Friday, 16 September 2011

What are the machines called that changes your voice when you sing so it sounds good?

Uno those things that proffesional singers use to make there voices sound better, how much are they and were would you get them from!!
What are the machines called that changes your voice when you sing so it sounds good?
Do you mean live or recording?



I don't know if you can do that live, maybe you could with a voice pedal or something, I wouldn't know how.



If you mean recording, you can change someone's vocals around and add effects on pretty much any music based program on the computer.



Examples would be:



FL Studios

Sony Acid Music Studio

Sony Acid Pro

Sibelius I think, though that might be more for creating your own music and not so much editing vocals



There's more I just can't remember them now. Google for the ones above and some more and I'm sure you could find some :]



I imagine you could get any of this stuff from a good music shop that includes computer programs and microphones/vocal stuff
What are the machines called that changes your voice when you sing so it sounds good?
Actually I thought it was just a really expensive computer program, because that's all my brother and his friend use.
There are a number of different pieces of software you can use to edit audio so that it sounds better. The most popular at the moment is Pro Tools, but I'm also a big fan of Logic. If you want a decent free one, Audacity is FOS (Free and Open Source) but lacks in the number of functions that the others have to offer, and is not as user friendly as others.



It's important to know that the use of these programs to make yourself sound %26quot;better%26quot; is a) mostly a matter of opinion of whether it is in fact good, and b) doesn't help you in a live show. The trained ear can hear the instant a fake voice comes on the radio, and I'm one of those who turns the channel immediately. I don't want to hear a computer sing for you, I WANT TO HEAR YOU SING.



There is a reason most pop stars sound a like, and that is because they run their voice through so many filters and fixes that it flattens the whole track and makes it sound like a robot sang the whole thing.



So really, there is no machine that makes your voice sound better. There are computer programs that have filters for audio files that let you fix various things that can be wrong with a track, but you sacrifice the quality of the audio and (yeah, I'll say it) a little bit of your dignity.



Training your voice is something that takes years of practice to learn how your own voice works, and then learning how to make it do what you want. Fixing it with Pro Tools is cheating, pure and simple, and the minute you step in front of an audience and it's not a recording, you're sunk. Unless you want to spend a couple thousand dollars on equipment, you can't come close to reproducing the sound live, unless you lip sync *COUGH* ashlee simpson *COUGH*.



Save your money, learn how to sing the old fashion way.