Listened multiple times with headphones and didn't pick up any autotune - if it's used it is incredibly subtle and only the anally retentive would notice.
^ or the professional.
Sometimes you just can't help but notice if you know what it sounds like.
If they did use autotune, and I'm not saying they didn't, the result is pretty subtle. I don't hear the tell-tale signs myself, but maybe that's because we don't have the high quality audio yet. Still, I do think BradMay is suffering from a little bit of confirmation bias ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confirmation_bias ): I don't think autotune has been used quite as excessively or as blatantly as he is suggesting. That's not a dig or an insult, I do think he has a point in essence, but I can't imagine someone as anal-retentive about musical detail as Brian May accepting extreme amounts of autotune, and I don't hear it myself. I'll give them the benefit of the doubt for now.
I always turn to my fiancee and make a remark about tunes that use autotune and how I hate the sound - to the point that I try to avoid it when making music or recording others.
Still, I've listened to those examples in the first post and... I can't hear it. If it definitely is there, it must be more subtle than normal autotune usage. I'm usually very sensitive to hearing it. I've heard it on Kerry Ellis' album with Brian, for instance. Oh well...
I always turn to my fiancee and make a remark about tunes that use autotune and how I hate the sound - to the point that I try to avoid it when making music or recording others.
Still, I've listened to those examples in the first post and... I can't hear it. If it definitely is there, it must be more subtle than normal autotune usage. I'm usually very sensitive to hearing it. I've heard it on Kerry Ellis' album with Brian, for instance. Oh well...
It isn`t as noticable as regular autotune because it`s Melodyne, you can pitch shift stuff by microcents but it will still have a sort off robotic character.
There most likely ISN'T a record released these days without being autotuned and pro tooled half to death, across all genres (especially the chart pop and 'R&B' stuff).
You say "it's Melodyne" - How do you know that? Btw, I use Melodyne, so I'm very familiar with it.
As a little sidenote trivia for folk, tuning corrections have been happening since the 80s! Don't believe me? Go research it. :P
Didn't Stockhausen experiment with pitch-correcting (well, 'correcting' or at least subtly 'shifting') specifically FOR the odd 'robotic' effect well before that time? Granted, it's not Autotune or Melodyne, but it's of a like nature.
You say "it's Melodyne" - How do you know that? Btw, I use Melodyne, so I'm very familiar with it.
As a little sidenote trivia for folk, tuning corrections have been happening since the 80s! Don't believe me? Go research it. :P
Because i use Melodyne as well (For a couple of years now) and even though you cán microtune notes after a couple of cents you will still get a very slight robotic character (like on Freddie`s voice)
It`s more subtle than with autotune, but it ìs noticable
Have you considered the possibility that, because it is so subtle and you are specifically looking for it, you are getting a large number of false positives?
There most likely ISN'T a record released these days without being autotuned and pro tooled half to death, across all genres (especially the chart pop and 'R&B' stuff).
That is very true. So much recording now has become very clinical.
I guess the problem that Queen face in this "modern" world of perfection is that although Freddie was brilliant it is now 2014 and anything they release with his vocal is competing with average singers who, because of modern techniques in recording, sound perfect. So they are forced in a way to level the playing field
