Originally Posted By: Mike Halloran
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It's probably safe to say that there are few, if any, studio recordings over the past 60 years that haven't used some kind of wizardry to get the production as wanted,


Outside of the world of commercial pop music, there are many artists who will not use it at all. Two words: Willie Nelson

I've been trying to ignore that, but it's been getting to me. Sorry.

By "some kind of wizardry" I most definitely did not mean that everyone uses some kind of pitch correction. I did mean that top flight singers and others will at the very least do occasional retakes and that the recordings will almost certainly have some level of mixing/production done on them. And I also recognise that a fair number would avoid even that as far as they can.

What I meant was that if pitch correction gets someone a production with which they are happier, then don't be shy/embarrassed about using it.

Originally Posted By: Mike Halloran
Melodyne only works well on voices if the wave forms are simple enough. Otherwise, it can sound horrible.

I agree entirely.

I feel exactly the same also about the amount of compression and 'ducking' used in so many modern recordings. It makes me feel like someone is squeezing my head.

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