Scar Symmetry's Holographic Universe - Auto pitch anyone?

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Don't get me wrong, I love Scar Symmetry, but Christian's vocals almost sound TOO polished. In other words, I his vocals are fucking amazing. If he did that 100% naturally, OMG. Do you know if they use any type of pitch shifter/auto pitch thing for his high clean vocals? How common is something like that in Metal?
 
I don't hear the classic AutoTune monotone-one-copypasted-note-syndrome there, so I don't think they used it. He may be able to pull them off after many many tries (you can see it in their studio videos too), but he has a lot of trouble doing them live (check any youtube video).
 
weird. I saw them live a year ago and he was fucking perfect... the whole band was. They blew Katatonia right out of the water.
 
There is a lot of noticeable tuning going on in many songs. It's a mystery to me how people can't hear that.

There is always a difference between seeing a band live and seeing live videos. I've been to so many gigs where I thought "wow, he nailed the vocals", just to see the broadcast on TV later and think "WTF??!".

Not saying the guy in Scar Symmetry isn't a good singer, but they definitely tuned his vox.
 
smy1 said:
There is a lot of noticeable tuning going on in many songs. It's a mystery to me how people can't hear that.
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I have listened to the songs quite a bit, and it never struck me once that there is autotuning going at all, to be honest.
 
I saw Scar Symmetry last year and I bet my ass that Christian is using Auto tune on the record, I remember he had trouble nailing the vocals.

cheers
 
I was severely disappointed by HU in it's original tracklist/progression, but once you do a custom tracklisting for it:

01. Quantumleaper
02. Trapezoid
03. Holographic Universe
04. Prism and Gate
05. The Three-Dimensional Shadow
06. Fear Catalyst
07. Ghost Prototype I
08. Ghost Prototype II

Then the album becomes a lot better and actually a very nice album compared to the previous two.
 
Theres this megadeth song on united abominations, the obvious autotuning going on is horrendous.

I personally don't get autotune myself. I feel like a lot of times, studios are going to use it, just to polish things that would take forever to perfect. I used it on almost perfect vocals and it sounds pretty obvious, doesnt really blend. But I see a lot of other bands around my scene using it and it actually sounds pretty real. Who knows.
 
Torniojaws said:
I was severely disappointed by HU in it's original tracklist/progression, but once you do a custom tracklisting for it:

01. Quantumleaper
02. Trapezoid
03. Holographic Universe
04. Prism and Gate
05. The Three-Dimensional Shadow
06. Fear Catalyst
07. Ghost Prototype I
08. Ghost Prototype II

Then the album becomes a lot better and actually a very nice album compared to the previous two.
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Wow dude, the order tracks are in actually affects how much you enjoy them? o_O I usually listen to albums with the individual songs randomized (unless it's a concept album or where one song flows into another, but sometimes even with those too if I know 'em really well), cuz I feel it keeps it a bit more fresh, though there are certainly many that I like to listen to start to finish as well.
 
Metaltastic said:
Wow dude, the order tracks are in actually affects how much you enjoy them? o_O I usually listen to albums with the individual songs randomized (unless it's a concept album or where one song flows into another, but sometimes even with those too if I know 'em really well), cuz I feel it keeps it a bit more fresh, though there are certainly many that I like to listen to start to finish as well.
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Yeah, I really like albums as an entirety, not a compilation of songs scattered here and there. I always listen to full albums when I listen to music :)
 
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