In article , Pete
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"Old Fart at Play" wrote in message
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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.

Antares Autotune. And it's everywhere.

Is this the sort of 'plastic harmonica' effect I tend to hear in a lot of
the singing on 'pop' songs these days? It also seems to cause glides to
'jump' from note to note a but like a yodlel?

Come back Frank Ifield, all is forgiven. :-)

Slainte,

Jim

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