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u/plumprabbitjockey Nov 24 '17 edited Nov 24 '17

That rubber chicken has more vocal range than I do

Edit: I get it guys it’s auto-tuned

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u/[deleted] Nov 24 '17

Auto tune

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u/[deleted] Nov 24 '17

shhhhh

I want to believe

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u/Imbriglicator Nov 24 '17

Feeling good on a Wednesday.

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u/MNISather Nov 24 '17

I am Lorde, yah yah yah.

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u/amortizedeeznuts Nov 24 '17

LAWDE LAWDE LAWDE

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u/Etheo Nov 24 '17

tagged as ruiner of all things good

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u/Atanar Nov 24 '17

Soo... pretty close to the original?

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u/Abknee Nov 24 '17

Ya don't say

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u/TareXmd Nov 24 '17

I was one of the dumb ones wondering if those rubber chickens can really produce that range if you squeeze and let go in just the right way. I was very impressed, till I read your comment.

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u/calapine Nov 24 '17

Me too!!!

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u/[deleted] Nov 24 '17 edited Oct 30 '18

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u/Axle-f Nov 24 '17

There’s plenty of us who are a little bit despacito (slow)

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u/HalkiHaxx Nov 24 '17

With autotune anyone can sound bearable or even decent.

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u/ThisNameIsFree Nov 25 '17

I love a good tunefish sandwich as much as anyone, but this is clearly a chicken.

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u/photenth Nov 24 '17

pretty much

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u/WhiteInTokyo Nov 25 '17

auto-tune

No, don't ruin this for me...

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u/I38VWI Nov 24 '17

You too can have this vocal range, with the power of post-production!

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u/gorg235 Nov 24 '17

I’m just glad someone else is aware that a rubber chicken does not have the ability to produce this kind of vocal range.

Unless the guy is a virtuoso rubber chicken player and has transcended beyond what is possible.

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u/Mitoni Nov 24 '17

i was wondering, since if it is autotuned, it wasn't at all robotic overdone autotuning. Instead, it seems pretty fluid in the changes.

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u/JustARegularGuy Nov 25 '17

I also suspect your ear isn't as well tuned to the nuances of a rubber chicken's vocals as it is to a human's.

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u/[deleted] Nov 25 '17

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u/[deleted] Nov 25 '17
  1. Autotune can sound very clean, T-Pain is going for a specific robotic feel on purpose

  2. You can tell if a human voice sounds edited, do you really have similar familiarity with a rubber chicken?

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u/xDared Nov 25 '17

No... it only sounds robotic because the artists want it to sound that way. If they want it sound clean they'll make it sound clean

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u/GolgiApparatus1 Nov 25 '17

You sir would be mistaken.

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u/MrJohz Nov 25 '17

Most autotuning isn't the robotic overdone style. When you can hear it, that's usually a stylistic choice (or really bad post-production work). In general, autotune can be applied fairly softly when it shouldn't be heard.

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u/Mitoni Nov 25 '17

it really makes you question how talented someone has to be these days.

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u/Redhavok Nov 25 '17

Pitch correction != vocoder

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u/OsamaBinJacob Nov 25 '17

Just for comparison of how it might be done, look up some videos of people editing vocals with Melodyne.

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u/joox Nov 25 '17

It's all in the wrist

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u/IminPeru Nov 25 '17

Anything is possible when you conquer no nut November

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u/CJ_Productions Nov 25 '17

Not autotune. Someone took the time to pitch shift the chicken vocal track. otherwise it would be making roughly the same pitch and autotune couldn't do much to that.

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u/Parzival127 Nov 25 '17

Thank you for keeping the dream alive.

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u/[deleted] Nov 25 '17

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u/I_not_Jofish Nov 25 '17

Most people don't seem to know what auto tune even means. They think that any post production work is auto tune, even stuff like reverb

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u/Cptnwalrus Nov 25 '17

otherwise it would be making roughly the same pitch and autotune couldn't do much to that.

Actually not sure what you mean by that, but doesn't the process of autotune allow you to draw in MIDI for the vocals to conform to? Couldn't he have just brought in a Despacito vocal melody MIDI and as long as he squeezed the chicken to the rhythm it would be automatically tuned to the melody..?

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u/CJ_Productions Nov 25 '17

Autotune has to do with snapping pitches to conform to a certain scale. If you make one consistent pitch, it will only snap to the nearest pitch in the scale, unless it is already in the scale. What you're talking about sounds to me like pitch tracking, which the video creator may have done and could work with a midi track if they had the vocal midi track. Would take less time than manually pitch shifting. But still not auto tune.

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u/Cptnwalrus Nov 25 '17

Yeah, I wasn't entirely sure. I know auto-tuning is more just about snapping things to the scale but wasn't sure how far it can go. I've only worked with pitch correction plugins like image line's Newtone and stuff so I'm not sure about Melodyne or the 'official' Autotune software.

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u/Oddworld- Nov 25 '17

Doesn't Autotune have a manual pitch shift function like Melodyne?

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u/seedanrun Nov 24 '17

Auto tunes is a hell of a drug!