I like to show pitch correctors a near pristine form of what I want corrected. My preference for vocal pitch correction is last or close to last, because I don’t want the pitch tracking to be affected by lowend gurgly random shit.

If your doing something completely wrong you’ll hear it. if you start cutting a frequency which falls on to a note for example. I would imagine that corrective EQ can cause autotune to function less efficiently if you have it pre. After a a high pass, compression autotune followed by corrective EQ. Then it all falls into correlation with your mix, what’s happening there.įor me it makes sense to have auto tune at the very end or in between if I’m trying to go for subtle. 200hz on a high voice sounds about right.

This for me tends to be a decision based on the track, on the downside, placing it first feels like it doesn’t work as smoothly in auto correction mode.Īs far as EQ goes it always depends on the content and what your aiming for. I feel like when I place auto tune first, more of the autotune artifacts become noticeable, specifically after compression. *Note: I make hip hop/trap and desire the Auto-Tune artefactsįor now imma go with what sounds best to my ears.Īny thoughts on the issue of where to place Auto-Tune? (By subpar I mean my vocals didn’t sound as musical they sounded tone-deaf, which is how I sound without Auto-Tune 😳😅🤣). I wonder if my results were subpar-when I tried the method he suggested-because of the specific Auto-Tune version I use. (There’s also the issue of compression sometimes restoring lower frequencies, therefore needs another “rumble cut”). I found resources online to back further back up this claim. He explained that Auto-Tune adds frequencies (or harmonics-I forget which, but I do agree) and that not cutting out the rumble below 200 can throw things outta whack because then Auto-Tune reacts to useless sonic info. (Note: I use Auto-Tune Access, the cheapest and most restricted version.) When I tried the suggested approach, I thought the Auto-Tune didn’t sound as good. He looked at my (general) vocal chain and said I should have EQ (cut up to 200) and compression BEFORE Auto-Tune. Recently I was speaking to an engineer who’s worked with some big names. Hi all - based on research online I was led to believe Auto-Tune should be at the top of the vocal chain, then other processes (subtractive EQ, compression, etc).

Hip hop autotune with uad anteres