Autotune Bass

[JeffTD]

Why do you "tune" the bass?
Is it a bad performance or a matter of perfectionism.

A matter of most bassists pulling notes out of tune and not wanting any kind of straying from pitch on the low end to distort the clarity of your mix.

 

[Trevoire520]

I've had better luck with Melodyne than Autotune for bass.

 

[gabriel g.]

I had better luck with replaying the bass

I never used melodyne (I use waves tune lt. for vocal tuning) so I only demoed autotune for correcting a bass. What a pain in the ass. After some hours I called it a day, took a good bass and replayed the songs.
Took me one hour

 

[darthjujuu]

I had better luck with replaying the bass

I never used melodyne (I use waves tune lt. for vocal tuning) so I only demoed autotune for correcting a bass. What a pain in the ass. After some hours I called it a day, took a good bass and replayed the songs.
Took me one hour

+1, i always re-play bass for bands with retard bass players (in my case, most of them).

never even considered melodyne-ing bass, but i suppose it could be really helpful for cleaning up a mix in some cases. i've heard some pretty bad/obvious/artifacty tune-jobs on bass that sortof turned me off to the whole idea, but ermin/jeff have never led us wrong before...

 

[Ze4th0x]

I've been using midi bass mostly unless the song calls for a more present bass.

 

[kdodson]

I often use Auto Tune's graphical mode to check the intonation of bass. I've also used it a few times to correct intonation issues. A lot of bass players "fret" too hard, causing notes to be sharp.

 

[sangrena]

I tune it note by note in Melodyne.

I do the same.

 

[OneDaySky]

Tune with melodyne, correct pitch on pretty much the entire thing, then edit for timing.

+1