just breath is autotuned

i am a target
i 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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  • SolarWorld
    SolarWorld 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 target
    i am a target Posts: 808
    yes i have. and he doesn't sound like the album version.
  • Ledbetterman10
    Ledbetterman10 Posts: 17,017
    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.
    Post edited by Ledbetterman10 on
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  • bigbadbill
    bigbadbill 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 target
    i 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
  • facepollution
    facepollution 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?
  • SolarWorld
    SolarWorld 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 Flow
    Stephen 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.
  • imissyoualready
    imissyoualready Posts: 438
    "Heavy Use"? You and your brother have clearly never used auto-tune.
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  • knik
    knik 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.
  • imissyoualready
    imissyoualready 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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  • Ledbetterman10
    Ledbetterman10 Posts: 17,017
    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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  • JonnyPistachio
    JonnyPistachio Florida Posts: 10,219
    couldnt this have been said in your other "I dont like Just Breathe' thread?
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  • Mr. Pink
    Mr. 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:
  • Gmoney
    Gmoney 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...
  • halszka123
    halszka123 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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  • imissyoualready
    imissyoualready 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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  • DiRtYyELLoWoCeAn
    DiRtYyELLoWoCeAn Medford, Ma Posts: 1,605
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  • Ledbetterman10
    Ledbetterman10 Posts: 17,017
    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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  • halszka123
    halszka123 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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