Originally Posted By: 90 dB
“Understandably, Swift isn't perfect. She fails to hold every note on key, and her vocal ability is less than impressive. But Swift was also dancing and remembering choreography. She was in a loud venue where she could barely hear herself. That's not the most conducive environment for a stellar vocal performance.”


It's easy to take shots from the peanut gallery. Anyone care to post some of their own raw vocal tracks? grin


Exactly, even the best are not perfect. I remember watching a really good concert that was part of Obama's first inauguration. One of the performers was Dianna Krall and she was way out of key yet we all know she's an awesome singer. I can only chalk that up to bad monitoring. If you can't hear yourself as a vocalist, you're dead.

I also agree with the comments about saving studio time and giving an artist what they want. Most studios are not recording big names, they're recording the gazillions of wannabe's who managed to scrape up a couple grand to buy some time for a decent demo. Most need all the help they can get.

Most people are not good singers. I hear that all the time with user's recordings posted here. Not going to name names but when I hear a mix where the vocal is buried, that says the person knows their singing isn't that good and they don't want it out front. Unfortunately that also says to any experienced listener that it's an amateur recording.

It becomes a chicken and egg thing, people use this software to try to create a decent pro level recording yet a pro recording has the vocals right out there front and center, in your face. The user suddenly realizes their vocals don't stand up to that so they deliberately bury them in the mix which just makes the whole mix muddy and amateur sounding and voids the whole reason for using this software in the first place. 'Round and round it goes.

Enter the high tech toys to try to fix that. Or...

Time for some vocal coaching and lots of practice.

Bob

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