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Originally Posted by quantumpsych  as far as i know, auto tuning a live performance with recalled parameters developed durring the tracking therof, is not practical enough to be widely implemented. the cost of doing this would be insurmountable for most bands, but certainly not for top-tier major acts.
this is obviously better than dubed lipsync but is it THAT much better that it should be acceptable among the performers? if they say no to their managers and producers, are they really that susceptable to being dropped? am i really that naive? |
Actually it's very common that with a large scale production, a performer singing "live" to studio or concert audience is later re-tuned for broadcast. To take it to the extreme, a friend of mine worked on an S-Club live DVD a good few years back - his job was to replace all the main vocals with the parts from the record, and to tune the adlibs. now that's cheating!
That said, I saw Cheryl Cole perform on X-Factor a few weeks ago. She was either miming or had a very loud double track in the choruses, but the verse vocals were definitely live - weren't bad, but obviously nothing like the supertuned recording (it's just not possible to sing modern pop live IMO, even for a good singer). I think this was live to broadcast though, so no chances for technical magic there.