Originally Posted By: Mark Hayes
The first singer enters astonishingly human, to the point of sounding like a distinctly flawed human singer (believe it or not I mean this in a good way)

Hi, Mark.

That's the AI "auto-tune" feature at work. I sort of prefer the version that sounds like plain old "auto-tune", but adding imperfections helps sell the performance.

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...but the second voice instantly cancels that, and it's total robot duet. I would either omit the second voice entirely or give the countermelody to an instrument, highlighting the main voice and its spiffily happy melody, which, IMO, deserves to be a solo.

Well, the song wasn't originally conceived as a duet, so you've got a point.

However, I've become stupidly fond of this version, so... probably not going to happen.

Besides, I intentionally left the male vocal a bit bland, so not to eclipse the mail vocal.

However, I probably went too far with that, so - just for you wink - I've gone back and re-done the male vocal a bit. It's not a huge improvement, but it's just a bit better if you squint and apply a whole lot of confirmation bias.

What I will do is redo the vocals when a "real" English male vocal is available.

Thanks for listening and the critical feedback! laugh

-- David Cuny
My virtual singer development blog

Vocal control, you say. Never heard of it. Is that some kind of ProTools thing?