Fixing Led Zeppelin with Autotune
HTML-код
- Опубликовано: 30 июл 2024
- Using Melodyne to pitch-correct famous recordings!
Get CuriosityStream AND Nebula for 26% off!
curiositystream.com/adamneely
0:00 Intro
0:28 Led Zeppelin - Whole Lotta Love
2:52 Frank Sinatra - Fly Me To The Moon
6:05 Mama Neely interlude
7:49 Aretha Franklin - Respect
9:44 Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
11:56 Bill Withers - Ain’t No Sunshine
(⌐■_■)
⦿ Adam Neely T-shirts! ⦿
teespring.com/stores/adam-nee...
⦿ SUPPORT ME ON PATREON ⦿
/ adamneely
⦿ FOLLOW ME ON THE INTERNETS ⦿
/ adamneely
/ its_adamneely
⦿ Check out some of my music ⦿
sungazermusic.bandcamp.com
insideoutsidemusic.bandcamp.com
adamneelymusic.bandcamp.com
Peace,
Adam
My psychologist: T-Plant is not real he cant hurt you .
T-Plant: Y0u n33d c00l111iiing
😂😂😂
🤣 this really tickled me
LMFAO BROOO HAHAHAHA
"Y0u n336 K001-A1d"
Fucking hilarious.
Aretha: "All I'm askin', just a little respect"
Adam: "That's wrong, let's fix that"
-Adam Neely Out Of Context
Sounds a lot in context, in fact
I mean he did just straight disrespect her right after.
I've always wondered what Frank Sinatra would sound like if he was an accordion
ruclips.net/video/GQhln0vZ1OE/видео.html
Smoke crack
The t-pain effect on "fly me to the moon" changes the premise of the song. It changes from romantic to an actual robot literally trying travel to Mars.
that’s hilarious 😂
To high smoke crack
the elon musk version
ye why actually use artists, when using vocoders gonna remove un-needed human element
“To sing a wrong note is insignificant, but to sing without passion is unforgivable.”
-Beethoven
Wonder why Beethoven would forgive a few wrong notes here and there
@@ZoSo42084 Maybe he didn't hear them? 😉
That’s what Kurt Cobain said as well. Kurt and Beethoven were exact same
@@dondamon4669 lol... is this even a quote by either of them? it really sounds like bullshit facebook LiVe LaUgH LoVe tripe falsely attributed to someone famous to get shares
@@michaelwerkov3438 no it’s Kurt who also said “what I have in my heart and soul must find a way out , that’s the reason for music, and to play without passion is inexcusable “ Kurt and Beethoven were brethren’s
Adam: Wow, what a huge difference!
Me: Hmm yes, I too notice difference. Much difference, indeed. Everywhere. Yes
Same :D
I feel like this everytime I watch on my phone. Adam: "This bass is very thick and rich." Me: "Ah yes, such low frequency."
Theres some parts where i dont think i could tell if i wasnt told it was corrected, but theres a few notes where im like "wait... tf was that"
Same
So I'm not the only one
They do not need
Auto tune
Their voice is freaking
POWERFUUUUULLLLL
MASTER EXPLODER 🔥🔥🔥🔥
I did not mean to blow your mind
@@PassoutProductions but that shit happens to me....all the timeeeeeeee
@@Leon-Coils19912 Now take a look (now take a look)
Tell me what you see!
Kinda whack you of all people don't understand splitting the stems creates terrible artificing and is in no way ever going to result in a good mix when re rendered after editing.
When you do that things like reverb and echo get lost or tuned too and it's always gonna sound "off" This would only really work to prove your points (of which I admittedly agree with) if you did it with official stems, or with a singer directly.
This is NOT how to showcase the loss of what inexplicable artistry you keep harping on. You are already damaging the vocal when you force it into a stem with an algorithm. The second you touch any of those stems, the entire mix suffers. I'd love to see a reiteration of these key points with actual stems or raw recordings with a vocalist that's part of the video.
As soon as I heard "an app separating vocals from any stereo recording" I scrolled the comments just to find this comment lol Yeah you can't do that without damaging the audio.
True, but even beyond artifacts, I kind of agree with what he's saying about a lack of expressive range when limited to exact notes
@@jaxnitsua1200 I agree with him completely just think it's not the ideal way to make these points. You should try pitch correcting a stripped stem sometime, the level of jank is at least 10 times what it otherwise would be with a pure raw recording. Especially if you're doing it to vocals extracted from music that old. I just found it an odd premise to make the points but it was certainly more entertaining this way I give Adam that!
how did you get 6k likes on this comment on a video from a year ago? every other comment on this vid is like, 300-600 likes. and you only have 2 replies. fishy ass comment.
@@baker8981 Probably because people are music nerds and reacted to it 😅
I wasn't ready for "T-Pain" Led Zeppelin. Wow. 😂
Ayyy, love your videos man!
i laughed soooo hard
Agreed, listening to it was “painful”.
@@HangsLopsided t-painful
Led Zep-pain
For those of you wondering how I casually mention decapitation.....One of my principle voice teachers was pre-med in college before she turned to voice. During her pre-med stint, she observed cadavers as part of her study, and witnessed one of her professors demonstrate this as part of a larger context. She was the one who connected the card-on-bicycle spokes sound through the headless body with the pharynx being responsible for timbre, color and vowel of the voice back in the 1960's. This was before she had studied vocal pedagogy and voice science, which confirm this in less, er, graphic ways.
Often the most jarring image is the most memorable, which is a great pedagogical tool. Love your cameos on Adam's channel!
Your a hero Momma, thank you for your insight!
Thank you for explaining this! hahaha, it really was a surprise how suddenly we were talking about air being released through the throat-flaps of headless cadavers... ohhh too funny, you epiglott- me... epi-got-me, oh well i tried :/
Oh my, it's Adam's Mom!
Hey! Lol
I just had to come to the commentary section for that. That's a fact I'll never forget. Prrrrttt.
It's amazing how a "better" vocal performance can sound alot worse than a more rough vocal.
💯
*a lot"
If you look at any instrument, being 100% in tune is not desirable. That’s what vibrato is. It’s a rhythmic variation in the pitch. When you 100% correct this it will remove all the emotion.
@@TheMAU5SoundsLikThis What gets me is that the common Western equal temperament scale isn't isn't 100% in tune so "correcting" vocals to it makes even less sense. Sometimes the in between notes count.
@@garydiamondguitarist Nevermind how pianos are tuned. As you go towards one end of the keyboard, every note starts being "stretched." (called octave stretching)
This is an absolute documentary of what it sounds like when the soul is removed from the music.
Well put. When it comes to autotune, all I can say is turn that shet off and learn how to play and sing.
Actually this vid shows how really today auto tune is not a correction or a tool anymore, but a real instrument by itself, like a vocal synth
@@raphaellerouxzielinski1731lmao no it certainly doesn’t
@@cured_bacon647fax
@@cured_bacon647 I mean Adam himself makes that point
“Perfection is not very expressive” …great thought to think on. 💭
This reminded me of a classic moment from MASH, where Charles, a man of means and culture, explains to an injured pianist the he always wanted to play the piano, saying "I have hands that can make a scalpel sing, but above all I wanted to play. I can play the notes, but I can not *make the music*." It's such a succinct way to express the imperfections or uniqueness of musical performance.
That's why Chopin composed so much on the black keys. His pianos sounded off in those keys (pre equal temperament). Nowadays classical musicians are very busy forgetting it was the case. ;-)
Get it perfect, first. Then, mess it up expressively.
says the man with the tilted frames on the background :-)
As a saying, it's right up there with "repetition legitimizes", or my corollary "legitimacy repeats"
Adam's mum saying "imagine you had your head cut off". Real conversation starter
How does she know that 😱
@@mikew6840 former students
How did they figure out how human vocal cords sound without the head? 😶
@@Dowlphin By using Mathematical Anti Telharsic Harfatum Septomins
Reminds me of that line from Almost Famous: "Your mom kinda' freaked me out."
This is why most pop music made since the 2000s makes me feel like i’m being forced to eat rubber.
Last week I got really stoned and listened to "Whole Lotta Love" on repeat on my new vinyl record player set up... and came to the conclusion it was the greatest rock song ever recorded, so to hear someone is "fixing" it is like nails down the chalk board of my soul. 🤣
Adam: "The name of the vocal teacher is..."
Me: "Don't say your mom don't say your mom don't say your mom-"
Cool mum though.
@@normanfreund yeah she's amazing.
At this point I just assume any singing-focused topic is going to have a Mama Neely cameo but I still always love to see it. 😊
"How can I show off that my mom was cited in a book?"
"Let's see, the name of that vocal teacher is...?" "Let me guess, mama Neely?" "My name is Cate Frazier-Neely." Called it.
The tension of this comment on iPad mini, a line cuts just before the “Neely”
Madam Neely
As long as it isn't like in the vtuber community where everyone's simping for the moms
This was so interesting to me - I especially noticed with the Aretha clip how much her subtle bending of the notes added emotion and “humanity” to her singing. Really fascinating, thanks!
sometimes its the raw live imperfections that create a classic masterpiece.
course it is
With Sinatra, his breathiness actually gives a bassy thickness to his vocals. Whereas the fixed one sounds anemic. Its insane how something so small can make a big difference. Wow.
Melodyne doesn’t care about your breathiness though…
@@leaveitorsinkit242 modifying anything about the voice will change how it's perceived, it's impossible for a program to simulate what the singer would have sung a couple cents higher or lower
@@albertweber1617 not impossible, just not yet possible
I think that's an artifact of the AI stem separation software, not Melodyne. I would guess the lower frequencies of the human voice are more difficult to distinguish for the software, just as they are for us
it takes away the "tonewood"
Losing Aretha's pitch slide on the word "for" in "for a little respect" was the most jarring uncanny valley moment for me. It needs that slide to work!
I liked seeing the phrase "what you need" on the grid, you can see the way she slid up to the third 3 times and each iteration was slightly flatter; "need" was almost a semitone below "what" (at around 8:20)
Yeah, that really jumped out to me too.
It "works", but it is no longer Aretha. The rest is a matter of taste. This stuff is as bad as a click track.
I didn't even consciously notice a clear difference on these direct and short comparisons, but if listening to longer pieces, I'd definitely feel either enriched or dulled depending on whether it has life in it or is sterilized.
@@mikesmovingimages did you seriously just compare autotune with one of the most useful musical tools ever created? Please go away.
Pitch correction is a very useful tool when you have an epic performance filled with emotion and mojo but just missed those one or two notes that were off enough to mar an otherwise excellent track. A little snip snip fix in the mix and you save all the juicy goodness. Where it goes too far is snapping the entire vocal track to grid and losing all of the human element. Those scoops and slides are the secret sauce that separate an epic and memorable performance that touches our soul from a cold robotic one.
exactly correct
For me, it's those imperfections that create perfection. It's also why I usually prefer live performance. I'm not keen on everything being adjusted, artificially, towards some record industry 'standard' sound.
The correct take
This is so true for most music but what if it's an integral part of the genre? I've heard a lot of heavily emotional performances where they purposefully use portamento with autotune to get that snappy "dodODODO" sound between notes and it's awesome in my opinion (and a lot of others). For example Fri3ndzone - streetview.
It's really blowing up with the youngsters lately lol
@@abasement666Using it deliberately as an effect tool can have good results. But those who use it as that are good singers in the first place. They don't use it as a crutch.
As an example there is someone here on RUclips who is analysing Chers 'Believe' which was one of the first commercial uses of autotune. And maybe to everybody's surprise - it isn't used throughout the whole piece but actually as an accenting tool.
A prime example of why I have loved your channel for years, This and the Coltrane Fractal 2 of my all-time favorite musicology videos on here. Also, your mom is awesome!
"All I'm asking is for a little respect..."
**disrespectfully autotunes the life out of the voice**
Couldn't agree more
Using Autotune on Robert Plant is akin to Sauron creating Orcs from Elves.
i'm about to be that guy, but Morgoth created orcs bc he was big mad that he couldn't create life (with sentience) from nothing like Eru
Sauron was his subordinate
@@frybabyofficial 👍 thanks for the correction
@@frybabyofficial actually Melkor :p
Why didn't Frodo use a drone to drop the ring in Mordor?
It would be so interesting to hear you give Bob Dylan and Lou Reed this treatment.
Bob Dylan would first need to learn how to sing.
Niel Young too.
@@Blinknone *speak
Hahahhah ... I immediately thought of Lou Reed ... the chap wasn't a "singer" for sure, but he sang his lyrics as he felt on the day (and never the same in two performances). Among the best as a story-teller poet there was.
Have a feeling he would have refused to use autotune ... he consistently eschewed "embelishments" of any form unless he felt the song needed tham.
Bob Dylan said it himself he hits all the notes. He doesn’t need auto tune lol
It's late at night and I was dosing off while watching this and when the video ended with the "BASS" sound effect I almost shat. Thanks for the sheer spike in adrenaline, Adam.
Adam Neely f***ing around with Autotune for 17 minutes is a whole vibe.
Yep.
He’s actually using Melodyne, not Autotune. The capitalization makes a difference in whether you’re referring to the process or Antares’ product.
@@kohaponx well when you get to this level of ‘f***ing around’ it doesn’t matter if you call it Autotune, Melodyne, or even Tune Real-Time whatever lmao
@@Guinneissik It does matter, because it's a different technique and sound. Especially when making jokes about "sounding like T-Pain" when using a different tool and purpose.
@@MrAfusensi it definitely doesn't matter as much as you guys seem to think lol
So not only is the voice a naturally microtonal instrument, but that microtonality may be integral to many performances. Neat.
Ficaria legal dobrar algumas segundas ali pô.
Principalmente nas terminações das frases.
Mesmo usando esse pedal de harmônico, achei muito interessante harmonia
Only if your pleasure is a real, human vocal performance.
Imagine autotuning Korn. It would completely ruin their entire library of songs.
@@mikegamerguy4776 oh my god no
Well, Autotune is simply designed to “correct” pitches to a pitches used in European/western music. It would destroy eastern styles of music.
One thing Adam isn't considering is that the notes actually ARE perfect. They just don't align to this perfectly spaced grid that we 'say' is perfect. This...degree of separation that someone said is 'perfection'. Humans are perfectly imperfect. And those human imperfections are what Neely would describe as "mojo".
To translate this idea to guitar. Try playing "Scar Tissue" by RHCP on a 'perfectly tuned' guitar. It just won't sound good.
I thought that was the whole point when he said it was incompatible with the blues scale used!
Best take on Autotune I’ve ever seen. Mojo Romoval is right on. Cool for creating completely new experiences, but really should be used carefully and sparingly on live vocal takes. Great stuff, Adam!
“The next artist we’re gonna ruin…”🤣
I guess repetition legitimizes
Truth….
Exactly. If you think this "fixes" Led Zeppelin, then you don't know ANYTHING about rock music. Next, let's get rid of all of those pesky bends that Jimmy page is playing.
@@happyjack4813 that’s the point of the video. the “next artist we’re gonna ruin” quote is directly from the video lmao
@@happyjack4813 ... did you watch the video bro?
Me while not really hearing a difference: "Yes, quite, I agree."
Honesty right there, people.
I'm a former music major, and I hear nothing different except pitch center, like he chose a slightly higher approach, which as a classical singer, is exactly what you want to do. I think this is more a recording mix video, where people who work sound boards are more conditioned to hear those differences in headphones.
On stage I can hear really subtle things, but in a recording mix, those subtleties just aren't as present, they're mixed out, and so hearing the post mixed sound takes a certain kind of practice.
So "Ain't No Sunshine" is really noticeable, but that's a very stripped down recording, so it makes sense. Pink Floyd as well, but I never liked that drifting Tom Petty vocal sound, so I'm ignoring it.
With "Ain't No Sunshine", smoothing his pitch actually changes the rhythm of the song, bc he uses the pitch inflection to set up the attack of each word. By smoothing it out, the music looses it's 'swung' quality and it sounds more like he holds a note too long and has to play catch up. That's when losing expression actually fundamentally changes the song in my mind.
Everything’s fine until Those blues thirds start falling away, it’s kinda the thing that distinguishes vocals from other instruments-so the phrases sound similar in isolation but if one listened to the whole track “perfected” you’d never hear the vocals do “their thing” in the pitch landscape. Kinda like how the guitar is tuned just shapes the sort of phrases we hear from it, like “this is a guitar melody, I can tell by the notes” even when it comes out of piano.
I'm with you. I also watched on my phone speakers though, so I don't know how much I trust my ears atm.
I fell for the rage bait so hard. Love the video. Well done :)
The harmonizer is not the Tpain effect. T pain uses actual auto tune which, when the sensitivity is turned up all the way, locks the vocals to the note so precisely that it's causes an unnatural robotic sound.
Next episode: Quantising a J Dilla beat/D'angelo track
We are not ready for such blasphemy
I don't know if you're serious but I think that would be super interesting !
quantizing larger tempo shifts also really throws the listener for a loop. I heard a version of SOAD's Know that had been corrected to a constant tempo across all sections for the purposes of being mashup-able and it's absolutely bizare sounding to not have the choruses slow down
Disgusting
YES AHHAHAH
Adam: *calls pitch correction "Autotune"*
Antares: Wait that's illegal
Underrated comment.
it's the popculture term for pitch-correction, now
it’s funny cause it’s kinda the opposite of autotune, it’s more manutune since it involves a more manual approach😂
@@Youngapollo47 I think the fuss is all about the "tune" part, not whether you do it manually or algorithmically. At least to listeners who are not producers.
I mean, most people consider production itself as "computers doing it", and not as actual hard work, talent and artistic decisions that are involved.
@@Medytacjusz i dont think that’s relevant to the original comment or my reply, right as you may be lol i was just pointing out that it’s funny he’s using melodyne but calls it auto tune
I love that for the whole video, Adam's camera is on the wonk. It's very fitting :D
David Bowie's classics just wouldn't sound the same without him continuously going flat and managing to correct himself without most people ever noticing. It's part of the beauty of not using autotune, those near misses are exactly the things that bring an emotion into the music. The art in music as a singer is to get back on pitch where you want to be. Autotune is basically relegating that personal art and skill to a computer, meaning, the singer will not learn or maintain that skill him or herself. Which is one of the reasons why some singers just can't perform without a laptop in the room. Worst case scenario, which sadly happens more and more these days, is that people are selected as singers based only on their looks and sense of rythm, without any skill in hitting a note even close, because autotune will fix that.
the singer of tomorrow are based purely on their looks, they will have no sense of rhythm, time, musical tune, Key and pitch. they will have a Apple Macbook with GarageBand Tools, Autotune, song writing software (AI produced lyrics) and the index finger to press start.
sell out concerts watching someone sound fantastic (according to the tone deaf who cant hear Autotune Vocals), only to have a major software malfunction happen, having the once amazing angel like vocals turn into the sound of a cat being tortured as their claws are dragged across a blackboard, with the accompaniment of a dentist's drill grinding away at a root canal.
the news headline the next day. "singer's career is over after his laptop failed to cover up his real voice, causing 25 people to suffer major injuries while trying to flee the venue"
one of the injured said " all of a sudden, there was a spark, a popping noise in the speakers , then his real vocals came through.. it was so bad the front row started to vomit while the rest of the crowd screamed in agony, that sounded more in tune than the vocals did"
More Mama Neely!!!
I run a recording studio in Western Kentucky and I had a young vocalist (~13-14) who was recording her first album. She would add these little diatonic embellishments at the front of phrases. Instead of a scoop into the phrase it was an actual pitch. The performance struck me as strange and it wasn’t until about tune 5 that I realized she was mimicking auto tune. It got really obvious on her more modern cover tunes. Great topic to go deep on.
Damn I just tested that on myself (I'm gen Z) and tried humming the melody of a song I know is definitely autotuned and then the Zeppelin song, I can totally hear the effect the song which had autotune had on my voice. Every note came in as on tune as I could make it (which wasn't very on tune since I'm not much of a singer). It almost felt like I was trying to play my voice like it was a piano, while with the Zeppelin song felt more like I was just singing normally... Really interesting effect.
I wonder if part of that piano feel was simply trying to match pitch. Try to match pitch with Plant and you may feel the same way. Don't "feel" it, just match his pitch. Curious how that feels to you.
I had no idea that there were recording studios out here in Western KY.
I honestly want to hear that. That sounds actually pretty interesting to look into!
@@drewburchett2824 We're set up in Paducah, KY. Our business is called Time On The String, feel free to look us up!
It's so unironically incredible how the greatest singers are almost unaffected, if not worsened, by the use of Melodyne. Really fantastic artists.
All singers are worsened by pitch correction. It's not their voice, so by definition it's not a genuine performance. Might as well have an AI singer at that point.
@@LocrianDorian Nah, some people are so clearly out of tune (the more distorted the voice is, the more the pitch had to be corrected), that I'd rather listen to a robotic voice than their original mess.
What do you mean? The original sounds better. They should get rid of these computer software
@@vitorfernandes651 musicians should keep banging on 10th century pots and pans instead of utilizing new tools to make new sounds
@@vitorfernandes651 sometimes autotune can be used as a stylistic tool and sounds good
I dunno if this sounds crazy, it’s like the soul - is in the moments the voice changes from one note to the other.
The story telling is in HOW the voice goes from one note to the other. That’s what colors the emotion into it. Just like not all human emotion will ever be pitch perfect- so
Auto tune will never be able to place true emotion into the song.
Awesome video was engaged from the second second on thank you for making this.
NOOOoooooo not bill withers!!!! LMAO!
I really enjoyed the video though, that interlude with your guest talking about the ramifications was some good food for thought to chew on!
this is the beginning of adams rick beato arc
Adam tomorrow: why today’s music is trash
But 13:48 is what will save him from that terrible fate.
@@GabeWilliams why Western 18th century music is trash
I hope not...
I was joking - last year Adam made a big issue over our focus on "classical music" (and related theory) sidelining other music traditions and being inappropriate to analyse such musics.
"If you were to cut off your head..." Mom's metal as fuck.
never piss off mrs neely
A violinist friend of mine once asked me "What is the difference between a good musician and a great one?" I shrugged and he replied "The great musician knows when to get the notes wrong and by how much. The note has to serve the music not the other way around". I think that this is what your video is laying bare.
Great work, by the way. Keep it up
Your mom was very informative and made me think about things differently. I bet her classes are awesome.
Every time he said he was going to “fix” something, all I could think was “why do you hate us, Adam?”
"If you were to cut off your head above the vocal cords..."
What experiments have you been running Adam's mum?
"Would sound like a card being hit by bicycle wheel spokes" I think there might be some gurgling going on there too.
It's Adam's Family after all :D
Momma Neely
@@stevierv22 The best comment :)
She’s in The Suicide Squad as Polkadot Man’s Mom. Lmfao
As a ballet dancer, this is very similar to what a teacher bestowed upon me...as an artist, we establish that we know the rules and express through breaking them. That is the definition of art.
A great topic/video - it truely opened my ears. 🤣 The microtonals in a vocal is the singer's vibrato that creates the unique voice. Good to see your mum in here - she me cut up with the "cut your head off". 🤪 I watch your videos all the time and they are always so informative and different. Aretha has forgiven you. 😇
Hey Adam, I wonder what would happen if you went the opposite direction: take a song that has already been pitch-corrected to death and use melodyne to bluesify it. It would be interesting to see if this makes the vocal more soulful or just renders it even more uncanny. Of course, this would be *way* more work, as you'd have to choose which notes to bend and how far instead of just jacking all the sliders to 11, but it would be super interesting to find out what happens.
I think an easier approach to finding out what a heavily pitch corrected song would sound like without pitch correction would be to see if the artist ever sang the song live without an autotune microphone and maybe had a few pitches off. You can also see if anyone did a cover of that song without pitch correction. Though, I think it would be hard to find heavily pitch corrected songs that would sound better without pitch correction because I would assume that music artists and producers kinda know what they are doing and they probably wouldn’t pitch correct a song where it really sounds worse with it. Unless the song is kinda bluesy or has a semi-conversational style of singing, it probably would sound either the same with pitch correction or better. I guess musical theater numbers and operas would probably sound awful with pitch correction too though. But, I think pop music uses pitch correction for a good reason.
That’s not how stuff works
Yeah, that’s not really possible, but I appreciate the sentiment. Like someone else said, all you can really do is try to find a live recording without pitch correction. Unfortunately, a lot of pop artists are forced to use it even in their live shows, so that might be difficult to find.
@@AVL64 T-Pain’s Tiny Desk concert is maybe the best example you will find.
I was about to comment the same thing. I was wondering if the uncanniness if because the effect mangles the original tone / timbre of the voice. This experiment would reveal if it is the corrected tuning or the distortion caused by the effect that is making the singer sound "off" or "robotic".
10:45 "If you were to cut off your head above the vocal cords". Momma Neely goes full Metal.
I came to say pretty much exactly this haha
🤣🤣🤣
A headless person sounding like bicycle spokes is terrifying
How does she know this? SCARY!
Someone told me a long time ago that what makes a good musician into an amazing one is what they do with the space between the notes; the way they connect and play and relate to one another. This video reminded me of that.
I got it! Was trying to figure out what the corrected vocals sound like. It's beginners that are too focused on pitch and/or "classically trained" singers. Groove is what happens when you're comfortable enough with an instrument that you can be playful and remove the training wheels. Tightening up these performances is like regressing their skill level.
Timid singers also try to button down every now, so it also sounds like you're making the singer more timid.
This reminds me of what I learned about Indian singing traditions. Often how you get to the note matters more than the note itself because the little bends along the way can convey a lot.
this kinda reminds me of when people take old animation and "improve" it by using software to interpolate it to 60 fps, destroying all the nuance and detail of the animation
But but 120hz 4k tom and jerry is the way it was meant to be seen!!!
I love it when people do that. I feel like it adds detail and makes the nuance easier to appreciate.
@ian m can't and shouldn't are very different things
@@AfonsodelCB No, like, you literally can't automatically add extra detail.
@@lolwutizit The original animation artists were constrained by the medium and lack of technology of the time. They implied motion. Computers, when trained correctly, can see that implied motion and fill in the detail.
I won't argue that it's not a computer's "opinion", it certainly is. I will argue if you say it's objectively a bad thing. It's quite subjective and IMO it's a good thing for many people, myself included. I like it, and I like how the implied motion is automatically smoothed.
"I feel like it adds detail and makes the nuance easier to appreciate." is my original statement and I stand by it. The interpolation is quite sophisticated, taking implied detail and realizing it. I appreciate that and believe it accentuates nuance.
*Dynamics* and *tones of voice* are conveyed not only with volume and timbre, but also via tiny pitch "artifacts". Singing a loud sound has its own pitch signature applied on top of the note you hit, singing a growly sound has another pitch signature, and so on. Which means that flattening/"correcting" pitch strips away some of the perceived dynamics and tone as well. (Centering a note in Melodyne is essentially decreasing the amount of information in audio.) So tuning vocals needs very careful consideration - I often end up having tuned the vocals for a whole part with everything sounding great and smooth in isolation, but when playing it back it doesn't hit as hard since it's lost that _tiny_ bit of perceived dynamics.
This is also one reason why synthetic vocals are so difficult. You can't just isolate factors like pitch and volume and tone and simply sum them together. You need a massively smarter algorithm in order to sound natural. Tweaking a Vocaloid to sound natural, for example, is super time-consuming and finicky with the current tech.
Hey, great video! And some new (for me) angles to the autotune thang. Thanx for the interesting commentary and the "evil" sentiment of "we can correct that!" 😅
I'm late on this thread, so someone has maybe already suggested this: how about a combined vid with Fil from @Wings of Pegasus? He also has tackled autotune and pitch correction for quite a while.
There is a great Neil Gaiman quote which goes something like "Style is the mistakes you can't help but make"
That’s a dumbass quote lmao. Style is just honed by realizing your mistakes overtime. Clearly that quote was the dude trying to sound smart and it fails miserably
So by your logic, polyphias whole style is mistakes they can’t help but make, but their whole style is very technically demanding and has almost NO mistakes. So please. Make it make sense for me.
@@SolaceWhorethat is their style, cause it sounds terrible!
@@NBrixH I’m not saying polyphia sounds good. I don’t like them either, but to say their technical prowess are mistakes is insulting. They are more technically skilled than you or I more than likely ever will. They deserve respect due to the work they put in. I can acknowledge how outrageously hard something is, and acknowledging the talent needed to play it, whilst still thinking it doesn’t sound great. But some people do think it sounds great, so to say it sounds terrible is just your opinion, and you’re stating it as though it’s fact.
@@SolaceWhore oh no no, they are definitely talented. And their skill can not be ignored. It just think it’s wasted skills cause it sounds like shit.
There is a reason why Melodyne is usually applied manually instead of just pushing everything to 100%
Exactly. It's a way to save an otherwise great take.
That had to be said. I love Adam Neely but if I had no idea about Melodyne and never used it before I would probably create a worse image about that tool. It is made to be able to keep imperfections more than other pitch correction softwares and its mostly how u choose to use it.
I personally tend to just slightly automate the pitch for little corrections, but this is probably a lot more convenient and visually reassuring. Every way of changing pitch without changing the speed also has it's artifacts when working with audio files, but that only seems to be on more drastic pitch changes, I could see myself picking up this plugin for that as well, if it's got a unique and cool algorithm.
The drift on vocals is what really kills things, but usually vocals are things you can recut until you get it right. There are numerous technical problems (making a 3 saddle telecaster stay in tune when doubling piano melody) that used to require detuning a string to get around the intonation issues, then only playing part, doing another pass after retuning, that you can simply fix after the fact now. It's not fix it in the mix, it's fix something that is inherently flawed in the instrument without wasting time. Why is it that Adam didn't do something I know he is probably annoyed by on a regular basis - fix a trumpet that is slightly sharp on an otherwise great take that you didn't realize was off? You nudge it in a few seconds. Beats cutting and pasting the note from another bar. It's a powerful tool and vocals are the worst example. You wouldn't do this to BB King, but Frank Zappa... that's where you see the usefulness. Blues singers have great control to begin with. A marimba and harp will fight each other - harps don't stay in tune. Melodyne make that go away quickly with no artifacts. It's not the enemy. It's your best friend for technical issues that aren't laziness.
I'm a little late to this party.. great video, funny and liberating: nice one. I've heard Plant, and Steve Cropper, among others, talking about early performances before electronic tuners were available, saying they'd tune to the harmonica, or venue piano then go on and play, and if the harp or piano was a bit off, then that's where they played.. it's all relative!
This is a pretty cool experiment. The voice is a untempered instrument and the best singers use this quality as a way to express themselves either if it's conscious or unconscious. Probably it's usually the later since one of the main ways for a vocalist to achieve expression is through relating to the way we would speak.
It's interesting how pitch correction can have the inverse effect in blues adjacent music as opposed to the added expressiveness that's possible in kinds of rap and R&B with pitch correction. Cool how the context influences the outcome. Great video as always man
To me, you really have to sing with the intention of hard tuning the vocals in order for it to sound correct.
@@GuyNamedSean yeah, it’s like you’re “playing” the pitch correction
In rap and r&b they're using the pitch correction to add to the sound but in this they're effectively using it to subtract sound, to take all the variation and remove it
If you snap to the grid, it rarely sounds good. If a blues singer overshoots a slide from the flat third to the major third, pitch correction can help.
@@1dkappe you can't grab a phrase and 100% it. You grab 3 or 4 words in a song and slightly shift them...or re-record
_"Autotune was invented in 1996, and as we all know all songs prior to that were out of tune"_
- Adam Neely (2021)
They also used to speed up/slow down tape to alter pitch!
4:20 I think what leaves is the aspirated sound of hand, which in the original I feel keeps up the very slight tension in the piece, Sinatra dragging you along, romancing you. It adds a dreamy depth to this line.
I LOVE YOUR CHANNEL!!!
Whenever I watch ypur show, I imagine I learn all the cool things about music that my father refused to teach me and that I never learned.
This one really threw me though. I was surprised that I could not really hear the difference! Between the first two. Pepple tell me I am a good singer, although I have never had any formal training. Everytime I sing Karaoke a bunch of people come up to me and tell me I should go on one of those shows. Musicians have also told me, that I "have a good ear", whatever that means, so I really feel bad that I am not hearing the difference between the original and the melodyne. Are my ears not trained enough for that? Sometimes I think I hear a slight difference, but I do not know if I am really hearing the difference or if I am just imagining that I am hearing a difference. I am kinda bummed about this. I thought I would be able to hear a radical difference? Maybe I just do now know what to listen for?
I found Adam's mom's blog after this, and really enjoyed reading it. She had several posts about working with post-menopausal vocalists and the voice-changes they can experience. As a post-menopausal vocalist myself, I found it very encouraging ;) Also read her description of her father (= Adam's grandfather!), a brilliant organist. So interesting to read examples of how music can be passed down and transformed within a family.
Tell me more. (Also, I'm lazy.)
yeah, music is a family thing)) my grandpa played the accordeon and the piano (without any formal education!), my grandma sang in a pop band, my mom is a singer and choir conductor, and I...um... I played some drums in high school ._.
.My Mom went to school on a piano scholarship. I am a lifelong guitarist. Grandma played piano at parties ( they used to do that kids)
@@doitnowvideosyeah5841 Everyone's grandma played piano at parties. There was no tv, radio, or recorded music back in the day. Just live music or if you had thirty grand a player piano, the cutting edge technology of the time.
No doubt that Ma Neely's contributions to Adam's videos are always interesting, intuitive, and instructive.
The Sinatra one with the robo-harmony was actually really awesome
Agreed! This could become its own genre.
Yeah, especially given the lyrics! It feels like the effects really blended together with what he was singing about in a really cool way
@@ping163 yep!
@@andybaldman Croon-o-tune
@@digitaljanus Auto-croon!!
The reason for the flatness when you melodyne sinatra, is that he has a slight vibrato (pitch goes slightly up and down.) that the melodyne flattens.
This is fantastic. I'm glad I've discovered this. It makes my head fall off as a singer though because of the societal pressures of being pitch-perfect versus capturing natural expression. It's a very "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance" rabbit hole of what the term 'quality' means as it pertains to the whole of singing. And I hate it. I just wanna sing, dawg.... but I also want literally everyone to love it and tell me I'm awesome. Or do I? (walks slowly into ocean while singing slightly out of tune)
You gotta appreciate Sinatra's rythmic placement. Even with lot of autotune he swings like crazy
he is spot on
The robotic voice reminds me a bit of Mills Brothers.
Best ever.
He's feeling the ands and the uhs
I'm sure that could be "corrected" digitally as well.
Imperfections are extremely important in music; if a saxophone was perfect, it would sound like a tone generator.
How many times have you had to use a mobile rig to record a sax player you get one day for overdubbing 10+ songs? Not every 'bap' is going to be perfectly in tune, and you won't catch every out of tune one because you're blazing through. Human beings get tired. 'Imperfections' are also 'mistakes' sometimes. Melodyne is subtle enough to fix pitch drift or going slightly sharp on the occasional note, without artifacts, which was ignored in this video. You cannot catch very error, so Melodyne is a lifesaver when you get a great performance that has a few tiny flaws that can be fixed other ways, but is far easier with Melodyne. Imperfections that make you wince are not the ones you want to keep. If you suck at using Melodyne, then you make a sax into a tone generator - and that's user error. It requires skill as an engineer to use it properly.
@@CHHuey There is a level to this debate about what constitutes "proper" use.
In most cases I would actually prefer to hear the wince. Ever since I started buying records (because I am old enough to have had to save up for music on vinyl) I have preferred live albums over studio ones. There is a magic that happens when a live band is absolutely on it and hearing a slightly bum note or a glitch is what proves that it is live and not re-engineered.
So that leads in to the issue of who decides what to leave in and what to take out. There is an artistic discretion being exercised between the musician and the engineer/producer but that inevitably creates tension. The businessmen want something that fits between the lines because there is a risk that the audience, who are now so used to perfection that they expect nothing less, will be turned off by something that has a few warts so they require what I would consider to be excessive correction. But the warts could be deliberate. Frank Sinatra could clearly sing in tune but chose to sing flat for the effect. Unless the person applying the "corrections" sits with the artist and goes through every change they want to make to see if the musician meant to create the wart then there are going to be places where the software is obliterating a deliberate part of the performance.
An engineer should never try to be a better guitarist than the guitarist. Or singer. Or drummer. Or just about any other instrument.
It may be that you and I are in agreement on this but I suspect that for some people "proper" means polishing out all the imperfections and with them all of the character and for me that taints the whole process.
@@Birkguitars Frank Sinatra wasn't singing flat. He knew where the note was. It just wasn't a piano note. Blues and jazz have a long tradition of using microtonal methods of singing. Melodyne isn't build with that mindset, but it can help if the occasional problem sneaks in and you just didn't catch it. You can say you like the mistakes at gigs but in all honesty, you don't hear the majority of them because the acoustics usually aren't good enough which is why bands will still 'doctor' live albums, because the bassist couldn't hear himself in the monitors and hit the wrong note, which no one in the audience noticed.
There is no magic when you have the same person recording 3 different saxophones while wearing headphones, playing to a pre-recorded track with 2 people staring at him for hours on end. That psychological barrier is difficult for people. Not everyone is comfortable and it affects the performance. You're equivocating between the 'acceptable mistakes' and the kind of mistake that makes you wince and notice the mistake. Anything acceptable doesn't need to be fixed.
You statements about engineers makes me think you've never had to work with one. The software doesn't 'obliterate' anything. I have had to fix notes on a pedal harp because a pedal harp is an instrument that goes out of tune in a very unpleasant way that no harpist likes. It's a problem with the instrument. Those discs make the strings go out of tune - design flaw.
The engineer is working for the producer, who is making those decisions with the artist. That is the job of the producer, to listen to those mistakes and decide which ones to keep in and which ones to let go. I never said fix every problem, but the ones that make you wince are the ones you fix because you just didn't catch it in time. You've totally restated my argument into something that fits your world view instead of analyzing it for its own merit.
When you get someone who is composer, producer, engineer and performer and in general in charge, you get to see the big picture. I have. There are mistakes you keep in and those you throw out. I never said you purge it of humanity, but there is a threshold of mistakes that you can tolerate, and those you can't. Do you really think that something like Frank Zappa's 'Waka Jawaka' or 'Hot Rats' is better with the wrong mistakes left in, because they weren't. He edited them out, but the guy edited so well, composed produced and engineered, that he knew what was supposed to be there and what wasn't. That's producing.
I do not think we agree because I'm not sure you get that recording a live concert and a multi-track recording represent different things, and if you're doing it on a budget with limited time, this is not 'demeaning the music' or anything like that, it's bring out the intent of what the person playing meant to play. It removes a barrier that lets you focus on performance and not on all the weird technical problems. Most saxophone players don't WANT to hit the wrong note. That they do is not proof of 'humanity'. You can easily correct the pitch while leaving the intonation as it should be - Adam severely under utilized that aspect of Melodyne, which is one of the best features of Melodyne.
The person who decides to leave it in or take it out is the producer, musical director, or the band if they're working with an engineer who really sticks to that strictly. If you want to go with 'live album', fair enough, but once you abandon that, you have to go with 'this isn't reality'. That's where Eddie Kramer, George Martin, guys like that come in. There was a Melodyne before Melodyne - it was called session musicians who wouldn't screw up and producers like Tom Wilson would often insist on it if the band wasn't cutting it.
The person in charge of the production that the musicians hire makes the decision. That's why they exist. Maybe it's one band member, maybe it's someone running a group like a jazz group instead of the Beatles, but at the end of the day there's no tyranny of Melodyne trying to purge humanity of it's expression, just an ability to make things that in the past would've taken forever since an analog synth goes out of tune the longer you leave it one. Those PITA problems go away and the music sounds better. But of course a band like Black Flag isn't served like that the way that Frank Zappa was. But that's because someone MADE the decision, and that was Greg Ginn in Black Flag and Frank Zappa, the composers.
The only reason I care to put all of this in writing is that someone who could do something extraordinary might not because they got peer-pressured into 'auto-tune is bad'. I'm tired of that crap just as much as I'm tired of bands that don't do pre-production demos, and practice while they record. Studio time is for studio stuff, and this is a blessing for fixing stuff when you're limited by time and other resources. That is ignoring the creative uses of it, too. Laziness is laziness, and this video was only about the laziness.
@@CHHuey If a sound engineer can't tell something is out of tune it isn't significantly out of tune.
@@CHHuey I have actually seen a documentary on Sinatra that mentioned singing flat but I can't track it down at the moment so unfortunately I can't quote authority but I will hold to it. You mention microtonal methods but I think that is actually what I am talking about - being a few cents under true pitch rather than being randomly out of key.
That aside I don't actually disagree with any of your other observations but I think I have a different reference. Years ago I saw an interview with Pete Waterman who said explicitly that he did not want any of "his" acts (note the possessiveness of the attitude) to sing live because he and his team spent so long in the studio making sure the vocal performance sounded as good as they could make it anything done live would be second best. In HIS hands Melodyne would be a purely business tool not a musical one.
I am old enough to remember newspaper headlines about how the Bay City Rollers didn't play their own instruments so I am aware of the rent a band concept with session musicians. I went through University to the soundtrack of Relax by Frankie Goes to Hollywood on which Norman Watt-Roy came up with and played the iconic bass line, not the band member.
And I have heard Glen Fricker screaming about bands that turn up to a studio without having done the practice to know how difficult it can be to tease out a recordable performance.
Ultimately the choice of which points to change is an aesthetic one and that is where the differences in preference come in. A while back I was in a band doing a cover version of Rocking in the Free World and in researching options to create our own interpretation I found a version that Pearl Jam did live. The audio is straight off the video so there is no editing or correcting. One of the guitars is clearly out of tune by a significant margin but I love it as a performance because it captures so much energy. I have no doubt that others would think it unmusical garbage.
I concede that this is a personal preference hence my understanding that Melodyne can have a place. My concern lies around the difference between what you describe, a tweak to correct something that is not on the button because of practical limitations, and the ability to take a voice that honks like a drunken goose and put it on tune and on time.
I want to hear an authentic representation of what the performer is capable of and wants to project but with Melodyne I cannot be sure that this is what I am getting particularly when someone like Pete Waterman would be using it to create an electronic version of Milli Vanilli, hence my deep distrust of the outcomes.
Hahaha great video! 😆 We're lucky to have the technological means and to have people like you ready, willing and able to fix what must be fixed in the so-called "great performers". 🤣 There are just a few million hours of recorded music out there, let's get to work! 🤭 (Now seriously, keep up the amazing work!)
I actually agree with your mom, I’ve said that for years! I’m more of a purest and prefer artists without any tuning, but hey it’s 2022 to each their own! Bring mama back sometime, love her!
“...Your Scientists Were So Preoccupied With Whether Or Not They Could, They Didn’t Stop To Think If They Should.”
Scientists: "We do what we must because we can."
@@fredashay This was a triumph!
@@PavloPravdiukov I'm making a note here: _Huge success!_
history show again and again how nature points out the folly of men.
@@fredashay for the good of all of us... except for those who are dead.
“If you were to cut off your head above the vocal chords and pass air through, it would sound like a baseball card in bicycle spokes”… uh… Thanks, Adam Neely’s Mom.
So... an oscillator for a biological synthesizer???
@@snowmanplan Arguably, that's what singing is. Chopping off your head to alter your voice would be biological circuit bending.
I was going to say, she goes "what that tells us is..." and I was afraid of what she'd say next...
just the title of this video is epic XD. I'm reminded of a review of Jimi Hendrix at the bbc and the sound engineers were getting frustrated trying to remove all of the noise and distortion. =\
Excellent analysis
That "hi mom" has the energy of 'mom didn't tell me she was subbing my class today'
It's kind of annoying that he put on that energy on I guess because he expects the audience to expect it? I'm not sure. He's obviously proud of his mother and he invited her on the show, so why not give her the respect and just treat her like a regular guest and not like she came to his school with his gym shorts because he forgot them at home.
I think you're greatly exaggerating, Michael.
Ay my mom's a sub too.
@@ultimadum7785 i know
@@Jack-cw8bw lol
I love how the corrected version of Wish You Were Here sounds like a Coldplay song
….or Joe Satriani
God damn, I thought the same, it really does.
I thought the same haha Just like Coldplay
I wonder if running the program backwards would make a Coldplay song sound like Pink Floyd
ROFL
My friend Bob Krogstadt and his manager Rick White recorded the Duet with Natalie and Nat Cole for the hallmark Christmas album. Natalie sang in a different key and had trouble following the awful Nelson Riddle arrangement. Back in Hollywood, an engineer named Toby worked absolute magic resulting in the first of Natalie’s duets with her dad. Somebody needs to know this stuff.
13:48 Today I learned smething new (besides the autotune of vintage artists and the pitch correction):
change is not always good
change is not always bad
change is change
understanding change is the important thing
Great quote. Thanks Adam.
It's kind of scary how autotune kills the soul of the voice in such a subtle, yet all-encompassing manner.
lol it wasnt subtle, it sounds subtle but it was too aggressive, you must not take all the way up the settings and once you tune, you need to fix the vibrato and connect the note vibrato which he wont do it for a video, the vibrato its what makes a voice sounds natural and alive, also if you dont connect the notes it sounds unnatural in most cases, pop singers make it more subtle in most of the cases
@@raufmeister
Your reading comprehension needs work. Try not to be so presumptuous, it makes you look pretty arrogant.
@@raufmeister Or you go all the way and use it as effect like Cher or T-Pain do.
i blame the vocal isolation for a lot of it, but he was also way too aggressive on the settings.
Agree; even with the other “fixes” others are suggesting, it just sounds like an audio robot desert to me
I think after being hammered with perfect pop vocals for years now, I actually crave something a bit pitchy.
The vulnerability of singing, the cracks and timbre of the voice, all of that stuff adds colour and richness to a song.
We’re here for the stuff that fall outside the lines!
I agree! that's something that got me into Rex Orange County. there are a lot of imperfections in his older stuff but it's really emotional and moving
Just listened to Mr Sandman By The Chordettes and it sounded so human like than most that I've listened recently, and it made me realize how much autotune took away. It was breathtaking.
This is why I love going to live performances and listening to old music.
Try flamenco -- listen to a bulería by Camaron de la Isla lol
Bent knee. If you haven’t heard them yet
Ooh the T-Pain Ain't No Sunshine sounds pretty sick!
Excellent dive into this realm of reality!
Side tangent: T-Pain went into a big depressive episode after Usher told him that he "ruined music".
After some time away, T-Pain went on to win the masked singer, to prove to himself and the world that he can sing without the "crutch" of autotune.
Yeah we all saw that Netflix doc. And even if we didn't its pretty well known at this point. That along with the tiny desk concert is why everyone loves T-Pain now.
@@nedisahonkey I didn't know that, I don't even know who TPain is.
@@dragons_red Thankfully the internet and Google exist so no one needs to live in ignorance!
@@dragons_red come on, yes you do, even if you don't know his name I'm sure you know a song/that sound
His NPR Tiny Desk concert proved to many that he is a talented singer. Everyone should check it out if they haven't.
Adam: "Okay, let's fix up this Jacob Collier track..." Melodyne: "I am nothing." [weeps]
Someone, please make this video. XD
Jacob uses so much microtonality Melodyne would completely obliterate his stuff.
so much flavor full with out autotune , I'm a keyboard player and detune its basically what give live to the sounds, i believe that detune give more complexity to the sound and harmony, as example the famous sound super saw its made by 7 oscillators or voices little and lot detune between each other and is the basic sound on ultra, techno sounds etc , in other words a great singer or voice is not the perfect tune one but the one with more soul expressions etc...
so no point on autotune at leas you what to sound like every one else boring and with no drama...
life is abouth passion too and music is abouth life
great example thank you for showing it
i think there is still a whole new level to audio we havn't even unlocked yet, and thats perfectly demonstrated here
As someone who got into music late and was born after 1985, I've found it took me a really long time to appreciate singers like Bill Withers, whom I found "pitchy". Then, when I really started listening to older music in general, I realized almost everyone was "pitchy" and pitch was an appropriate sacrifice to emotion and soul. Now, when I listen to modern music, I find it more devoid of character. I appreciate this video because it definitely affects how I'll correct my own voice and trust my ear more when something sounds right and isn't perfectly on the pitch grid. Thanks Adam!
I've noticed this with a lot of people who predominantly listen to contemporary pop. They perceive natural singing as pitchy. But of course perfection is rare in actual musical performance and it's also not aimed for by performers because it's boring and unnatural. Slight deviations from the perfect pitch are the norm with singers, violinists, cellists, etc. It's even used consciously for an emotional effect. The same thing is true for slight rhythmic variations. A lot of people have become used to music that has been dehumanized in many different ways.
You can watch the bonus video and the un-edited original cut over on Nebula, if you'd like. (curiositystream.com/adamneely)
Also, yes, I use the term "Autotune" to mean many different things in this video, including simply "pitch-correction" and not the piece of software specifically. I used Melodyne in the video mainly since I don't own Antares Autotune, but they can do very similar things.
Dm7, Bbm maj7, Fmaj7
Great work fixing all those out of tune amateurs - but you missed a trick, I noticed that they are all off the beat, I mean really, it's like they just sing whatever they want whenever they want, lets lock it down and get them strictly in time for the next video.
It's no surprise that hours and hours of work honing the skill of playing a piano (an instrument that is pitch-quantized, incidentally) can produce far more sophisticated and musical results than simply 'banging on the keys'. Is it surprising that Melodyne (as an instrument in it's own right, incidentally) is any different?
Were any of the singers effectively using just intonation rather than equal temperament?
1) Please pin this.
2) Please link to the nebula vid or your nebula creator page.
I had to scroll through so many comments to find this.
RUclips suggested this video to me when I was working, so I didn't watch, just listened. I can here ABSOLUTELY no difference between regular and auto-tuned vocals.
Amazing video thank u for sharing your knowledge and talents!!
Auto tuned Sinatra will haunt my dreams lol
This is so wild. I was just listening to IV last night and noticed that in "Battle of Evermore" there's a moment where all the harmonies come together in unison and they are not at all on the same pitch...and that makes it infinitely better.
I was always taught when singing thirds in a choral setting, you aim high or low on it depending on if you're ascending or descending, or depending on the chord and other harmonies. I understood it to be voices aren't limited by the tuning system that instruments are beholden to. AFAIK this is very important in barbershop too.
That's cool, I knew barbershop quartets change tempered tuning. But I've never heard it from any conductor I sung under.
@@emilciapaa9077 Instrumentalists have been bending notes since instruments were invented.
@@mikesmovingimages I believe you. But vocal and especially choral music is closer to my heart. And no one really told me to change colour of notes. It was always just about "right" intonation.
@@mikesmovingimages though the popularity of the technique of bending notes on guitar has been a more recent thing, you're technically right that fretless instruments such as violin and related instruments have been able to bend and/or play pitches outside of 12edo for a long time. Or if you meant "bending notes" as in using any tuning system other than 12edo, that's certainly true. 12edo has only had widespread adoption within the past couple hundred years, and before that, all sorts of other tunings have been used throughout history and in all different cultures.
@@bragtime1052 in addition to bending notes for melodic interest, the idea of being in tune is a subjective concept. In reality there are not 12 tones in a harmonic scale but 17. All the emharmonic notes are comprised of two. Eb and D# are not the same, for example. Which one to use depends on the context. The ratio of a third or sixth to fundamental tone yields an irrational number. Orchestras and choruses never needed equal temperament, and as Adam's video demonstrates, "fixing" art by forcing it to a grid is a dehumanizing exercise. There is much beauty beyond the cold algorithms.
Makes since what your mom said about vocal cords. I noticed it's easier for me to hit high notes when I look up and low notes when I look down.
“Something definitely gets lost in translation”…
Me: SOUL!!!! 😂