Melodyne, Reamping, and Downtuning

[Inceptic]

I was just wondering if anyone has tried reamping retuned riffs with Melodyne?



I only have one six string guitar (floyd-rose), and I keep it in standard tuning. Would this be a good solution for not having to retune/setup a guitar during production?

 

[ballstix]

I always edit guitars as DIs when possible but I'd be wary about using Melodyne in place of actual downtuning. For a quick demo, go for it, but no way would I do this on a real production. That said, if the intonation is out, then it's definitely advisable to do some "fix-it" tuning on the DI.

 

[Nimvi]

I tried it once to save a friend's detuned DI from being unusable, and it did work. However, I thought it made the track sound "glassy" in a weird way. Can't really describe it better. And that weird sound was enhanced by the distortion of the amp too.

So altough it has the potential to be a sessionsaviour, I would not resort to it as a standard practice. Light amounts of correction on clean guitars are doable. Anything more than that probably becomes noticable.

 

[HCL]

I'll do minor pitch correction on DIs sometimes, if say I played a bar or two harder than normal and sent it sharp or the tuning slipped a few cents. I don't see why it wouldn't work on single notes but artificially tuning down your guitar would sound pretty bad.

 

[Inceptic]

Yeah. I thought as much. Just heard another video of Melodyne where they demonstrate "Tom Morello" tones...quite awful. I think I need to save up for a seven-string, or a baritone.