Here is a new Madonna song called Revolver (featuring Lil Wayne) that comes off her greatest hits CD. It sounds like a Britney Spears left over track with a robot singing. It may not even be Madonna singing..
How can we get every artist to agree to stop using auto-tune?
Good luck on this. The robots took over the human race!
well…start by adding my facebook group, FUCK AUTO TUNE.
Jay Z’s “DOA (Death of Autotunes)” practically killed it in hip hop with artist like Ron Browz and Ghostface going back to the lab.
I’ll admit I used the effect on one track but that was only after reading how you could do the effect in Garageband with no plugin. Lol
Auto-tune started out as a gimmick, but now everyone is using it hoping to make a quick buck. Singers like Madonna and Mariah Carey are too vocally talented to be using it in the first place. All it does is make everyone song sound the same, which makes for very mediocre albums.
My opinion on it is that it’s a fad. I can remember back in the day when every guitar player wanted an MXR phase shifter. Everyone had one. Everyone sounded the same. Breakfast In America is a classic with it. After a while it became passe and now even corny to a degree.
The human voice is not perfect. That’s the charm of it. There are incredibly talented singers, ie jazz and operatic, that rarely waver more than a few cents. Ella Fitzgerald comes to mind. Scary intonation.
Artists should not sing wrong notes either, myself included. It is a challange especially during recording. Also consider that back in the day of reel to reel tape, there was no re-re-cording, you’d get audio loss regardless if you were at Abbey Road or in your garage. Every erase is audio loss. So that left open tracks to sing and re-sing the same parts. Double tracking, which the Beatles did is a method. But those guys could just plain ol sing, and on key and live no less but I digress.
Well sorry for the novel. Nothing takes the place of dedication. Compulsive repetition is the key to sucess.
I believe you’ll be able to pick up an Anteres for $50 USD in a couple years and sound passe using it with your MXR phase shifter.
For whatever it’s worth.
Don’t Give Up On Love,
Jimmy
If you think auto tune is bad, wait till you get a load of the plug in by celemony called Melodyne. Now not only do you not have to be able to sing but you can also play your instruments out of key and out of time as well and it will put them in perfect time and key for you. And the best part is!!!!!! Melodyne is only a little over $200! Real musicians are about to become a “fad” of pre mallenium. SAD!