[sdiy] Synergy (was Re: OT: Music movies)

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In a message dated 6/27/05 6:41:15 PM, tparkhurst at siliconbandwidth.com writes:

<< BTW, speaking of electronic processing "fads", my daughter likes to listen
to the Disney Channel... I've never heard SO MUCH over corrected vocals in
my life! Song after song sounds like a robot singing. I hope that either a)
my daughter's taste in vocalists matures as she does or b) pitch correction
software gets better and doesn't make everyone sound like a cheap vocoder on
sustained notes. >>

Hey, try listening to some modern "country" music.  That is, the kind of 
stuff coming out of Nashville these days.  Those guys (and gals) LOVE the 
Auto-Tune, at least as much as the little kiddie singers on the Disney Channel do.  
Shania Twain's vocals are easily as fake and processed as her, um, other parts.  
I hate to think what Hank Williams, Johnny Cash, or Patsy Cline would have 
sounded like through one of those things.  There's something sadly ironic about 
the whole thing.  I mean, these "artists" are always singing about roots and 
down-home livin' and gettin' back to basics and keepin' it real and all that.

Michael "good ol' boy" Bacich