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highplainsdem

(49,174 posts)
Sun Aug 13, 2023, 04:25 PM Aug 2023

Fil (Wings of Pegasus) rant about Randy Meisner's live '70s performances being AUTO-TUNED now

I'd seen the video days ago where he first mentioned this atrocity, but hadn't gotten around to posting it.

Today he posted a new video about it, a righteous rant that you should hear first.

Today's video, then the much longer earlier one:




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Fil (Wings of Pegasus) rant about Randy Meisner's live '70s performances being AUTO-TUNED now (Original Post) highplainsdem Aug 2023 OP
He Used The Word "Ridiculous" ProfessorGAC Aug 2023 #1
Yes. The autotuned version sounds robotic, as Fil said. It's so irritating to highplainsdem Aug 2023 #2
fil has a fab channel...btw old simon & garfunkels are on the autotune block he has said. in msongs Aug 2023 #3

ProfessorGAC

(65,581 posts)
1. He Used The Word "Ridiculous"
Sun Aug 13, 2023, 05:42 PM
Aug 2023

He's right! That autotuned version does sound ridiculous.
Really good singers work the notes. They don't want every note static at exact pitch for 2 seconds.
No vibrato, no glissandos, no part tone mordents, sucks the life out of the vocal.

highplainsdem

(49,174 posts)
2. Yes. The autotuned version sounds robotic, as Fil said. It's so irritating to
Sun Aug 13, 2023, 08:30 PM
Aug 2023

listen to. Almost painful.

Just WRONG.

msongs

(67,549 posts)
3. fil has a fab channel...btw old simon & garfunkels are on the autotune block he has said. in
Sun Aug 13, 2023, 09:09 PM
Aug 2023

fact auto tuning back catalog seems to be thing

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