Re: harmonizer

Tony Done wrote:


"Craig 'Lumpy' Lemke" wrote in message
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the_cat wrote:
On Jan 10, 12:58 pm, "Craig 'Lumpy' Lemke" <lu...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
> jtees and cat:
>
> > > I will admit...the demo sounds really good, but I believe there
> > > is a lot of programming that went into that. I could be wrong.
> > You're not.I had one for a week-& too it back .. (I'll bet there
> > is a reason it's been in a box for a year).
>
> The professional audio recording engineers have specialists
> that they call to have them do the auto tune on their recordings.
> To think that a hundred dollar pedal would come anywhere close
> to replacing the professional method would be like saying
> "I could build a Mercedes. I'll go down to Home Depo and get
> a welder and some bolts, I've got some metal scraps out back..."
>
> It's not like there aren't singers out there that can
> actually sing on pitch.
>
> Lump


cat:
Yeah but this thing cost ~ $800-$900 , so it should be 9x better than
$100 crap ...
uhh 9 x zero is still zero... hmmmmm

True that.
I'll amend my statement.
To think that a 900 dollar pedal would come anywhere close to
25 thousand dollars worth of software and a professional audio
engineer...etc.

Bottom line, doesn't matter who does it, it sounds like crap
at the slightest hint of obviousness. And at absolute best
it tries to make up for not having a singer who can do the
job to begin with.

Why would it seem odd to expect a singer to be in tune?
Maybe Pt hires guitar players that can't play in tune and
expects that to get fixed by autocorrection.

Damn ionian mode.


Lump

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I had never heard of vocal pitch correction until it was mentioned in
this group. How long as it been around, since tape? I can imagine the
fun they would have had slowing down and speeding up tapes, then trying
to get the tempo right again.

Tony D




TC Electronic (rather TC Helicon) makes a lot of these devices - among them is a vocal corrector. Personally, I like the smaller two-button stomp ones - and I want them for use in post-production in my project studio, not for performance. I also imagine that I could pass just about any signal I'd want through them...vox or instrument. In that case I'd rather have numerous smaller, simpler building blocks available in my arsenal, but I also feel the same about using them for performance - less is more.

I just think they'd be handy...like Lump said - you can sing and/or play *or* tune, but you can't sing and/or play *and* tune and think you'll get much good out of them.

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- Rufus
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