Autotune

[Snake-Pit]

Brace your selfs.

Who knows about Autotune?

I heard it was invented just after the Spice Girls album Spice, so I guess they could sing.

[Len Cnut]

It is what it is, it's a tool and a useful to help achieve certain effects etc, i think it's kinda disingenous to just use it as a substitute for your own voice though.

[Towelie]

You do know that original video is a fake though, don't you?

[Snake-Pit]

You do know that original video is a fake though, don't you?

I do, now, jajaja

I guess the accents were a giveaway, juj esse.

[Jakey Styley]

Autotune in the T-Pain/Kanye/Hip Hop sense shouldn't be looked down upon. Not every good songwriter's a singer nor do they have to be, and power to them if they found a tool that allows them to express their creativity in a way they previously wouldn't have been able to. Not to mention, it has a specific sound and can be a valid artistic tool to achieve a certain sound.

[AxlisOld]

You do know that original video is a fake though, don't you?

I do, now, jajaja

I guess the accents were a giveaway, juj esse.

So you just fall for any video on the internet? I imagine an entire society of you shitting themselves when War of the Worlds was broadcast.

[bacardimayne]

If you can't sing without autotune, you shouldn't sing at all.

Similarly, if you can't make your guitar sound loud and distorted without an amp, you shouldn't play guitar at all.

[Dan H.]

If you use it creatively or artistically as a vocal distortion tool, then I don't see a problem with it anymore than vocorders.

Although I don't really care when people use it as a way to shine up their vocals. Sometimes it sounds shitty and sometimes it sounds okay.

[maynard]

It leads to some hilarious moments when the same songs are played live and the "artist" is not using playback.

There are some songs where autotune is used creatively, no problem there.

[Zeppelin]

Just like a lot of things you can insert into songs, it can sound good or it can sound shitty. Depends how it's used.

[Snake-Pit]

... I imagine an entire society of you...

Wooooow!

Everyone'll be fucking or getting stoned or growing up wanting to do that for the survival of this wonderous society, who may well have indeed shit their pants to some War of the Worlds broadcast if they wasn't listening to radio porn or jamming to tunage.

But nonetheless, I don't have to imagine a society shitting their pants to a War of the Worlds broadcast because, it's already happened and;

[bran]

using it sparingly here or there can be alright, but to me personally it irritates the shit out of me.

[Chris1989]

Anybody hear the Britney Spears pre-Autotune leaks last year? Bloody horrific (Not that she's any better with autotune though..)

[Dan H.]

MBDTF Ida great album example of creative autotune.

808s is hit or miss. Some songs (like Heartless) haven't aged well.

Robot Cop and Street Lights still sounds great though

[chevelle]

As a vocal effect, it's fine, or even to touch up a note here or there on an otherwise good vocal take, but I can't stand people who use it as a crutch because they can't actually sing.