Originally posted by: thomsbrain
Auto-Tune is used on nearly EVERY pop record made today, including rock records. Usually it is used in a more transparent method, but crank up the controls, and anyone sounds like T-Pain or Akon. But seriously, Auto-Tune has made many records hits that wouldn't have been otherwise. Some of those records are good, some aren't. Many bands and artists can thank it for their success.
Auto-Tune has made these careers possible:
Jimmy Eat World
Fall Out Boy
Hoobastank
Rhianna
Yellowcard
Limp Bizkit
and on and on...
A better question would be which albums DON'T use Auto-Tune?
A good bet is that any artist who was making albums before, say 1995, and their voice sounds more or less the same as it did then is probably not using it.
Originally posted by: Josh
Originally posted by: thomsbrain
Auto-Tune is used on nearly EVERY pop record made today, including rock records. Usually it is used in a more transparent method, but crank up the controls, and anyone sounds like T-Pain or Akon. But seriously, Auto-Tune has made many records hits that wouldn't have been otherwise. Some of those records are good, some aren't. Many bands and artists can thank it for their success.
Auto-Tune has made these careers possible:
Jimmy Eat World
Fall Out Boy
Hoobastank
Rhianna
Yellowcard
Limp Bizkit
and on and on...
A better question would be which albums DON'T use Auto-Tune?
A good bet is that any artist who was making albums before, say 1995, and their voice sounds more or less the same as it did then is probably not using it.
You might be right on some of those. But, Rihanna and Akon can both sing very well. Check out live performances of the artists to see which can actually sing (Sean Kingston for example is HORRIBLE)
Originally posted by: TheVrolok
I have no idea whether or not T-Pain can ACTUALLY sing, but I do realize that I'm sure he knows what that effect sounds like and was deliberately trying to produce it. If anyone actually believed that his voiced sounded like that, then I don't know what to say - I didn't realize anyone actually thought he was trying to pass it off as unchanged vocals. I think the effect can sound pretty cool, regardless of actual vocal talent.
Originally posted by: nkgreen
What does the Linkin Park guy use? He can't carry a tune in a bucket live, but he's on pitch in the studio.
Originally posted by: Squisher
Originally posted by: TheVrolok
I have no idea whether or not T-Pain can ACTUALLY sing, but I do realize that I'm sure he knows what that effect sounds like and was deliberately trying to produce it. If anyone actually believed that his voiced sounded like that, then I don't know what to say - I didn't realize anyone actually thought he was trying to pass it off as unchanged vocals. I think the effect can sound pretty cool, regardless of actual vocal talent.
Now this is coming from someone rap/hip-hop ignorant but, I think the issue isn't whether fans thought that voice was altered, but this tries to reveal that the alteration wasn't deliberate, but a side effect of an attempt to hide a deficit in talent.
:evil:Maybe, there is a deficit in talent in hip-hop these days.:evil:Originally posted by: TheVrolok
Originally posted by: Squisher
Originally posted by: TheVrolok
I have no idea whether or not T-Pain can ACTUALLY sing, but I do realize that I'm sure he knows what that effect sounds like and was deliberately trying to produce it. If anyone actually believed that his voiced sounded like that, then I don't know what to say - I didn't realize anyone actually thought he was trying to pass it off as unchanged vocals. I think the effect can sound pretty cool, regardless of actual vocal talent.
Now this is coming from someone rap/hip-hop ignorant but, I think the issue isn't whether fans thought that voice was altered, but this tries to reveal that the alteration wasn't deliberate, but a side effect of an attempt to hide a deficit in talent.
I imagine since the effect is pretty common in hip-hop these days it's stylistic. Akon does the same thing, as do a number of others.
Originally posted by: Squisher
:evil:Maybe, there is a deficit in talent in hip-hop these days.:evil:Originally posted by: TheVrolok
Originally posted by: Squisher
Originally posted by: TheVrolok
I have no idea whether or not T-Pain can ACTUALLY sing, but I do realize that I'm sure he knows what that effect sounds like and was deliberately trying to produce it. If anyone actually believed that his voiced sounded like that, then I don't know what to say - I didn't realize anyone actually thought he was trying to pass it off as unchanged vocals. I think the effect can sound pretty cool, regardless of actual vocal talent.
Now this is coming from someone rap/hip-hop ignorant but, I think the issue isn't whether fans thought that voice was altered, but this tries to reveal that the alteration wasn't deliberate, but a side effect of an attempt to hide a deficit in talent.
I imagine since the effect is pretty common in hip-hop these days it's stylistic. Akon does the same thing, as do a number of others.
Did I say that?