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Video Wednesday: Grandma’s Vocoder

Auto-tune, I’m sorry everyone hates you these days. Blame T-Pain. Or Kanye. Or anyone else who went a little vocoder-crazy during our collective five year bender.

Sure, you take the human element out of singing. But thanks to you, I never have to listen to anyone sing off-key. Besides, every other instrument gets mastered and processed during post-production. Why should vocals be treated differently? I’m on your side.











If any of the tunes contained in this post happen to suit your taste, the artist would probably be thrilled if you considered buying them on iTunes, Beatport, or Amazon.

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by Nick DiLallo

This entry was posted on Wednesday, March 17th, 2010 at 2:49 am and is filed under Disco Daily. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

One Response to “Video Wednesday: Grandma’s Vocoder”

  1. Lron says:
    March 31, 2010 at 5:34 am

    Sorry to get all nerdy on you, but T-Pain et al weren’t using vocoders. They were using auto-tune. I think maybe they sometimes refer to it as a vocoder, but really it’s autotune. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auto_tune

    That vocoder thing is awesome though.

    I’m with you on the use of vocal processing. It’s awesome, but just like any other effect it can be overused.

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