1/2 lower - easier to sing? - Page 2

lucey · 17th April 2008

Quote:

Originally Posted by Ruudman

+ 1/2 to a lot of posts in this thread

Ha!

1/2 step can be huge ... even 1/4 step can allow some notes to work better when they are at the top of the range.

On another note, some analog 2 track masters were upped by a percentage point or 3, in effect making them sung flat ... but for a different reason.

nomadh · 21st May 2008

Agreed on the fact its alot easier for me to tune differently or play it differently than for the singer to "retune". I wonder if its the same people who say a half step doesn't matter to a singer but those new resistors in his keely modded tube screamer made his sound and $160 mullard ax7 is the only way his solo can ring out.
The interesting thing I find is how common it is for male singers to want to go down a half step. Is it a funny coincidence the guitar is tuned to e but nearly all singers sing in E flat. Sort of like matching hotdog buns and hotdogs.
Is modern music pushing our vocalists into too high a register where they won't be comfortable? So we all want to hear male voices tortured into a tenor when they want to be baritones? If we just like higher voices maybe we should all be listening to more female vocalists?
Are we "bosai"ing our male singers because we want them to sound stressed and ragged? Our tube amps run with more voltage and current than spec. We turn up to overdrive our speakers and get the tubes cooking. Are we putting the squeeze on our singers? Pat boone probably sings very comfortably but we don't want to listen to him. I want to hear Chris Cornell torture his voice. So maybe all the singers want to tune down but I say lets make every one sing like Cornell!

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21st May 2008	#32
nomadh Gear interested Joined: May 2008 Posts: 8	Agreed on the fact its alot easier for me to tune differently or play it differently than for the singer to "retune". I wonder if its the same people who say a half step doesn't matter to a singer but those new resistors in his keely modded tube screamer made his sound and $160 mullard ax7 is the only way his solo can ring out. The interesting thing I find is how common it is for male singers to want to go down a half step. Is it a funny coincidence the guitar is tuned to e but nearly all singers sing in E flat. Sort of like matching hotdog buns and hotdogs. Is modern music pushing our vocalists into too high a register where they won't be comfortable? So we all want to hear male voices tortured into a tenor when they want to be baritones? If we just like higher voices maybe we should all be listening to more female vocalists? Are we "bosai"ing our male singers because we want them to sound stressed and ragged? Our tube amps run with more voltage and current than spec. We turn up to overdrive our speakers and get the tubes cooking. Are we putting the squeeze on our singers? Pat boone probably sings very comfortably but we don't want to listen to him. I want to hear Chris Cornell torture his voice. So maybe all the singers want to tune down but I say lets make every one sing like Cornell!