How To Use Auto-Tune For Natural Pitch Correction (or an effect) - RecordingRevolution.com

Auto-Tune has been around for decades now and is a game changing production tool. Love it or hate it, it's here to stay.

But HOW you use it can make or break your vocal tracks.

Most people want to use Autotune in a natural, discrete manner so that the listener never knows that there was any pitch correction. This tutorial will show you how to do that.

At the end of the video I'll also show you how to get that obvious T-Pain or Cher AutoTune effect - in case you want to go in that direction!

[mpmusic]

Everyone says that autotune is "cheating, " but it's just another tool to enhance the mix, like EQ or compression.

[brodieny]

That reverb delay combo on the vocal is super nice

[piscesman]

This works very well on classic major or minor keys. But when you're singing blues or rock, where you're doing a lot of sliding in or tightening notes, it's not so simple. It starts to correct stuff it thinks is wrong, but was actually intended to be that way. I've found that in that kind of situation, you almost have to do it manually on a note-by-note basis. Very time-consuming, to say the least, but it gets better results.

[lenzocorner]

I love that you didn't shy away from praising God while sharing your talent. Big ups bro; all for HIS glory.

[wlflightlr]

Hi Graham, I love when you & your friend Joe Gilder do these "short" & to the point videos. They have really helped my mixes... now I have more time to get back to recording!

[Chezame]

Could you do a vidoe on melodyn stYle of pitch corrections for when you have to work with terrible vocals haha

[garrysmythe]

Thanks for a brilliant video, to educate me, a 67 year old idiot who does like to play guitar and sing, both very badly might I add, is a feat in itself but I understand much more, I will now look at all your videos, big thanks from Garry in the UK

[zachj]

My boi graham loves the Lord 😭😭😭🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

[kevindelk]

That's a good learning tool to use. U can see exactly where you're flat or sharp.
Especially if u don't have a good ear

[seancampbellmusic]

It was a pleasant suprise to find that the sample song is a worship song!

[bradwk]

I find that for my own stuff the most important aspect of using autotune (as a fix, not as an "effect") is to automate when to turn it on or off, and to automate the depth (amount) and/or the wet-dry mix. Most importantly, any places where a syllable is meant to be a gradient from one note to another, autotune must off. Assuming you don't want that "staircase" sound.

Typically I will have just one or two notes that need strong autotune, such as a long held vowel that had an unfortunate drift in the take. Here I might go 80%/20% wet/dry, or (rarely) 100% wet. And I wouldn't have the entire word be strongly autotuned, but rather automate from a starting level of 20% or less wet before the word starts, then slope it up over ~200ms to max wet just after the consonant has finished and the long vowel gets going. I experiment until the transition cannot be noticed, and the effect is doing all good, no harm.

Elsewhere the singing will have no autotune. Or depending on the song a light amount (20% wet) mixed in throughout, which, I discovered accidentally, can bring some depth and richness to a vocal, kind of like adding a better version of yourself as a backing vocalist. :-)

When in doubt though, I leave it off. A little bit of tonal inaccuracy is human and is part of the vocal character. And anymore I will record 12+ takes of the same vocal, to end up with one or two takes of each phrase or word that isn't noticeably flawed.

[shafman]

I enjoyed your video. I've watched a few that were very long-winded. Your video was very easy to understand and follow for pitch correction. Thanks!

[MusicscreenBe]

Very clear and very informative tutorial! Many thanx RecordingRevolution!!!

[ForeverRollingFilms]

Thank you about to get this certification in the next few weeks!

[chrispinelli]

Hey, thanks for the helpful content in these videos and love how you have the courage to use your worship songs for these videos.

[CHOLIO]

The guide is incredible Graham ! Greatly appreciated ! Keep it up :)

[oldSailor]

Still making music, we miss you here on recordingrevolution!

[truthgrace]

Thankyou so much. But now I want to know where that song is... I love that song.

[jeffkay]

Thank you for the great lesson. Nice song BTW.

[DigantaBormedhiPraiseNWorship]

Thank you so much for detailed information. I mostly record worship songs in Acoustic guitar and vocal. But sometimes i sing flat which sounds awful. I have never use Autotune but i will try to use this time.