[Ian Bell[_2_]]

I just watched 'An audience with Michael Buble' UK TV. It was 'live' in
front of an invited audience of mainly well known UK names.

Now Buble is not my cup of TV but the wife likes him so I listened for a
while and I am pretty certain I could detect some form of pitch
correction being used. the more closely I listened the more I became
convinced - there were definitely some unnatural sounding flips in pitch.

Anyone know if he does use pitch correction in live gigs?

Cheers

Ian

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On May 23, 5:48*pm, Ian Bell wrote:
I just watched 'An audience with Michael Buble' UK TV. It was 'live' in
front of an invited audience of mainly well known UK names.

Now Buble is not my cup of TV but the wife likes him so I listened for a
while and I am pretty certain I could detect some form of pitch
correction being used. the more closely I listened the more I became
convinced - there were definitely some unnatural sounding flips in pitch.

Anyone know if he does use pitch correction in live gigs?

Cheers

Ian

I haven't seen the program or artist in question but, as I'm sure you
know, many of these live TV performances are recorded (video) with
each camera into a nonlinear editor, and (audio) into its associated
multitrack audio software, so that video and audio issues can be
resolved in post-production. I wouldn't be surprised if pitch
correction was used on the lead vocal track in post.

Pitch correction can be used live, but it's a bit dodgy.

[Don Pearce[_3_]]

On Sun, 23 May 2010 19:12:18 -0700 (PDT), "
wrote:

On May 23, 5:48*pm, Ian Bell wrote:
I just watched 'An audience with Michael Buble' UK TV. It was 'live' in
front of an invited audience of mainly well known UK names.

Now Buble is not my cup of TV but the wife likes him so I listened for a
while and I am pretty certain I could detect some form of pitch
correction being used. the more closely I listened the more I became
convinced - there were definitely some unnatural sounding flips in pitch.

Anyone know if he does use pitch correction in live gigs?

Cheers

Ian

I haven't seen the program or artist in question but, as I'm sure you
know, many of these live TV performances are recorded (video) with
each camera into a nonlinear editor, and (audio) into its associated
multitrack audio software, so that video and audio issues can be
resolved in post-production. I wouldn't be surprised if pitch
correction was used on the lead vocal track in post.

Pitch correction can be used live, but it's a bit dodgy.

I wonder why pitch correction in the rehearsal room has gone so badly
out of fashion.

d

[Charles Tomaras]

"Ian Bell" wrote in message
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I just watched 'An audience with Michael Buble' UK TV. It was 'live' in
front of an invited audience of mainly well known UK names.

Now Buble is not my cup of TV but the wife likes him so I listened for a
while and I am pretty certain I could detect some form of pitch correction
being used. the more closely I listened the more I became convinced -
there were definitely some unnatural sounding flips in pitch.

Anyone know if he does use pitch correction in live gigs?

Cheers

Ian

Don't know about pitch correction but Buble seems to me to have some of the
worst live microphone technique I have witnessed. He's often off mic when
hand held and doesn't seem to have a good grasp of the physics of it all,
often letting his voice fall off and get buried by the musicians or audience
ambience of the location. I'd imagine any decent live engineer doesn't let
his finger get too far from Buble's fader or feels the urge to push him into
compression.

[Live Sound Audio]

AutoTune is available in Digidesign Venue consoles. It works fantastic. Of course it works best when it's not noticed!

[geoff]

Charles Tomaras wrote:

Ian

Don't know about pitch correction but Buble seems to me to have some
of the worst live microphone technique I have witnessed.

I go for a 'taste-correction' box. But that's just me.


geoff

[Moshe]

On Sun, 23 May 2010 22:48:14 +0100, Ian Bell wrote:

I just watched 'An audience with Michael Buble' UK TV. It was 'live' in
front of an invited audience of mainly well known UK names.

Now Buble is not my cup of TV but the wife likes him so I listened for a
while and I am pretty certain I could detect some form of pitch
correction being used. the more closely I listened the more I became
convinced - there were definitely some unnatural sounding flips in pitch.

Anyone know if he does use pitch correction in live gigs?

Cheers

Ian

This has been discussed on gearslutz a few times.

Michael has a minor speech impediment that sounds a lot like Auto-Tune
gone amok.

Certain words kind of sound like he is sucking in helium or something.
Hard to describe, but it's just like typical pitch correction software
on the "fix it all" setting.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MYgqZYQYzwA

Listen at 0:58 and 1:39 or so to hear it in action. You can hear it
mostly when he pronounces the word "fly".

Of course that doesn't mean he isn't using auto tune or other pitch
correction software as well.


Just my 2 cents.