Thursday, July 09, 2009

845 - Music troubles

Is what you are hearing in a song real? Maybe not. Do you already know about this little trick. A pitch adjusting program called 'auto tune' that makes singers sound better. And the fact that it can be built INTO a microphone also. It's been around awhile but not to many people talk about it. Here's a video from Nova Science Now about the program and how it works. The video is segment 3 of the show and about 7 minutes long. Click on the third segment to start it. (the 4th segment is good too)

And as back up, there's a link to a short Wikipedia article with a little more info on auto tune. And then a link to a blog run by a music purist complaining about auto tune. The blogger has examples of songs that have been altered.

VIDEO

WIKI

BLOG

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6 comments:

John A Hill said...

I'll take all the help I can get.

bandit said...

That's very interesting. I would also like to get that kit that grows diamonds.

Did you realize that yesterday was 07/08/08? At 4:05 and 6 seconds AM and PM it was 04/05/06/07/08/09.

bandit said...

07/08/09

Mike said...

J - I don't think even that program could help me.

B - I didn't realize that!!! Did you know in advance?! Why didn't you tell us!!!

B - That's one thing in did know. That yesterday was in 2009.

bandit said...

smart ass

Mike said...

You're half right.