Poll: Your view on auto-tune

[d4rkxy13x]

We've all heard it on the radio, in the bus, or kids listening to it in the city: some pop, R'n'B or electronica song where the singer has a multi-layered electronic voice. This new generation seems to live off it, but I personally would rather have my ears deafened by repetetive close proximity bowel movement noises than to only have that on my PMP. (The only good auto-tunes are the bed intruder kind, I find).

So, what are your views on this new found istrument to make anyone a singer ?

 

[Marter]

Sometimes it sounds okay, usually it's annoying.

 

[niege]

It's only good when they do a parody song of an original autotuned song and makes it over the top with the program.

 

[Tartarga]

I curse whoever the douchebag was who invented that horrid device. Thanks to auto-tune some of the crappiest crap to ever be craped has come into existence. If it were up to me I would ban that stupid thing.

 

[CactiComplex]

It's ok when it's used to create a different sound within a single song, but I hate hearing people using it regularly. It doesn't allow for vocal variation within a song or even a career, it has that horrible effect of making each voice in a group identical, and to be honest it sounds kinda crap when a singer(s) is relying on it to make a career. If you've got to use autotune, you're probably in the wrong business.

 

[Armored Prayer]

The way I see it, if you need some layered electronic voice to sing then your not a good singer.

Of course they're are some exceptions to this. I've heard quite a few songs that used it well, but I hate how everyone with no singing talent uses it.

 

[d4rkxy13x]

I curse whoever the douchebag was who invented that horrid device. Thanks to auto-tune some of the crappiest crap to ever be craped has come into existence. If it were up to me I would ban that stupid thing.

If you ever get to power, please, by all means, feel free to do exactly that.

 

[Disaster Button]

It can be very good when used for certain effects, but most of the time I don't like it, the sound just grates on me.

 

[Alluos]

So long as the singer in question can actually SING and does so throughout most of the song, I'm fine with it being thrown in for half a verse or so.

 

[viranimus]

Ehh.. I personally dont like it that much. It can be ok, if used sparingly and in a relevant way, but having that happen is pretty rare to nigh on non existent.

I dont hate it, because honestly its just another audio bandpass filter. No different from chorus, echo, flange, wah, distortion, etc etc etc. I dont blame the filter, I blame the morons who use it in a lame fashion as a substitute for actual talent.

Honestly about the only song ive heard using it that I enjoy on any sort of level is...


But I think one of the better examples of recent memory of it being used well would be

even though its not a song I particularly like one way or another.

 

[AvsJoe]

When it's used as an instrument, it gets annoying. But when it's used to fix a song by a singer who has no clue how to sing, it's a godsend. So, it's alright, I guess.

 

[spartan231490]

KILL IT WITH FIRE!!!!!
Seriously, I don't find that particular feature all that irritating. I prefer natural voice but I can live with it. But 90% percent of the "songs" that have that effect, do no fit my qualifications for being music. so yeah, kill it with fire.

 

[demoman_chaos]

Thanks toa tuo-tune, all you have to do is find some sezy young lady who is willing to prance around in nearly nothing on a stage and use auto-tune to make her singing not horrid and you have something people will eat up.

I imagine these modern rappers would get decimated in a singing contest against people like Johnny Cash, Michael Jackson, The Bee Gees, etc if auto-tune wasn't there.

 

[Ham_authority95]

I like in electronic music like the following:

Besides that, I don't really care for it in any form. A fad is a fad, and Auto-tune certainly is one of them.

 

[FamoFunk]

It has it's place.

Like on the bed intruder song and stuff.

 

[MassiveGeek]

It can be used very well.

But it's usually absolute, utter crap.

 

[ActionDan]

It's needs to be gone. Simple as that. Justin Goddamn Bieber's whole career is based on this stupid FUCKING machine.