Nope, definitely Autotune. Not a vocoder. The two work in completely different ways and those who have used both know the difference.
A vocoder has to have a carrier waveform as well as your vocals(I forget what it's called). The two signals are introduced to each other and combined.
Autotune uses pitch correction. With Autotune you are able to "draw-in" the corrected pitch of one syllable in a word. Very, VERY powerfull. Think of the time (and $$$) saved in the studio when the artist cant sing in tune because they had green M&M instead of brown ones and every other verse is 2 cents flat.
That said, you can actually get a 'vocoder' sound if you tweek the settings. But this is not what was done on the Cher album.
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Nope, definitely Autotune. Not a vocoder. The two work in completely different ways and those who have used both know the difference.
A vocoder has to have a carrier waveform as well as your vocals(I forget what it's called). The two signals are introduced to each other and combined.
Autotune uses pitch correction. With Autotune you are able to "draw-in" the corrected pitch of one syllable in a word. Very, VERY powerfull. Think of the time (and $$$) saved in the studio when the artist cant sing in tune because they had green M&M instead of brown ones and every other verse is 2 cents flat.
That said, you can actually get a 'vocoder' sound if you tweek the settings. But this is not what was done on the Cher album.
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Seth
so...you mix with your meters? I always used my ears. ;)
Excelent point though. I think I read something on Bob Katz's website about that not to long ago.
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Seth
I had a VCR that would skip ALL commercials on playback. It was a feature that you had to turn on - but it was automatic.
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