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So the Mercy woman has been dropped due to 'Mental Health' reasons. Thank God for that, don't know why they put her through in the first place.
 
Johnnytoxic said:
Autotune or no autotune she still sounds great.
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After watching lots of stuff I'm now convinced this Autotune is the Emperors New Clothes saying for a lot of people when they hear somebody singing good.
I've watched her X-Factor performance over & over and can't hear this magic trickery.
I suppose what I would like to hear to be proven wrong, is the performance you linked to having Autotune put on her voice to bring all her wrong notes into tune because she does go flat all over the place.
I'd like to hear the before & after and hear how it sonically changes without your average punter knowing.
Back in the 70s I was accused of cheating because I put a tad of reverb and delay on my voice.
 
dmpoole said:
After watching lots of stuff I'm now convinced this Autotune is the Emperors New Clothes saying for a lot of people when they hear somebody singing good.
I've watched her X-Factor performance over & over and can't hear this magic trickery.
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Come on mate, switch it on, turn it up give it 10 seconds "I used to think maybe you loved me, now baby I'm sure", autotune is there from the start, but where she stretches suuure, it is set up so badly it literally wobbles between octaves. Two lines later "Now every time I go for the mailbox" it starts going haywire again. By the time she starts yelling "I just can't help myself" the bloody thing almost goes Kanye West on her four letters.

Btw, I hate the song just as any other guy repeatedly molested by radio clock blasting Katrina And The Waves at ungodly morning hours, but even I could tell that the lady completely forgot her lyrics and after three lines the performance was just ad hoc impro and slid into pure randomness, I believe one Yo Ma, was quoted there, something or rather "had to go", something about the door was thrown up in the air few times, before she used one line of the second verse and reverted back to random, unrelated lyrics. And then she stood there almost sobbing. Weird, it was, the whole thing.
 
This is from the statement saying sound filters will no longer be used.

"We do not use, and never have used, audio technology that would unfairly reflect any singer's original performance on The X Factor," a spokeswoman said.

"In line with standard television practice, sound processing filters are used to remove background noise on our pre-recorded shows."

This is a blatant lie. Anyone with any experience at all of audio processing knows that auto-tune and noise removal are totally different. Noise removal leaves no artefacts if done correctly. You might lose a bit of top end but that's it. If overused it can produce a strange warbling which sounds nothing like auto-tune.

So, they've decided to remove the noise removal filters??

They must think the public are idiots. Yep, X Factor producers think the public are idiots shocker!
 
dmpoole said:
After watching lots of stuff I'm now convinced this Autotune is the Emperors New Clothes saying for a lot of people when they hear somebody singing good.
I've watched her X-Factor performance over & over and can't hear this magic trickery.
I suppose what I would like to hear to be proven wrong, is the performance you linked to having Autotune put on her voice to bring all her wrong notes into tune because she does go flat all over the place.
I'd like to hear the before & after and hear how it sonically changes without your average punter knowing.
Back in the 70s I was accused of cheating because I put a tad of reverb and delay on my voice.
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You can hear the way her notes seem to jump up or down from one note to the next, unaturally quickly. Without it a natural voice would have a slightly more gradual transition up or down into the note.

What happens is as you would naturally begin raising or lowering your pitch to move to the next note, the auto-tune holds the note you were singing. Once the threshold goes past this pitch, it will then analyse the next note. Of course, for a fraction the voice is moving into the next note. This fraction as well is auto-tuned so that the next note is in tune fractionally before it should be. The human voice doesn't sing like that.

On Gamu Nhengu's audition it's as plain as a Bulgarian pin up.
 
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Do they just allow really **** acts through the screening process on purpose for entertainment purposes all the time now?
 
Don't see why people waste their time sitting in a place all day waiting to sing stupidly like this Jackson wannabe
 
I really enjoyed Saturdays X-Factor.

I think it's more to do with it having Katy Perry & Cheryl Cole on at the same time rather than anything else.

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French guys come over from Paris just to compete in X-Factor... surely they have X-Factor over there.
 
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