This is officially my first blog post. I haven’t exactly figured out if this is the title I want or not, but I like my url choice. This blog won’t be about something very specific, like some people have blogs exclusively devoted to politics, or movies, or music, etc. It will be about whatever may be on my mind at the moment, which could include any of those things and more. So I hope you can tolerate my various musings and rants.
In this spirit, I’ll relay a rant I had in my car the other day.
I. Hate. Auto-Tune.
For those of you who don’t know, here is a Wikipedia entry on it http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auto-Tune. Auto-Tune is an audio-processor used in recording studios (and even more sadly, now often in live performances) that corrects pitches that are off. In other words, it makes bad singers sound passable. Never mind the fact that this is totally lame and if you use it, you probably have no business recording music in the first place, but in a live performance it is dishonest, unethical, and completely lacking in all integrity. On top of that, the widespread use of it is dumbing down music and making everything sound the same.
Ok, now that I’ve gotten that out of my system, I’ll tell you what got me thinking about this in the first place. Auto-Tune is also used in very obvious ways to distort vocals. Check this out for further explanation http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fYzv-AVi78E. (David, you’ll like this one, it has Weird Al in it). Think
/end of rant
