How To Use Auto-Tune For Natural Pitch Correction (or an effect) - RecordingRevolution.com
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Auto-Tune has been around for decades now and is a game changing production tool. Love it or hate it, it's here to stay.
But HOW you use it can make or break your vocal tracks.
Most people want to use Autotune in a natural, discrete manner so that the listener never knows that there was any pitch correction. This tutorial will show you how to do that.
At the end of the video I'll also show you how to get that obvious T-Pain or Cher AutoTune effect - in case you want to go in that direction!
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Good looks on this video dude. I produce, write, rap, and sing my own music. But now I'm getting more into the habit of mixing and editing my songs as well. Audio engineers don't get enough credit, folk🤘🏼
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@@ajlorig3485 this is True.
Everyone says that autotune is "cheating," but it's just another tool to enhance the mix, like EQ or compression.
I totally agree, I was watching a movie last night and that song “the blowers daughter“ came on. It’s a beautiful tune, vocals are very expressive, but there’s one part where he’s just really flat.
It wouldn’t hurt anybody for them to just bump that up slightly so that we noticed the expression not the out of tune note.
Like you said, just another tool in our box
Yep for example all artist like Charlie Puth, Brendon Urie, Billie Eillish, Sub Urban, etc..... Use it to make effects on their voice whether to make it sound creepy, clean, airy , etc.....
Autotune is an instrument I lvoe it.
Jude Alex Travis Scott is my inspiration tbh, he works heavy autotune like it’s an instrument and he does it perfectly
yea yea but u should always remember how wonderful and talented singers had to be back in the good old days without this tool
I love that you didn't shy away from praising God while sharing your talent. Big ups bro; all for HIS glory.
That reverb delay combo on the vocal is super nice
This works very well on classic major or minor keys. But when you're singing blues or rock, where you're doing a lot of sliding in or tightening notes, it's not so simple. It starts to correct stuff it thinks is wrong, but was actually intended to be that way. I've found that in that kind of situation, you almost have to do it manually on a note-by-note basis. Very time-consuming, to say the least, but it gets better results.
blues souns better with no autotune anyway. Having things very natural, I find, is when i enjoy it most
For things like blues or rock, I'd recommend Melodyne instead. Gives you more of that control and humanism that you're looking for without sacrificing the vocal tuning
Hi Graham, I love when you & your friend Joe Gilder do these "short" & to the point videos. They have really helped my mixes... now I have more time to get back to recording!
Thanks for a brilliant video, to educate me , a 67 year old idiot who does like to play guitar and sing, both very badly might I add, is a feat in itself but I understand much more , I will now look at all your videos , big thanks from Garry in the UK
My boi graham loves the Lord 😭😭😭🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
Amen Bro.
amen
Amen
YES HE DOES!
Amen
THANK YOU, LORD FOR SAVING MY SOUL.
That's a good learning tool to use. U can see exactly where you're flat or sharp.
Especially if u don't have a good ear
I love your voice! God bless you!
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Could you do a vidoe on melodyn stYle of pitch corrections for when you have to work with terrible vocals haha
Check his channel, there is already one on there.
Can you use text correction?
Thank you about to get this certification in the next few weeks!
It was a pleasant suprise to find that the sample song is a worship song!
I enjoyed your video. I've watched a few that were very long-winded. Your video was very easy to understand and follow for pitch correction. Thanks!
I find that for my own stuff the most important aspect of using autotune (as a fix, not as an "effect") is to automate when to turn it on or off, and to automate the depth (amount) and/or the wet-dry mix. Most importantly, any places where a syllable is meant to be a gradient from one note to another, autotune must off. Assuming you don't want that "staircase" sound.
Typically I will have just one or two notes that need strong autotune, such as a long held vowel ("seeeeeee...") that had an unfortunate drift in the take. Here I might go 80%/20% wet/dry, or (rarely) 100% wet. And I wouldn't have the entire word be strongly autotuned, but rather automate from a starting level of 20% or less wet before the word starts, then slope it up over ~200ms to max wet just after the consonant has finished and the long vowel gets going. I experiment until the transition cannot be noticed, and the effect is doing all good, no harm.
Elsewhere the singing will have no autotune. Or depending on the song a light amount (20% wet) mixed in throughout, which, I discovered accidentally, can bring some depth and richness to a vocal, kind of like adding a better version of yourself as a backing vocalist. :-)
When in doubt though, I leave it off. A little bit of tonal inaccuracy is human and is part of the vocal character. And anymore I will record 12+ takes of the same vocal, to end up with one or two takes of each phrase or word that isn't noticeably flawed.
@mesamarshall Yes you are right, less than 100% wet/dry creates a messy chorus effect, including phasing, not a clean sound. And if there is noticeable beating, that's ugly. Wet 20% has worked for me at times as an effect for an entire vocal, but like everything it is a matter of taste. ... For some reason 100% autotune always sounds weird and unusable to me.
I mostly use autotune to record other takes to. By that I mean I'll have a sort of scratch track, put autotune on it. Then record other takes on top of that without autotune. Kind of like drumming to a click, but with singing
Hey, thanks for the helpful content in these videos and love how you have the courage to use your worship songs for these videos.
Thank you for the great lesson. Nice song BTW.
Still making music, we miss you here on recordingrevolution!
The guide is incredible Graham ! Greatly appreciated ! Keep it up :)
Very clear and very informative tutorial! Many thanx RecordingRevolution!!!
Thank you so much for detailed information. I mostly record worship songs in Acoustic guitar and vocal. But sometimes i sing flat which sounds awful. I have never use Autotune but i will try to use this time.
Thank you.
Best guide for ATP and subbed, thanks man!
Thankyou so much. But now I want to know where that song is... I love that song.
Really? A song about Jesus? That’s what gets you excited? Those are the songs you just truly gotta go find huh
@@scka6190 Why don't you just fuck off
@@scka6190 if thats makes you an athiest being a bad guy , i dont like to be an atheist or satanist 🤮
7:45 this man spittin 🗣️
I don't think I can ever thank you enough.
Excellent! I’m getting auto-tune because of your video.
You know, i've always thought that Auto-tune is just another way for people with no gifting to sing, to get in the music business as a "singer". Unfortunately a lot of times, it's true 😕. Great walk through though man. Good job.
The song was really nice I really liked it
I sure would love to learn from you! Man thanks for this!
Thanks for the lesson and free booklet. God bless!
Great video Graham!!
Hey Graham, I like your videos better than most because you explain things better and I love your music you share. I am very old school at the old type of recording and very new to all the new digital stuff. If I have a inter face can I use auto tune pro with it, or is auto tune all I need for a great recording. Thanks for your help. God Bless Terry
Awesome man. And I love that song. Praise God!
Great Tutorial, and I also Love the song, are you singing it (Your Voice)? because it sounds pretty good.
Excellent work! Five stars!
Great video
You sir are a legend
Is there a version for pro tools 12?
Hey there Graham. Nice vocals. I wasn't aware you were a religious guy. Right on. Do you (as an artist) focus mainly on the praise stuff, or do you make regular/secular stuff as well? You seem like a rock guy to me.
I do both
thanx again ...
this is exactly what i was looking for i prefer auto tune efx 2 or 3 those were SOOO easy to use unfortunately theyre discontinued and i havent been able to find a product page to buy it or anything if that wasnt enough i think you need iLok for it anyway RIP
imprintaftah they replaced it with a new one called auto tune efx+ it’s also very simple to use and has a lot of cool effects
Very nice. I’ve been avoiding auto tune because as an effect it’s so overly used it’s comical at this point but as I’m learning to sing and recording tracks I was thinking of sneaking a little auto tune in
Great Singer 😊
Great song! What version of Autotune are you using? Just want the basic correction... Not weird effects. Thank you for this video.
Melodyne is a really really good software
I personally use and its dope
I usually record three different tracks, place them on playlist and then go phrase by phrase choosing which one sounds better.
not a bad idea. and totally works from a mix engineer point of view were quality of sound is king. but i wonder that those technical choices wouldn't amount to a great big picture kind of view a producer or musician should have, or what a fan would hear. just something to consider if you're wearing all the hats, (fulfilling all the roles,) which i know many of us are these days.
I'll do that for the lead vocals, but I don't want to spend that much time on harmonies and backgrounds. And as long as the comp'd lead is on pitch, (most) people aren't paying enough attention to notice if the backups sound tuned, they just hear a chord behind a lead
I do this too but I haven’t used auto tune before
Great vid. Well-explained.
Thank you and thank you for the guide
This is the second tut I'm watching from your channel. Thanks for the heart of sharing.
How would your vocal chain look like? I use Logic Pro X .. God bless you
Love how you use slight autotune to even talk :D
your song is very beautiful ... what is the title of your song?
Hallelujah brother I can’t wait for that day when I will kiss his feet!
Can I ask you which plug-ins you suggest for a female vocal using Apollo twin UA?
I have a passion for classic rock and love playing them on my electric guitar but my voice sucks so I need auto tune
The song was great! Where can we find the full song?
hey Graham wow you are so cool with your music and tips and advice! you should release that song i love it!! Where can i listen to it?!
Man Graham auto-tuned his voice especially for this video too LOL 1:55
lool I just heard that
God bless you.
Thanks so much for your help! How would you find the right key if you don't know exactly which key the vocals are in?
Use Autokey plugin
Praise God.
Very nice.
Really helpful. Thanks 👍
good job bro
Thank You Graham!
Why are there comment from 7 hours ago when it was uploaded less than one hour ago
Thanks
God bless☀️🎶
thank u🧡
Thank you for the lesson. I love your your song too.
T-Pain approved!
Cher - Believe.
Hey where can I listen to this whole song? Sounds great and I need some spiritual encouragement
can we use it for Indian instrument like bansauri flute and sitar and Veena too
It's interesting that the second this auto tune is on, it makes the vocals sound 2D. I don't know if it's because of the algorithm, the settings or the concept altogether. Maybe it's all of them combined.
Depend on where u put it on your vocal chain.... It should be the first plug in on your chain
How do you "add a note" to customize the scale?
Will it sound better to pitch correct and then use autotune
who can I hire to do this for me? need help asap. or a very good tutorial. thank you brotherS!
For what is this Key? I dont understand. If someone sing, there are many key-changes, means pitch in the voice. What does this 1 Key means?
Is this song released .....? Sound awesome ......
Hey I wanted to ask, is autotune native to your DAW
Thank you, so much 🎶🙂
this might be a dumb question but what does the natural vibrato knob do????
What's that song bro?
totally random question dude, how do you distribute your music? I mean as a Christian artist, is distrokid okay to use? Does Chiristian music get distributed as much?
What software is it? My singing voice is not manly and like to sing country music songs.
what is the name of that song??
If you can tell the difference that well, how did you sing flat in the first place? :D
thank you!!! 🙏🏽
This may sound dumb, but how are you able to tell the key of the song?
Hey! Thnx! What would yku overall recommend for vocal tuning autotune or melodyne? Mostly for pop songs
what would you do if they need autotune on all vocals?
Quick question if you happen to know...
Waves tune gives me the ability to take one note and make it slightly sharp or flat (Without affecting the entire performance).
Can I do that with autotune?
Sooooo... was that a “thumbs up” as in YES it does... or was that a “like” because you have the same question?
Thanks 😊
Yes u can, graphic mode, automation or remove.
Cool
Thanks 🙏
One of the best on Autotune, thanks friend, can you please do one with advanced editing with line tool also .
What version of pro tools has this particular auto tune plug in?
You have a beautiful voice
How do you determine what key you are singing in thank you awesome vids
Jason Deal figure out what chord the song ends or starts on (resolves to). 9 X out of 10 that will be the key your song is in.
@@sevenlevels234 thank you I'm just a beginner just starting out wanting to learn how to produce music but I can play guitar and write music a little bit just looking for a hobby thank you for the info
Learn the major and minor scales. Use the first and/or last chords as a starting point, because like Seven Levels said, most of the time the root of those chords will also be the tonic pitch of the key. Look at your melody and compare it with the notes in the scale for the key you think it is. If it all fits exactly within that scale, or if only one note differs in one spot in your song, you've probably found it. If you have one note that keeps recurring, or if you're finding a lot of notes outside the key, then you probably need to re-evaluate which note is your tonic for the key.
One thing to keep in mind is a song's key center isn't necessarily constant throughout the song. Many songs will borrow just a single chord from a closely related key for a moment before going back to the main key, or may switch to a different key entirely for a section. Those are more advanced concepts though and don't happen super often, but if you're ever trying to figure out a key and keep running into just one weird chord and/or section that throws it off, it might be something like this.
AutoKey in Autotune 9 Pro
I'm getting clicks and pops how do I fix that?
Where do you put autotune in the mix chain ? After or before EQ, comp ect...
Always the first plugin
But what if you don't know what key your song is in? Did the autotune tell you that your song is in the key of D or did you just know that on your own?
Hey great video! Where do I find the software?