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Originally posted by Casemeister
When people talk about a voice being "tweaked" with ProTools, they're usually talking about PITCH correction. Modulation hardware has been around for a while, but it'll just raise or lower the pitch of a recorded sound to one set pitch. (Half a step higher, lower, etc.) With a pitch "correction" program or piece of hardware, the pitch of the recording or element of the recording (such as the vocals) is tweaked only when it goes off-key. Autotune is the most popular type of pitch correction software/hardware. Overuse of it can actually create an interesting effect. (That Cher song... "Believe," I am pretty sure it was called, is the most famous track with deliberate overuse of Autotune).
Pitch correction hardware WAS around in 1996 or so, I believe, but it was very expensive (Waylon Jennings refers to a $25,000 machine that corrects pitch in his 1996 book) and it's highly unlikely that Dave used any such measures on the two BOV1 tracks. It really doesn't seem like Dave's style.
I really just wanted to make it clear that when people talk about "tweaking" a vocal track, that's generally what they mean (if it's meant to be negative, anyway). Of COURSE reverb, chorus, compression and EQ were around before ProTools was even an idea in its author's mind. If they hadn't been around, every record made before ProTools would sound like absolute crap.
I'm absolutely sure those tracks are from multiple takes. Was Autotune used? I'd bet large sums of money it wasn't used. THAT'S what people seem to be talking about. They assume anything can be done with computers when it comes to sound. That's not true. Dave sang those parts. They may have been spliced a bit, but so what? It's still Dave.
When people talk about a voice being "tweaked" with ProTools, they're usually talking about PITCH correction. Modulation hardware has been around for a while, but it'll just raise or lower the pitch of a recorded sound to one set pitch. (Half a step higher, lower, etc.) With a pitch "correction" program or piece of hardware, the pitch of the recording or element of the recording (such as the vocals) is tweaked only when it goes off-key. Autotune is the most popular type of pitch correction software/hardware. Overuse of it can actually create an interesting effect. (That Cher song... "Believe," I am pretty sure it was called, is the most famous track with deliberate overuse of Autotune).
Pitch correction hardware WAS around in 1996 or so, I believe, but it was very expensive (Waylon Jennings refers to a $25,000 machine that corrects pitch in his 1996 book) and it's highly unlikely that Dave used any such measures on the two BOV1 tracks. It really doesn't seem like Dave's style.
I really just wanted to make it clear that when people talk about "tweaking" a vocal track, that's generally what they mean (if it's meant to be negative, anyway). Of COURSE reverb, chorus, compression and EQ were around before ProTools was even an idea in its author's mind. If they hadn't been around, every record made before ProTools would sound like absolute crap.
I'm absolutely sure those tracks are from multiple takes. Was Autotune used? I'd bet large sums of money it wasn't used. THAT'S what people seem to be talking about. They assume anything can be done with computers when it comes to sound. That's not true. Dave sang those parts. They may have been spliced a bit, but so what? It's still Dave.
I agree that he definitely sang multiple takes. "Tweaked" was the wrong word on my part. Every part of the song is 'tweaked' in a sense. I just meant that DAVE's vocals were not significantly altered, of course there's studio stuff that I'm unaware of, but DAVE can actually sing in the high range, that being said, I doubt you would see these tunes live night-after-night...
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