Can AUTOTUNE make a bad singer sound good?

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Today we're taking someone with no musical experience and seeing if we can make them sound like a professional using Autotune.

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[PauloCoghii]

Spencer, you've reached such a high level that I believe the only thing left to happen is for you to be discovered by the right people. Please do not underestimate your experience. There are many people who can benefit positively from it. Each of your videos is always a new discovery, and only a few channels give me that!

[nyomandundun]

It's a crime that you have less than 10K followers with your entertaining, educational, and fun videos!
Thank you, Spencer! I am no musician, knows nothing about making music, yet I found your videos inspiring and incredibly fun to watch!.

[drbarbare]

Cuddos to Sarah to put up with you on that one! It takes guts, it really does. I seem to recall voice lessons also emphasizing on the emotions behind a song, it'd be an interesting comparison to hear her again after a bit of voice training.

Meanwhile, I am wondering how tou decide to layout your songs, not only the skeleton, but also how long sentences, when do fills etc... I've decided to go lyrics first for the songs this channel inspired me to write (2 so far!).

[richarddoan]

These lyrics had me rolling. "But only find a void of empty space with constellations that don't look like they're names." Gold!

[kcgunesq]

Pretty much sums up modern music. A label writes a bunch of banal lyrics, sets them to a highly algorithmic "melody" and then pays crap singers to act like they can carry a tune. Give me CCR, Fleetwood Mac or Steely Dan any day over this type of music. That said, you and the singer did a great job illustrating the point.

[lostguy]

Your videos are so entertaining, it's insane that you can make them and post so consistently without losing quality. Keep going, I'm sure one day you'll have big and positive community :)

[calvinstraveldreams]

The short answer is that Autotune (and Melodyne) can make a bad singer TOLERABLE, in that it can make it so that if said singer stays within a very narrow range of notes, then their voice is acceptable enough to where it won’t get in the way of a good instrumental or ruin a good vocal melody (see CHVRCHES, Capital Cities, and Carly Rae Jepsen for examples of how singers with very weak vocal ranges can still make good songs, with the pitch correction compensating for their weaknesses as singers). However, Autotune/Melodyne is NOT a talent replacer, largely because if your notes sound REALLY off, it still won’t sound good…

[Knockitdownow]

Spencer, she is a non-singer, not a bad singer, there is a difference, that I think matters in this production, which is awesome. I love your stuff and how you show the entire process. Keep it up!!!

[jamesfriesen]

A lot of auto tune songs really sound autotuned, but this doesn't. Well done.

[fleshtonegolem]

Your video editing is GREAT! You lay things out in a very easy to understand and logical way.

[DeliciousMorsels]

Dude I love your teaching style. It's quick and to the point but entertaining all along the way, and the end product is always spectacular. I'm definitely looking forward to more videos!

[joeclifford]

This really gave me some owl city vibes haha. There were a few times I felt I could really hear the auto tune through my iPhone speakers haha. But other than that it’s just her tone I’m not a fan of, do we have an auto tone? All that being said for someone who’s untrained and inexperienced she did amazing!

[lilkawasaki]

The fact that this quality of production and edit can be done ba a channel that has less than 10k subscribers. Awesome work there spencer

[DQsMusicStudio]

It's tough to say whether I would be able to detect the Auto-tune use here. It's pretty subtle. I was hoping the experiment would feature an ear-splittingly BAD singer, like Lucy Ricardo. Sarah's actually pretty good, considering her lack of experience, so the end product is good too. I would love it if this experiment of yours won you and her a Grammy.

[viniciuscomacento]

this channel deserves millions of subscribers, just love your videos! keep it up.

[KCGeno]

I absolutely object to singers who can't hold a decent note, and never could, becoming millionaires via AutoTune. (I worked in the country music industry in Nashville, and I know of at least three who match this description.)

I do NOT object to an older entertainer, who USED to be able to sing well, using AutoTune as a help in their old age.

If you can't sing, please don't become a singer for a living. There are too many supremely talented people who are more deserving of their big break.

[adrianstephens]

Yes, I could tell auto-tune was there - but then I'm an amateur musician (a plus) wearing hearing aids (a negative). I loved the song and the outcome. Thank you.

[broderp]

I would have liked to hear the song in its entirety without the autotune for comparison.

[teynamusic]

First, cuddos to Sarah! That was courageous ❤. Second, great job from your side to write a song and arrangement that suits her perfectly. But to be fair, she naturally doesn’t have a bad pitch. I heard way worse!
Pitch was and still is my Achilles heel. I don’t have Autotune, I use VariAudio (Cubase). But I try to use it as less as possible. And I have to say, I started homerecording only 3 years ago and the more I record the better my pitch gets 🤗