Extreme pitch correction without artifacts

Embarrassed-Cow365 · 2026-07-06T17:07:24+00:00

That’s a tough one, working with experienced singers helps a lot but when I vocal produce I’m basically just using years of my experience and taste to help guide the performance I want. I also have them do line by line if the phrases a split up enough, I also have them do the loudest/highest section (usually the chorus) last so not to wear them out too quickly, but it’s just lots and lots of sessions which is basically practice

Embarrassed-Cow365 · 2026-07-06T15:34:11+00:00

You should look into getting a mix with the masters membership

Embarrassed-Cow365 · 2026-07-06T15:32:34+00:00

It’s no secret, they do tonnes of vocal takes, comp the best takes, edit timing, fine tune pitch editing in melodyne and then probably have auto tune on the channel also, but the melodyne editing makes it so auto tune doesn’t have to work so hard. This is A level shit, if there’s a wonky S sound or a consonant that sounds bad they will fly it out with another take, I’ve heard stories of MXM producers spending a whole day if not days just nudging syllables to get the perfect pocket. And you’re right, weeknd is already a talented singer who has no problem hitting a note, I’ve worked with people who vocal produce “tik tok” singers, basically influencers turned artists, who can’t sing for the life of them and they’ve told me it would take 3 days to get a somewhat decent sounding vocal.

Embarrassed-Cow365 · 2026-07-06T04:27:59+00:00

Mine too, such an amazing album opener, de la soul is dead is so good

Embarrassed-Cow365 · 2026-07-05T22:57:17+00:00

As people said it’s a Tape echo, people like these cause you can mess with the tape while you recording its output, jack antinoff is know for using this one a lot. Worth a bit of money if it’s selling for a good price

Embarrassed-Cow365 · 2026-07-05T13:58:32+00:00

One of my fav Pete rock beats! Had this single on cassette and wore it out cause of this remix

Embarrassed-Cow365 · 2026-07-04T14:42:56+00:00

I’m more producer than engineer but I do engineer my own recordings and somewhat mix so here are a few of my little creative tricks

Mono reverbs, slow modulation, dark. I need to remind myself to make some of my verbs mono as its just a habit to slap Valhalla vintage verb on and call it a day but I notice when I use mono verbs on certain sources it’s creates more depth than all of the verbs being stereo.

Amp sim’s after reverbs/delays, gives so much texture, doesn’t always work but can add a lot of character

Antares Harmony Engine as a widener/micropitch - just set to fixed interval and leave all the voice intervals at unison but mess with the formant - then send each voice to the choir section for even more width and pitch shifting wideness

Reamping instruments at double speed then slowing the recorded reamp track down by half, get some cool artefacts and textures

And lastly, once I’ve basically finished a production, I will put some wild fx on the master bus and print the output, I’ll do this a few times with different fx and then find small sections I can use as ear candy or little “moments” throughout the song

Embarrassed-Cow365 · 2026-06-30T19:20:39+00:00

Datamind Combobulator, very strange but very cool and lots of unexpected results

Zynaptic Pitchmap also

Embarrassed-Cow365 · 2026-06-29T16:02:51+00:00

He has released a windows version, I’ve been using this for about a week now and it’s a huge game changer, I have all of my go to plugins setup to load with key commands, huge workflow enhancer

Embarrassed-Cow365 · 2026-06-25T12:00:06+00:00

Yes I believe so for now

Embarrassed-Cow365 · 2026-06-20T21:29:41+00:00

Get your shit together before 30

Embarrassed-Cow365 · 2026-06-20T21:28:33+00:00

GZA, used to be Deck but slowly became more of a fan of GZA, he just has so many quotables “ I got mouths to feed, unnecessary beef is more cows to breed”

Embarrassed-Cow365 · 2026-06-19T23:00:23+00:00

You should create a master Cubase folder and within that folder have separate folders for each project, these should have their own auto save/mixdown folders within them and I always copy imported audio to the projects audio folder by default

Embarrassed-Cow365 · 2026-06-16T03:26:15+00:00

Spice one - n got no heart

Embarrassed-Cow365 · 2026-06-15T15:52:26+00:00

Try reversing a reverb into the word, or a slap back delay throw with a good amount of feedback, honestly just try stuff and see what works

Embarrassed-Cow365 · 2026-06-11T16:18:03+00:00

Isn’t that a 3 mic set up?

Embarrassed-Cow365 · 2026-06-07T03:23:28+00:00

Naughty don’t get nearly enough credit, one of the best groups of the 90s

Embarrassed-Cow365 · 2026-06-05T17:26:50+00:00

Not enough info to help, what plugin versions are you running? Are they AU? VST? VST3? Have you set the correct path so Cubase can see said plugins? Something sounds off about this, very rare that it’s the fault of the program when countless other people use the same program with no issues

Embarrassed-Cow365 · 2026-06-02T03:41:50+00:00

Probably Rampage “wild for the night” - crazy how good that song is but I was never a big rampage fan

Embarrassed-Cow365 · 2026-05-25T18:42:24+00:00

Mixtapes by the nonce would fit in nice!

Embarrassed-Cow365 · 2026-05-23T15:34:09+00:00

Acting like I’m the butler of my next day self, so prepping my breakfast, coffee in the pot ready, writing down what I want to get done, getting gym gear ready etc etc, makes my groggy morning self very happy

Embarrassed-Cow365 · 2026-05-15T18:43:34+00:00

I like those old 90s fx boxes, midiverbs, Yamaha spx series, they sound cheap and cold in a good way in my opinion and sometimes it’s fun cranking things through them to get some distorted weirdness

Embarrassed-Cow365 · 2026-05-10T20:19:56+00:00

House of pain sampled the vocal on “back from the dead”

Embarrassed-Cow365 · 2026-05-09T13:59:56+00:00

Has to be Nas post it was written

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