The Beautiful Tattooed Underground Superlegend Kendra Demos The Electro-Harmonix V256 Vocoder

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3mIvofWF4Do This is one of the stranger official product demos we’ve seen in a while. And strange is good. First, the beautiful tattooed underground superlegend Kendra demos the Electro-Harmonix V256 Vocoder by doing her best T-Pain. After a little technical background and some gender-bending discussion, Rick sings the Electro-Harmonix V256 Vocoder song. Later, Rick demos… Read More The Beautiful Tattooed Underground Superlegend Kendra Demos The Electro-Harmonix V256 Vocoder

In Praise Of Auto-Tune

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_GBoqPDtmDw Frieze Magazine has published a article that takes a contrarian look at the musicality of Auto-Tune. Author Jace Clayton first recognizes the fact that many musicians hate AutoTuned vocals: Vocal purists hate Auto-Tune. They hear in its robotic modulations some combination of sugar-rush novelty, bulldozed nuance, jejune synthetics, loss of ‘soul’, disdain for innate… Read More In Praise Of Auto-Tune