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What exactly is real in recorded music?

Submitted by Michael Deeds on Fri, 09/05/2008 - 11:45am.

This interesting read about Auto-Tune — a software that alters or fixes pitch, usually on vocals — suggests that nothing is truly natural about recorded music.

It also corrects the myth that Cher used a vocoder (or a talk box, which is a different contraption) on her 1998 hit "Believe." When you listen carefully to this stuff, the differences between vocoder, talk box and Auto-Tune become more obvious.

Accompanying the article are examples of Auto-Tune that you can hear.

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Thank you for pointing that out...it was fascinating!

Submitted by foreignoregonian on Fri, 09/05/2008 - 7:56pm.
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It's been a good 10 years

Submitted by Strategery on Mon, 09/08/2008 - 4:30pm.

since real instruments were used in music. It's all synthesizers now.

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I doubt LeRoi Moore was a synthesizer.

Submitted by foreignoregonian on Mon, 09/08/2008 - 4:45pm.

PS Guitars are REAL, acoustic OR electrified. You are not very correct anyway.

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PS The Headaches!

Submitted by foreignoregonian on Thu, 09/11/2008 - 6:47pm.
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