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(formerly miserneil)
Effects for Me & my Monkey YouTube channel Facebook Fretboard's "resident pedal supremo" - mgaw
My band, Red For Dissent
My band, Red For Dissent
Farting got two pages in SC.
I'm not against using Melodyne to fix "a few" slightly off notes in an otherwise perfect studio take for an album release to save doing another 20 to get an equally good take at extreme expense. I've had to spend hours in the past re-playing solos to fix the fact I didn't quite nail a bend in an otherwise spot on take. The studio technology is there, so why not use it? If you subsequently can't pull it off live, then tough, you're still a bit shit
I went to a seminar by Presonus a while back that had one guy with an acoustic lay down a one take guitar and vocal performance and then demo'd Melodyne. They manipulated single notes within chords and vocals in one track! And turned a major song into minor one, vocals and all, that was quite freaky.
Used well, the tech is brilliant. To say otherwise is like saying we should record all music live, no overdubs, no sffects. Back to the '40's.
It can be awesome if used creatively for sure. If Studio One didn't suck by not having a notation editor I'd have had the Producer version with full Melodyne integration a few years ago!
The reliance on it by modern producers to fix bad performances by mediocre performers is where I have the issue. People were gradually desensitized to it by Cher and Co. to the point where it became the norm to no longer hear, or rather ignore the "glitches", and it's now what the general public accept as what singing sounds like. Until they hear someone really sing, and then they're like "OMG!!!". Hence the meteoric rise every now and again of Singists who can actually do the job.
Anyhoo, rant over. And Fergie? Yep, I well would