| LISTEN UP!
Melodyne is very sensitive to recording quality. I've placed ads that offer vocal tuning to home studios, so I've worked with many poor recordings. If you start out with a crappy sounding track, Melodyne will render it completely horrible and artificial sounding. If you start out with an excellent track recorded VERY dry (no room sound) Melodyne will be close to the original, even with fairly extreme settings. It will take out a bit of the air on a track, but I find it's usually easy enough to EQ back into the track. Sooo.... if you think you may need to use MElodyne on a vocalist, try putting up some extra baffles and eliminate the room sound as much as possible.
As for Antares and the others.... yuck! Melodyne rules. (but that's just me) |