In case some of you guys don't know what auto tune is, it's a software that "corrects" any inconsistencies in a vocalist's pitch. So if you're singing a song in a studio and you make a tiny error that's not a big deal, but you wanna make your song perfect without having to sing it all over again you use auto tune. Unless that it you are a modern pop/rap/hip-hip/any-type-of-music-bought-on-a-large-scale. And if you lot are wondering why I'm only bringing this up now, considering that auto tune has been around for nearly a decade now just click this link http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CD2LRROpph0. It literally drove me to the brink of madness and only the sound of AC/DC's riffs and Elton Johns voice could bring me back.
Now I honestly think that if a singer can't sing without a computer, then he/she shouldn't be singing in the first place. And while I think that the use of auto tune here and there, in tiny tiny portions is okay, and sometimes the song is better off for it. But in recent times it has gone totally out of hand. I don't think that anyone my age or younger actually knows what a real singer sounds like and if asked to name one they will probably name someone like, well I wouldn't know.
Anyway what I'm trying to say is that, where is the line? In music produced out of a computer rather than with the artists hands "real" music. Is a computer a legitimate instrument? And is there any talent involved in letting your voice be changed by a program?
Now I honestly think that if a singer can't sing without a computer, then he/she shouldn't be singing in the first place. And while I think that the use of auto tune here and there, in tiny tiny portions is okay, and sometimes the song is better off for it. But in recent times it has gone totally out of hand. I don't think that anyone my age or younger actually knows what a real singer sounds like and if asked to name one they will probably name someone like, well I wouldn't know.
Anyway what I'm trying to say is that, where is the line? In music produced out of a computer rather than with the artists hands "real" music. Is a computer a legitimate instrument? And is there any talent involved in letting your voice be changed by a program?
The horrible thing is that some auto-tuners have trickled down to high school productions. One of my friends went to a musical in which the leads sang with auto-tuning microphones because, without them, they wouldn't have sounded good at all.
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