Ian Bell wrote in message ...
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.


Cher released a song a year or so ago when the pitch corrector effect was
deliberately overdone.

Vocoder. Old bit of kit, much favoured by Joe Zawinul, the world's
most vocoded Austrian wooly hat wearer. The Cher effect is very
underdone, compared with Joe's oeuvre.

Steve.

Steve G wrote:

Cher released a song a year or so ago when the pitch corrector
effect was deliberately overdone.

Vocoder. Old bit of kit, much favoured by Joe Zawinul, the world's
most vocoded Austrian wooly hat wearer. The Cher effect is very
underdone, compared with Joe's oeuvre.

ISTR he favoured a Moog Vocoder although I gather he experimented with a
Bode when they were originally released, the Cher track didn't use one of
those :-)

Steve G wrote:

Cher released a song a year or so ago when the pitch corrector
effect was deliberately overdone.

Vocoder. Old bit of kit, much favoured by Joe Zawinul, the world's
most vocoded Austrian wooly hat wearer. The Cher effect is very
underdone, compared with Joe's oeuvre.

ISTR he favoured a Moog Vocoder although I gather he experimented with a
Bode when they were originally released, the Cher track didn't use one of
those :-)