Why is this so troubling to me? autotune at it's best.worst?

[east3rdst]

I really don't know what to make of this, i know this use of auto-tune is nothing new, but something about it. Maybe i don't watch enough Much Music/MTV and need to be desensitized ...Thoughts?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B2MCwbOZkBA

Maybe it's just the narrators voice.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UeLid3KR ... re=related

[Snarl 12/8]

Maybe that singer totally suckz for realz, but his dad is so effing connected in Hollywood that they had to figure *something* out to get that stuff on the radio. I'd love to hear that vocal track without the tuning.

Here's my favorite autotune. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7yfISlGLNU&fmt=18

That and "Autotune the News".
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YSUn6-brngg&fmt=18

(I think I heard that "Stereos" guy saying "shorty" through the autotune, trying to sound like T_Pain.

BTW - People need to get in the habit (at least on TOMB) of adding &fmt=18 to their Youtube URLS.

THanks,

[east3rdst]

no, he can sing ok. I've seen them live and they have songs without the auto tune. There is something deeper about this that bothers me.

what does "&fmt=18" do?

[stylus flanger]

there is something called synesthesia where sounds can make people see colors. i don't have to wonder if there is a similar effect that can cause nausea. i'm dead serious. pure hell. a watershed moment of interrogation tactics. i feel like trashing my studio!

[Snarl 12/8]

what does "&fmt=18" do?

Try a youtube with and without it and see.

(It makes the audio stereo and more hifi.)