Don Pearce wrote:

On Thu, 18 Dec 2003 09:19:09 +0000, Old Fart at Play
wrote:


I don't know what goes on in recording studios these days
but I heard a chap on the radio say that a lot of automatic
pitch correction goes on for the benefit of tone deaf singers.
He also said that the effect is easy to recognise.

Can anyone suggest a good example that I might hear on the radio?
I presume that the effect is the yodelling sound where the voice
changes in mid-note but for all I know the singers might sound like
that naturally.


Every record in today's charts. Cher and others have used an extreme
version as a vocal effect (Do you believe in life after love, for
example).


So "The closest approach to the original sound" is not what we want?
What about remasters? Do they fix the vocals?
What about old songs by the Cranberries? Surely that effect is real.

--
Roger.