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just breath is autotuned

i am a targeti am a target Posts: 808
edited September 2009 in The Porch
yes. i'm not a fan of this song. but i noticed how odd eds vocals sounded and had my brother listen to it and we both agree that there's a heavy use of autotune on just breath.

any time a singer sounds like a machine, its autotune these days. long sustained notes that don't waver. perfect intervals in the harmonies it's clearly autotuned.
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  • SolarWorldSolarWorld Posts: 1,902
    :roll:

    Have you seen the video of him singing it?

    Now you are just trying to annoy people.

    He's singing though his nasal passage.
  • i am a targeti am a target Posts: 808
    yes i have. and he doesn't sound like the album version.
  • Ledbetterman10Ledbetterman10 Posts: 16,956
    edited September 2009
    i am a target wrote:
    yes. i'm not a fan of this song. but i noticed how odd eds vocals sounded and had my brother listen to it and we both agree that there's a heavy use of autotune on just breath.

    any time a singer sounds like a machine, its autotune these days. long sustained notes that don't waver. perfect intervals in the harmonies it's clearly autotuned.

    I noticed this too.
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  • bigbadbillbigbadbill Posts: 1,758
    i am a target wrote:
    yes i have. and he doesn't sound like the album version.
    I pray it's not the same computerized, robotic sound that most R&B singers use these days.
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  • i am a targeti am a target Posts: 808
    i'll see if i can pin down an exactly time when the autotune is most obvious so you can listen for it

    listen to the way the notes shift in "yes i un-der-stand" especially the way it gets to the -stand
  • facepollutionfacepollution Posts: 6,834
    Perfect intervals are more likely down to editing than autotune, the vocals could easily be spliced from different takes - that's no uncommon at all. Ed's just trying out a different vocal style. Think about this for a second, has Ed ever really struck you as the kind of singer who needs autotuning?
  • SolarWorldSolarWorld Posts: 1,902
    facepollution wrote:
    Think about this for a second, has Ed ever really struck you as the kind of singer who needs autotuning?

    No shit.
  • Stephen FlowStephen Flow Posts: 3,327
    bigbadbill wrote:
    i am a target wrote:
    yes i have. and he doesn't sound like the album version.
    I pray it's not the same computerized, robotic sound that most R&B singers use these days.

    Auto-tune is a normally used as a pitch corrector... but when it's manipulated and played around with enough it can be used to make your voice sound like a robot, like T-Pain, Lil Wayne, Kanye West and Cher (I think she was the first to use it like this)...

    Ed's voice sounds fairly normal on Just Breathe, I just think it's his delivery that is making it sound kind of odd... I agree that he sounds kind of nasally on this track but it doesn't take much away from the song for me personally.
  • imissyoualreadyimissyoualready Posts: 438
    "Heavy Use"? You and your brother have clearly never used auto-tune.
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  • knikknik Posts: 94
    i am a target wrote:
    yes. i'm not a fan of this song. but i noticed how odd eds vocals sounded and had my brother listen to it and we both agree that there's a heavy use of autotune on just breath.

    any time a singer sounds like a machine, its autotune these days. long sustained notes that don't waver. perfect intervals in the harmonies it's clearly autotuned.

    Dude, let it be. We all know that you dislike the song. Let it go and listen to what you like.
  • imissyoualreadyimissyoualready Posts: 438
    I love you non-musicians who like to talk all techy with words you learn in entertainment weekly.
    This is for you "Target"
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  • Ledbetterman10Ledbetterman10 Posts: 16,956
    imissyoualready wrote:
    I love you non-musicians who like to talk all techy with words you learn in entertainment weekly.


    You don't have to be George Martin to know what auto-tuning is.
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  • JonnyPistachioJonnyPistachio Florida Posts: 10,219
    couldnt this have been said in your other "I dont like Just Breathe' thread?
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  • Mr. PinkMr. Pink Posts: 10
    Does Autotuned mean that it sounds like Ed had a booger stuck in his nose when they put that track down? :shock:
  • GmoneyGmoney Posts: 1,618
    imissyoualready wrote:
    "Heavy Use"? You and your brother have clearly never used auto-tune.
    exactly. this is absurd.
    Further back and forth a wave will break on me, today...
  • halszka123halszka123 Posts: 1,109
    I can't believ people think about autotune on Backspacer.
    Especially Just Breathe - this is pure Ed.
    C'mon people!
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  • imissyoualreadyimissyoualready Posts: 438
    Ledbetterman10 wrote:
    imissyoualready wrote:
    I love you non-musicians who like to talk all techy with words you learn in entertainment weekly.


    You don't have to be George Martin to know what auto-tuning is.


    LOL!!!!!!! Auto-tuning wasnt invented until about 20 years after George Martin produced his last album!!!!

    *I'm now literally rolling on the floor*
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  • Ledbetterman10Ledbetterman10 Posts: 16,956
    imissyoualready wrote:
    Ledbetterman10 wrote:
    imissyoualready wrote:
    I love you non-musicians who like to talk all techy with words you learn in entertainment weekly.


    You don't have to be George Martin to know what auto-tuning is.


    LOL!!!!!!! Auto-tuning wasnt invented until about 20 years after George Martin produced his last album!!!!

    *I'm now literally rolling on the floor*

    But I'm sure he's AWARE OF IT. ya don't think young Giles doesn't let the old man in on the new tricks?
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  • halszka123halszka123 Posts: 1,109
    i am a target wrote:
    i'll see if i can pin down an exactly time when the autotune is most obvious so you can listen for it

    listen to the way the notes shift in "yes i un-der-stand" especially the way it gets to the -stand
    ????
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  • ledveddermanledvedderman Posts: 7,761
    imissyoualready wrote:
    Ledbetterman10 wrote:
    imissyoualready wrote:
    I love you non-musicians who like to talk all techy with words you learn in entertainment weekly.


    You don't have to be George Martin to know what auto-tuning is.


    LOL!!!!!!! Auto-tuning wasnt invented until about 20 years after George Martin produced his last album!!!!

    *I'm now literally rolling on the floor*

    May I introduce you to my friend, sarcasm?
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  • imissyoualreadyimissyoualready Posts: 438
    You don't have to be George Martin to know what auto-tuning is.[/quote]


    LOL!!!!!!! Auto-tuning wasnt invented until about 20 years after George Martin produced his last album!!!!

    *I'm now literally rolling on the floor*[/quote]

    But I'm sure he's AWARE OF IT. ya don't think young Giles doesn't let the old man in on the new tricks?[/quote]

    Two name-drops in one short discussion? I'll mark that up as a victory for me. LOL
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  • pdalowskypdalowsky Doncaster,UK Posts: 15,117
    Look at me look at me

    my translation of the original post
  • ledveddermanledvedderman Posts: 7,761
    Jesus Christ. A topic on autotuning is now a dick measuring contest full of "name drops"
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  • Ledbetterman10Ledbetterman10 Posts: 16,956
    imissyoualready wrote:

    Two name-drops in one short discussion? I'll mark that up as a victory for me. LOL


    A victory for you! Well go ahead and open the Excel spreadsheet that you use to tally your message board victories and a chalk another one up.
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  • imissyoualreadyimissyoualready Posts: 438
    ledvedderman wrote:
    Jesus Christ. A topic on autotuning is now a dick measuring contest full of "name drops"

    Life is a dick-measuring contest full of name-drops.

    You can quote me on that
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  • imissyoualreadyimissyoualready Posts: 438
    Ledbetterman10 wrote:
    imissyoualready wrote:

    Two name-drops in one short discussion? I'll mark that up as a victory for me. LOL


    A victory for you! Well go ahead and open the Excel spreadsheet that you use to tally your message board victories and a chalk another one up.


    How do you know about my spreadsheet?
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  • ledveddermanledvedderman Posts: 7,761
    imissyoualready wrote:
    ledvedderman wrote:
    Jesus Christ. A topic on autotuning is now a dick measuring contest full of "name drops"

    Life is a dick-measuring contest full of name-drops.

    You can quote me on that

    So...what do we do with the 60% of the population that is "dickless"?

    I wouldn't expect too many royalties coming in off that quote.
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  • FirstExitFirstExit Los Angeles Posts: 973
    Ledbetterman10 wrote:
    imissyoualready wrote:
    Ledbetterman10 wrote:
    I love you non-musicians who like to talk all techy with words you learn in entertainment weekly.


    You don't have to be George Martin to know what auto-tuning is.


    LOL!!!!!!! Auto-tuning wasnt invented until about 20 years after George Martin produced his last album!!!!

    *I'm now literally rolling on the floor

    But I'm sure he's AWARE OF IT. ya don't think young Giles doesn't let the old man in on the new tricks?

    I think you're missing the point that "imissyoualready" is trying to make...he's saying that most people now know about AutoTune because of it's heavy use in rap music, but very few people have experience with it. Clearly "imissyoualready" does (so do I), and you're really only supporting his point I guess lol...
  • aspoonfulweighsatonaspoonfulweighsaton Posts: 2,057
    Even if Eddie walked into the studio high out of his mind one day and said he wanted to auto-tune his vocals, Brendan O'Brien would never allow it on one of his Pearl Jam albums.
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