Posts Tagged ‘recording’
I’ll say it – I’m not the biggest fan of hip-hop. Never have been, never will be. Apart from a few select records, like the Wu-Tang Clan, Jay-Z and Eminem, I’m just not a fan. It’s not that it’s awful music, it just doesn’t click with me. Regardless, you heard it here first – Man Mantis might just change my ideas about hip-hop for a while.
I had been keen on getting a Zoom H4 when the Zoom H2 was announced last year. The feature list, size and price was too good to pass on so I pre-ordered one from the USA and got it months before it landed here on shelves in Australia. Read more
Found a great video on YouTube with some examples of T-Pain singing live following my previous post on auto-tune. Looks like he can sing very well and probably won’t be able to escape this auto-tune stigma and get the credit he just may deserve.
Now, let’s get one thing straight – auto-tune is very real in today’s music. The more I learn about recording and the sharper my ears become, the more I notice the layers and levels in every day pop tunes. Listen to anything on TodayFM and you’ll instantly hear the artificial layers and harmonies, and the disgustingly obvious auto-tune.
Auto-Tune – It seems that in today’s pop music this is no longer a dirty word. It’s very acceptable. For someone like me, it’s a great way to save time if there’s a couple of off notes on an otherwise decent demo recording. There’s also a great effect that allows you to remove any frequency from the recording that isn’t strictly in the song’s key.
