Pitch Correction at Lunch
Now and then Jon pointed out pitch correction on the singers, something he has been looking into recently. It’s the hottest thing around – everybody’s using it. Yeah, it sounds lifeless, yes, it is fairly easily detected by a trained ear,Replica Purses, yep, there are pitch-correction specialists and they cost more than the whole band, but hey, only the best for the fans!
I had lunch with Jon yesterday and while we enjoyed a meal, the restaurant played pop music over their system…
Makes me remember Robin Totten’s book Songs of the Outcast, and his description of hearing a gitano singer holding a note and then flattening in slightly, by a quarter-tone – on purpose of course – and giving everyone goose-pimples. That’s a good thing, a great thing even!
Made us wonder when it will all turn around 360 degrees again, and people will want to hear the real expression that only a great singer is capable of – as opposed to the pop dolls and their pitch-shifted and corrected, sugar-coated blandness…,
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