Saturday, April 05, 2008

AA3 - Week 5 - Production Outside the Square (2)



This week Luke and I teamed up to experiment with the Antares Auto-tune plugin. I have used this quite extensively in the past, so we tried to use it out of its intended context. Note - my MP3s are the same as Luke's.

For this first example I sung a glissando line from low to high, then used auto-tune set to C minor with the retune speed set to fastest. The result is more humorous than it is useful.
OverTune MP3

The next example took the previous concept a step further. I sung a guitar solo, then we added auto-tune with the same settings as before and ran it through Amplitube to add distortion. The result is a fairly believable-sounding guitar solo.
Lead Vocals MP3

Finally we tested out auto-tune on my cello. I purposefully did not tune it beforehand, so the results would be more obvious. Auto-tune was set to D minor with medium retune speed. Pitch-correction can be heard on the second note, which means the G string was probably out of tune.
Celloooo MP3

Grice, David. “Production Outside the Square." Lecture presented at Studio One, Level 5, Schultz Building, University of Adelaide, 1st of April 2008.

4 comments:

Freddie said...

AutoTune? Worthy of a university lecture?

Ben said...

You'll be asking that question a lot...

John said...

Love your lead guitar samples... you're going to put us guitarists out of business. Or were we even in it to begin with? Hmmmm yes, hmmm

David J Dowling said...

F'N' Maaaadddd!! I love the way autoTune creates very guitar like trills, plus the distorted hiss that Amplitube added to your breath noise upped the perceived authenticity a notch..