Yeah, as I get older (I'm three months younger than Sgt. Pepper's), my tolerance for bad music has waned, and as an amateur musician/songwriter/singer, I generally find auto-tuned vocals to be obvious and grating. "If you can't reliably hit the note in the studio, then change the melody to one you can sing!"
Sometimes, used subtly and in moderation, or for a deliberate doubling effect to the instumental melody I can tolerate it (I'm thinking "Some Nights" by fun, for instance). One of my favorite album stickers ever is from Allison Moorer's 2002 release, Miss Fortune, which read "Absolutely no vocal tuning or pitch-correction was used in the making of this record." Great album, too! From: AF [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Ken Hohhof Sent: Thursday, October 04, 2018 2:45 PM To: 'AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group' Subject: [AFMUG] OT - autotune Probably just because I'm old, but I can't stand the overuse of autotune in most pop music today. Not just to polish up a few off-key notes, but the whole song is heavily autotuned. For anyone on the list who lives or travels outside the US, is this just a US phenomenon? Or is it everywhere, including Europe and South America? I heard the studio version of this song on the car radio last night and had to Google the lyrics to find the singer, who turned out to be from Germany. Obviously capable of singing without autotune, or at least performing live without lip syncing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=38FORtUWDKA I don't know where the recorded music industry is headed. I try to find high res FLAC downloads and most of what's available is remastered stuff from 30+ years ago. The few "audiophiles" today seems to be listening to vinyl on their tube amps. Yet I saw an ad for a $15,000 85 inch 8K resolution Samsung TV, shipping later this month. Video and audio seem to have gone opposite directions. (I estimate that 8K streaming video will require up to 100 Mbps Internet speed.)
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