Can I tastefully auto tune these back up Vocals?
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Can I tastefully auto tune these back up Vocals?
I recorded a live band and the back up singers are out of tune with each other in many parts of the songs AND they are singing through 1 mic.
Auto tune won't work in this kind of situation as far as I know.
I just turned them down when the are out of key but that sucks. What would you do? Any way around this?
Auto tune won't work in this kind of situation as far as I know.
I just turned them down when the are out of key but that sucks. What would you do? Any way around this?
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Did you get good isolation?
I agree, doing them over would be the best thing. But you could also try "dodging" them-- selectively muting and leave in the parts that work. I did that with a sax solo that was problematic every time a particular diminished chord came up, also with guitar too; just took the offending parts out. Obviously you've got to be planfully musical, you can't just indiscriminately hack. But if they sang more "on" than "off," it might work.
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I agree, doing them over would be the best thing. But you could also try "dodging" them-- selectively muting and leave in the parts that work. I did that with a sax solo that was problematic every time a particular diminished chord came up, also with guitar too; just took the offending parts out. Obviously you've got to be planfully musical, you can't just indiscriminately hack. But if they sang more "on" than "off," it might work.
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I did get pretty good isolation from the instruments into their 1 vocal mic.
It was a live performance and I can't go back and re-record the vocals...and I don't think they could pull off doing a sneaky post-performance over dub.
They are more "off" than they are "on".
I've been looking at the Melodyne Editor and it looks totally sweet, but I am running Logic 9 on a PPC which isn't supported by Editor (which is the only version that has the polyphonic tuning capabilities).
Are there any other polyphonic pitch correction plugins out there that would work for Apple G5 PPC (non-Intel)?
It was a live performance and I can't go back and re-record the vocals...and I don't think they could pull off doing a sneaky post-performance over dub.
They are more "off" than they are "on".
I've been looking at the Melodyne Editor and it looks totally sweet, but I am running Logic 9 on a PPC which isn't supported by Editor (which is the only version that has the polyphonic tuning capabilities).
Are there any other polyphonic pitch correction plugins out there that would work for Apple G5 PPC (non-Intel)?
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Perhaps it was a poor choice of words; not "planfully" as in "ahead of time," because he couldn't have known, but more or less "artfully" and "musically," or, not indiscriminately. Listen to the backing vox parts while listening to the rhythm track, find what you can and cannot unobtrusively duck out of, fade into, etc., etc. It's certainly a lot more work than just doing it over the right way!
To the OP-- It won't be just isolation on the vox track(s), but vice-versa, as in, are there a lot of vocal sounds in the instrument tracks? If you replace them, mute them, erase them or tune them, you still may have to deal with "ghosting" from leftover crappy vocal-take bleed into other tracks and any room mikes!
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To the OP-- It won't be just isolation on the vox track(s), but vice-versa, as in, are there a lot of vocal sounds in the instrument tracks? If you replace them, mute them, erase them or tune them, you still may have to deal with "ghosting" from leftover crappy vocal-take bleed into other tracks and any room mikes!
GJ
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