How to Tune Vocals - Warren Huart: Produce Like A Pro

Warren shows how to tune vocals using Auto Tune

Produce Like A Pro is a website which features great tips to help the beginning recordist make incredible sounding home recordings on a budget.

[FrankComolli]

I particularly appreciate your direct clarity without a lot of unnecessary dialog..to the point.. and your tips really work..mille grazzi

[MrLauwersJelle]

You, sir, are a marvellous teacher! I love watching your videos.

[Jordansparte]

Most people that do music tutorials aren't very good singers. You however are the exception, you're very good! And I love your channel man!

[Fiveash-Art]

That bass line kicks ass .. catchy darkness bruh. "Adds to the passion"🤘🏻😂🤘🏻... I wanna hear the whole song. Good vocals

[Spoolz]

Your videos are brilliant Warren, it makes such a difference to have a fun teacher who knows his subject well. Superbly presented and full of really good tips and ideas. Thank you!

[KachiizMusic]

Hi Warren! I just woke up early this morning and found your channel. I've watched about 4 now and I can't contain the excitement I feel. I love music production & Djn it's my true passion. I've consistently been able to learn a few tips here and there about production and honestly cannot wait to get training from a pro! Thank you for sharing your knowledge

[PsalmMiracle]

ive been a mix engineer for awhile and so
of your tricks you are using have been so helpful, you are such a great engineer i like what you do and thank

[Samos]

On a more serious [and perfectly in pitch] note...  I'm having a surprising amount of success using a super soft bit of auto-tune during tracking.  I'm not blessed genetically with great vocal powers, nor are my vocal chops as fit as they could be as I don't go to the vocal gym every day (nor the other kind for that matter).  I always figured I would be "against" auto tune, but using it while tracking not only gives me much more solid tracks, it actually helps me to sing on pitch better while I'm laying it down.  Best of all, it doesn't make me sound like a robot one little bit.  I always prefer to do things "pre" whenever possible.  Loving your videos Warren, you are a blessing to us all.

[guillermozanky]

I'm just learning how to record and produce my own music in my home estudio so this tutorials even when I can't understand all of them are just amazing! Thanks a lot for sharing them, I will just keep practicing.

[mijiero]

as always...amazing tutorial and tips from Mr Warren...hope for more informative tutorial videos from you...have a nice day ya

[ADGreen-eshm]

Warren your song sounds fantastic ! I've never used audio tune... not that I shouldn't, it's shoulds human, gotta love it !

[bradsmithmba]

Great video.  Thank you for sharing your knowledge.  There is definitely an art to tuning vocals and watching someone work who understands the craft is really helpful.

[michaelwatkins]

Very nice info that works for us home recording folks. Thank you !

[CortMarshal]

I am doing marvelously well now that my vocals are in tune. Thanks!

[miroslaw]

Hi Warren. Great video. I know from experience that tuning vocals is a sensitive subject in vocal production and engineers often abuse the auto tune. I like to treat just those bits that need to be tuned without affecting those good ones. That's like you present it in the video.
I like to keep the vocal sounding as natural as possible cause I like those little imperfections that contribute to the song.
One tip about setting the key signature. It's often good to ignore the chords in the music and analyse just the vocal melody line. In your video you could easily set the key signature to D maj as all the notes you sing there are from D maj scale.
Thanks.

[joshuasethlayne]

I'm in school for Audio Production and Music Management and seriously, your videos have helped tremendously. I swear I learn more about these important details from genius's like you on YouTube than the instructors at my school. Are there any schools you would recommend? like Middlesex University in England? I so want to leave the states lol

[RishyCupTV]

Fascinating! And LOVED your voice on this! I even can appreciate some pitchiness when the passion is there. Nice and organic! 👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽

[RicoLee]

First time hearing him sing. Pretty cool. And that is a smart/good autotune with no anoying artifacts

[ginob]

Wow, what an amazing set of pipes you have Warren! Is there anything you can't do well musically?!

[GeekTherapyRadio]

I completely understand this method for a self-confessed non-vocalist. Your voice sounds very good for this song, by the way...

For a through-and-through lead vocalist however, I'd just say "let's try it again" until we got a good take.

I only like to use auto-tune as a very relaxed safety net with a very relaxed re-tune setting. I set it around 60 for my voice personally.

As with anything creative, it 100% depends on the material. For a balls-to-the-wall punk song, I wouldn't dare bring up the plugin.

On a pop song, I'll put AT on every vocal track (lead, backup, doubles, etc...) with retune set around 30...or less...or more....

Also, for anyone reading this, autotune isn't the magic wand it's hyped to be. A terrible singer will still sound terrible or worse with autotune. It works best with good singers in material that applies (pop, dance, etc).

Again, that's why my go to technique is to get a great take, then only apply as a loose safety net if applicable.

Autotune is neither good or bad. It just "is." It's just a tool in the tool kit.