Fred ,'Smile Time'
Is it better the second time around? Or the third? Or tenth? This is the place to come when you have a burning desire to talk about an old episode that was just re-run.
Does it actually fix your pitch (which to me means she is "bad") or does it also make your voice sound more pleasant?
Autotune can fix issues with pitch (and punch up weak or breathy sounding voices, IIRC), but it can't add warmth or other things that make "pretty" voices.
I loved SMG's performance in OMWF. That took real guts and she pulled it off just fine. There was no need to be a perfect singer in the context of the story. She did great!
By her not thinking she had to be, I meant more that signing on as "Buffy", who would think that would happen?
So the complaint about Autotune is that it makes bad singers marketable? I've been kind of baffled by the hatred of Autotune, because I hear the songs that are apparently Autotuned, and I can't hear the complaints. They don't sound fake or computer generated, just competently sung.
I am generally bad at "hearing" things, but I can hear some of the autotune artifacts, and at least some people are overdoing it, because it's a weird metallic sensation in my ears. Drives me nuts.
I am generally bad at "hearing" things, but I can hear some of the autotune artifacts, and at least some people are overdoing it, because it's a weird metallic sensation in my ears. Drives me nuts.
Autotune, in the hands of someone VERY GOOD, can be made "invisible". But that's not the effect that a lot of singers/producers are using it for - they want that weird metallic sound.
Even when it's not overdone like that, it still can be pretty obvious. It's one of the reasons I was never able to get into the show Glee. The obvious autotune made me grind my teeth.
But that's not the effect that a lot of singers/producers are using it for - they want that weird metallic sound.
Okay, maybe that's the reason I hate that music the kids are listening to these days. Because that sound makes my teeth grind.
Oh, that's AutoTune? yuck.
Hubby and I went to see Battleship today (such cheesy fun!) and at a crucial moment they were using AC/DC's "Thunderstruck" in a montage. It struck me how much 70's/80's power rock still gets used in action movies. Is the power rock genre too old school? These movies are aimed at the usual young male audience, I imagine, and I'm surprised that music that's probably older than most of the demographic is being used.
I can't really hear auto tune (except for in songs like I' on a boat) but my understadning s that they sutotune everyone of glee. But, there are people (Lea Michele, Jenna Ushkawitz) who have clearly been able to sing in other context. So that is confusing.
It struck me how much 70's/80's power rock still gets used in action movies. Is the power rock genre too old school? These movies are aimed at the usual young male audience, I imagine, and I'm surprised that music that's probably older than most of the demographic is being used.
My niece Kim, the heavy metal rock goddess, thinks 70s/80s power rock is AWESOME. Metallica is the grandfather of everything she loves.
She's 29 now, but she's been "into" it for ten years.