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Smiley Smile Stuff / General On Topic Discussions / Re: Is it fair to call for an artist to quit?
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on: December 09, 2021, 06:40:34 AM
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I recently attended two small gigs headlined by a popular, contemporary musician. We talked at both shows, and it sort of took me aback when he looked to me for validation on the most recent show being the better of the two. Like, we have a grammy-award winning musician, whose every album has been critically acclaimed, and he was looking to me, some random dude to validate his performance?
(I enjoyed the first show more, but that's not a knock against the 2nd! Both were fun)
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Smiley Smile Stuff / General On Topic Discussions / Re: Brian Wilson - 2021/2022 Tour Thread
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on: October 24, 2021, 07:31:30 AM
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I was pleasantly surprised by Brian's performance last night in Waukegan. I've been to a few shows these past 5 years and they were rough, Brian slurring words, strange timing and delivery of lines, missing words where Al would have to jump in, coughing into the microphone, etc. There was none of that last night, Brian sounded great throughout.
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Smiley Smile Stuff / General On Topic Discussions / Re: Bruce falsettos
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on: August 13, 2021, 09:48:08 PM
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As for now, I don't know how his falsetto is right now on the road. Last I saw them was the 2018 Christmas tour, and Bruce was still hitting the FFF line out of the park with ease...credit where it's due!
I was surprised to hear him do it tonight, it still sounds good!
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Smiley Smile Stuff / General On Topic Discussions / Re: Brian Wilson - 2021/2022 Tour Thread
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on: July 20, 2021, 10:57:08 AM
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Supposedly "SURFSUP" is the pre-sale password for all shows, starting today at 10:00am "local time." Well, the Mrs. and I have been trying for Waukegan since 10:00am our local time to no avail. Last I saw, it's definitely past 10:00am local time in that bustling metropolis of Waukegan.
Yeah, I was struggling with that show as well for a couple hours. It's live now though.
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Smiley Smile Stuff / General On Topic Discussions / Re: Auto Tuning / personnel
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on: November 20, 2020, 07:36:08 PM
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He's nowhere in the credits for Knebworth and wouldn't have been involved anyway at that time. I may be misremembering it, and please correct if so, but I think the pitch correction on Knebworth was applied at the request of certain band members or involved parties after hearing the raw tapes. I also think it may have gone against the wishes of others involved, but again that's for another discussion if that memory is accurate.
As far as BB '85, they were going for a current hit record sound which is why they brought in Steve Levine, who is a top-notch producer and did what he was hired to do on that album. Steve could speak to more of what he did (and has spoken highly of working with Brian on the record but not as highly about the band as a whole) with the mixing and recording. But in 1984, if it was a use of pitch correction that was audible, it could have been as simple a patch-in as an Eventide Harmonizer which would digitally generate a harmony or doubled note on top of the original note (the Eventide was literally everywhere in the 80's), or as in-depth as sampling vocal notes into whatever early samplers they had available and pitching each sampled note digitally.
Keep in mind both the Eventide and those early samplers were used as aesthetic, sonic effects as much as trying to correct something and sound natural. Those sounds were on hit records in 1984-85 and labels would ask producers and engineers to use them to make songs sound like hit records.
Agreed, whatever effects the Eventide and samplers added in the 80s to BBs material sound good to my ears. Autotune is as dreadful as it gets, and once you hear it, and can recognize it, it's impossible to unhear it. I obviously don't listen to a lot of music that has autotune. At the risk of being revealed as a complete recording neophyte, can you tell me what autotune sounds like? Or point me in the direction of one recording that has been autotuned and one that has not? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8cwgU-TIwNU&list=PLnG-ujX3czmVh9i4aBRE1grwgHGhUc73FListen to Mike's vocals, he sounds like he's part Speak And Spell. Here's a live recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MBFOuzhubFQNo speak and spell quality
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