good lots of the time. As a creative effect it's like any other as well, some people don't like dist guitar, some don't like a-t vox...
Still, I think it's sad that almost everybody on radio sounds the exact same nowadays. That is not AT's fault though neither as a creative effect or simply as transparent pitch correction. I also think it's sad that many artists actually can't sing nowadays and depend on AT rather than just being able to use it as an effect.
That said, it still take skill to use. Just like programming a drum machine or gathering and putting together the right samples into a musical collage takes a lot of skill even if it's not the same skills as playing instruments but more in style with, or a new way of, composing.
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Lanceindastudio
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haha good video actually- and way funny-
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guitardog247
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Actually people still **** about samples and drum machines.
People **** about people ****ing about stuff too.....
Sonar, Les Paul Studio, FTU, puter, plugs.........
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Actually people still **** about samples and drum machines.
People **** about people ****ing about stuff too.....
right! that's why I said not to let it bother you. if that's what you want to do then do it. you're not going to please everyone.
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bapu
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haha real singing is absolutely NOT out the window! I do live gigs weekly- Auto-tune simply cannot do what I do live- It is called singing. I've had the pleasure of hearing you sing outside live. (A few years back in T.O.). Lance, you can sing. And so, if you say you use it for effect I believe you.
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SeveredVesper
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I'm merely ranting that there is practically no excuse not to sing, at all. Aww i write instumental music, does that mean i fail instantly?  JK 
Check out my band's song on YouTube!
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Lanceindastudio
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haha real singing is absolutely NOT out the window! I do live gigs weekly- Auto-tune simply cannot do what I do live- It is called singing.
I've had the pleasure of hearing you sing outside live. (A few years back in T.O.).
Lance, you can sing. And so, if you say you use it for effect I believe you.
Why thank you for that kind sir. What is T.O.? Thousand Oaks, Ca? Haha, if so, yes that was probably me... lol
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bapu
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bapu
haha real singing is absolutely NOT out the window! I do live gigs weekly- Auto-tune simply cannot do what I do live- It is called singing.
I've had the pleasure of hearing you sing outside live. (A few years back in T.O.).
Lance, you can sing. And so, if you say you use it for effect I believe you.
Why thank you for that kind sir. What is T.O.? Thousand Oaks, Ca? Haha, if so, yes that was probably me... lol
Yes, it was you. At the Janns Mall. At the time I kept saying to myself "He looks like Lance." A week or so later, I bothered to check it out on your website. Confirmed. I had wished I had talked to you at the break. Oh well, another time I'm sure.
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feedback50
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The over-use of re-tuning, sampling, etc. isn't necessarily a bad thing, but perhaps (like gated reverb, wah pedal, phaser pedals, etc.) an over indulgence in a fashionable trend that may eventually take its proper place in the tool box once the novelty has passed. My concern is more how these tools can be abused to serve recent trends in the industry. It seems that in response to declining markets the trend is for labels to become manufacturers of artists and music, rather than fulfill the role of discovering, recording, and marketing new talent. Live shows are seldom live these days. (YouTube has a few choice examples of what is really coming out of the “artists” microphone during lip syncing in a concert setting.) For three decades, music has been moving rapidly away from a pure listening experience to where merits of a piece seem more determined by elaborate stage or video production than their musical content. In many cases it’s not all that satisfying to hear the naked audio without the rest of the show (although in Whitney's recent performances, perhaps the lip sync would be preferable).
Very little popular music seems really genuine these days, and I have little faith that much of what is produced these days will be all that lasting. I find myself drifting more towards acoustic music and jazz these days, and a desire to find some shred of humanity in music.
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Philip
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... Yeh ... respecting the 'live' performer equally as much as the 'studio' performer ...
Both are as real as it gets ... reality has always been an elusive term. Paradigms die hard don't they!
... like virtuoso vs. emotive singing. Give me a fun-passionate robo-voice over feigned operatics and Michael Jackson antics!
... also 'message' hooks seem more real, IMHO, than all the skill and a-t stuff out there.
IOWs, right words seem real and forcible ... a thousand times more real than all my empty angelic jangle.
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Lanceindastudio
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bapu
Lanceindastudio
bapu
haha real singing is absolutely NOT out the window! I do live gigs weekly- Auto-tune simply cannot do what I do live- It is called singing.
I've had the pleasure of hearing you sing outside live. (A few years back in T.O.).
Lance, you can sing. And so, if you say you use it for effect I believe you.
Why thank you for that kind sir. What is T.O.? Thousand Oaks, Ca? Haha, if so, yes that was probably me... lol
Yes, it was you. At the Janns Mall. At the time I kept saying to myself "He looks like Lance." A week or so later, I bothered to check it out on your website. Confirmed. I had wished I had talked to you at the break. Oh well, another time I'm sure.
Haha! Yeah that was me! Im surprised you recognized me from the site lol. Well, thanx again for the compliment man.
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Jokerman
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timidi
people once ****ed about guitars in music.
I have it on good authority from a Decca Records rep. that Guitars are on way out... -=mike=-
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bdickens
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timidi
people once ****ed about guitars in music.
I have it on good authority from a Decca Records rep. that Guitars are on way out...
-=mike=-
*snicker*
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ohhey
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SeveredVesper
I'm merely ranting that there is practically no excuse not to sing, at all. Aww i write instumental music, does that mean i fail instantly?
JK
You could autotune your guitar maybe ?
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Legion
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I vocoded drums and guitar together once with great effect. Autotuning a solo might actually be really cool.
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ohhey
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I vocoded drums and guitar together once with great effect. Autotuning a solo might actually be really cool.
I think the best way to do it is to get each string of your guitar out of tune (sharp, flat, sharp, flat, etc) then play the same lead you would have played and see what happens. I did think of a great marketing idea. A restaurant or even a grocery store that has a paging system could hook up an auto tune box to it and have the folks who do the announcements sing each one. Folks would drive from all over just to hear it once. It would also be great fun for the employees. 
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chrome
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SeveredVesper
I'm merely ranting that there is practically no excuse not to sing, at all. Aww i write instumental music, does that mean i fail instantly?
JK
You could autotune your guitar maybe ?
yeah! I have done that, and also autotuned a violin. Works wonders, escpecially if you are looking for odd, strange sounds :)
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Legion
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It would also be great fun for the employees. Yeah, the first 150 times. Then I bet someone will go postal...
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