“I’m actually quite excited by the possibilities of auto-tune, but not when it’s just used as a cover-up,” said Catherine. “We want to hear Emma Watson sounding like Emma Watson – this doesn’t really match her spoken voice at all. Did The Take Away Auto Tune On The Voice 2017 Yet this past November on the Today Show, the 25-year old Sebert looked vulnerable, standing awkwardly in her skimpy purple, gold, and green unitard. She was there to promote her new album, Warrior, which was supposed to reveal the authentic her.
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The first clip of Emma Watson singing in the new live action Beauty and the Beast has been released and we asked a professional singer to give us her views
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Disney’s new live-action Beauty and the Beast is one of the hotly anticipated films of the year. And one of the reasons is that it’ll be the first time that actress Emma Watson has had to sing as part of a role.
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This week a clip of Emma singing ‘Belle’ was released. We played it to Catherine Bott, a soprano and Classic FM presenter.
“Within two notes it was fairly obvious to me that auto-tune had been deployed,” said Catherine.
“I think Emma Watson’s voice sounds fragile – she’s not a singer – but actually I think it has an innocence to it. And Belle is supposed to be an innocent girl embarking on a great, exciting story.
“I’m really sorry that the studio hasn’t had the courage of their convictions, and has tinkered with Emma Watson’s fragile but pleasant voice. She no longer sounds like Emma Watson.”
Listen for yourself here:
“I’m actually quite excited by the possibilities of auto-tune, but not when it’s just used as a cover-up,” said Catherine. “We want to hear Emma Watson sounding like Emma Watson – this doesn’t really match her spoken voice at all. This makes me rather sad.”
“I guess that the studio just isn’t ready to have it less than perfect and it’s how things are now – everything in recording has got to be absolutely clean as a whistle. And I think we’ve lost that feeling of a live performance, when somebody’s just going for it. If there’s a bit of a mistake it doesn’t matter because it’s so exciting.”
Beauty and the Beast, starring Emma Watson and Dan Stevens, is out in the UK in March.
Autotune your voice using fantastic audio plugins like Waves Tune Lite or Morphoder and start singing jingles even if you’ve never sung a steady note in your life!
Autotune in Popular Culture
Many popular artists use the auto tune effect in their music. The most famous of these is T-Pain who creates a certain sound to his singing voice that many audio creators try to replicate so much so that many call it the ‘T-Pain effect’. In this podcast episode I mention two of the best audio plugins I’ve found that can help you to sound like T-Pain, Akon, Ke$ha or even Cher in her hit “Believe”.
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What’s the Best Version of Adobe Audition?
Tom who listens to the podcast in the UK emailed recently to ask me what my favourite version of Adobe Audition is. He’s on version 3.0 and expressed his concern about upgrading to CS5.5 as he’s heard that many of the features are missing.
In my opinion Adobe Audition CS5.5 took 1 step forward (it was finally compatible with Mac) but 2 steps back in that it lost many of the cool features from 3.0 and previous versions. I remember using Cool Edit Pro from Syntrillium, that was a great bit of kit, I was forever using the ‘paste mix’ feature before the invention of the multitrack.
Adobe Audition has recently come on in leaps and bounds – the latest version is Adobe Audition CS6 – and it’s the best version I’ve seen. I’ve even heard Pro Tools users mention that CS6 stands up well alongside Pro Tools. The great news is that Adobe will let you upgrade for a fraction of the price of buying new even if you’re making the jump from version 1.5 or higher!
How To Autotune Your Voice
If you can’t sing to save your life you’ll be pleased to hear about autotuning and vocoding. There are many plugins that can achieve a singing effect and they work with many of the popular DAWs like Pro Tools and Adobe Audition. I show you how they work in this podcast episode.
Here are the plugins I recommend:
Best Autotune Plugin
This plugin will make your voice sing. Just play your voice into the plugin, it will analyse the input then you can then play the notes you’d like your voice to sing and get a beautiful result. This can have a very practical use if you’re branding a radio station with its own sonic logo. All you need to do is have your voice over artist speak the station name in a monotone voice the plug it into the Waves Tune Lite plugin, play the notes and voila! You’ll have a sung sonic logo by your own radio station voice over.
It’s even possible to notch the voice up a few octaves and achieve various different effects. Listen to my examples in this podcast episode.
Best Vocoder Plugin
Vocoding a voice is another wonderful way to make a plain voice over sing. There was an elementary vocoder in Adobe Audition 3.0 which would allow you to mix your voice with a musical composition or sound effect and make your voice sound exactly like the element you choose. If you’re serious about the vocoder effect you should look into the Morphoder plugin from Waves Audio. It takes your voice and changes it to make it sound like you’re singing.
Here are my top 4 Morphoder plugin presets:
- Bunny
- Major Tom
- Minor Organic
- Robbie
Listen to how I use these vocoder effects in this podcast episode.
Thanksgiving & Black Friday
A very happy Thanksgiving to my American friends and listeners. Black Friday is coming, one of the biggest long retail weekends of the year, and many stores will offer amazing discounts, offers and competitions. You can view all the Music Radio Creative Black Friday deals here.
If you’re thinking about getting some studio kit or other radio, audio or podcasting equipment from Black Friday to Cyber Monday do check out my resources page where I talk about all the studio equipment, web services and audio gear that I’d recommend to you.
New Media Expo 2013 #nmx
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Music Radio Creative will be at NMX 2013 and we hope to see you there in Las Vegas!
Remember to leave a comment on this episode with your thoughts on autotune and vocoding and contact me with any examples you’ve made. I’d love to hear them!
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