Originally Posted by David Snyder
One time someone asked Paul McCartney what they did back in the days when you didn't have autotune.

He said you had to know how to sing.

Indeed. I remember a story about the Beatles working on the vocal parts and harmony for one of their songs. A lot of the frustration and animosity in the group came from Paul's obsession to get the vocal parts perfect. He'd often spend a week or more just doing take after take after take chasing the beyond perfect take. After all, like you said, they couldn't simply melodyne the track and call it done. Pitch, timing, groove, emotion, all had to be there from the take. And it's also noteworthy that they didn't have the luxury of digital. They were limited to 4 or 8 tracks in the early days, on real magnetic tape that wore out a little bit with each head pass.

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