[Max Arwood]

Especially not good for karaoke! Why? Because if someone sings from
cassette tapes, the pitch correction might be worse than the real thing.
Tapes are not good to use with correction software or hardware. Tapes seem
to never be made to or play back at the right pitch. Cd's would be better,
but not all studios use A440. The only way it would sound better, would be
if the person sang kinda on pitch, and the tracks were on CD, and the CD was
recorded at A440. Pitch correction boxes can tune to different pitches, but
how would you know what the pitch was? If there were rehearsals before the
performance, then you could decide if it is better or worse.

Max Arwood


"Mickey" wrote in message
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[top-quoting fixed]
On 2007-11-27, news to me wrote:
"Romeo Rondeau" [email protected] wrote in message
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peter wrote:
I see some pitch correction box (e.g.
http://www.tc-helicon.com/Default.asp?Id=10402). I have never used or
hear them before. Would it be a good toy to add to a karaoke setup?

If I understand correctly, if someone sings off key, I can turn on this
device and make everything on-key?

What happens if someone talks while this device is on, does the speech
get turned into musical notes?

Some people mentioned it makes the voice sound processed, or robotic.
Do
the more expensive unit do better or are they pretty much the same?

If you are singing real far off the mark, the box will glitch horribly.
I
think it would be a disaster in a karaoke setup, but then again what do
I
know?

Well yes it would be a disaster - not only from the stand-point of going
far
enough off-key, but ppl who dont hear well will now hear worse because
they
will not be listening to what thet are singing but being processed - much
harder to self-correct

If you can do it in mains only, and have no correction in the monitor,
(with good isolation) it makes just a bit of sense. But you would want
to only do it for semi-good singers. You don't want to do it for
someone who has good pitch, and if they were doing a song song where
there purposeful sharps and flats or half-tones, it could send them
bonkers, I am sure.

I had a guy do it to me one night, and I couldn't quite tell what was
wrong, but I knew something was. I went and asked him what the heck
effects he was using, and boom -- Helicon vocal processor with pitch-
correction on. I told him "don't do that".

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[rboy]

I know if I saw one at a karaoke place I'd ask for my money back, and
not because of glitches. I want to see you sing "Wind Beneath My
Wings" drunk and wildly NPN-autotuned. Isn't that 90% of the fun of
karaoke night?