Question For Recording Artists, Producers and Audio Engineers (AutoTune and Melodyne)

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Champagne Papi

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[h=2]Question about Recording Vocals[/h]
I'm a beginner recording artist and I'm working with an producer/audio engineer full time. (he's a beginner too). I have a full home recording studio. A MacBook, a full MIDI Keyboard, Maschine Controller etc....

The DAW that we're using at the moment is GarageBand, and when I record my vocals when I sing I use Antares. I'm trying to get the "heavy" auto-tune effect like Travi$ Scott, NAV, Post Malone and artists like them. But When I use Antares (latest update) after recording my vocals It gives me the T-Pain effect. My singing voice is okay it's bad at all, my producer actually said that I already have an "autotuned" voice.
Any Plugins I should get to get that Sound? Melodyne, any "Waves" Plugins?
I know NAV, Travi$ Scott and Desiigner can't really sing but they still sound great with autotune. I've seen people have a worse singing voice than I do and they get that effect. I don't think it's me, I think we're missing something, plugins, softwares etc...


Here's the effect We're trying to get:



Link 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmFm9Yp80dE


Link 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EivJ5hpQzms



Link 3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KnZ8h3MRuYg



Link 4: https://www.youtube.com/results?sear...y=nav+some+way



Link 5: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jrM8RbpCo8g


Link 6: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PNbC6i6Uh4o



Link 7: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9zdLh_QTRns


This is what NAV and Travi$ sound like without autotune:


NAV: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F0qec0rzIuA




Travi$: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xXNbt0yCfLQ​
 
If you use logic instead of garage band, Logic has a vocal tuner called flex pitch. Now when you tune your vocals, u must know a bit of music theory. If you want to do this correctly, you must first figure out the key of your track (in the relative major scale is suggested). Say for example your track is in E major which has 4 sharps in it which is F, C, G, D. So the note in E major are E, F#, G#, A, B, C#, D#. Now once you know the key of your song, you can search up all the notes in that key which would only be 7 different notes. Knowing this, you must tune your vocals to these notes. After you finish tuning with either flex pitch or melodyne, to get that auto tune sound, you must remove most of the vibrato in your voice. That auto tune / robotic sound is made because the vibrato is missing.

Its a long process but if you want it done properly then you have to do that. Hope that helps
 
It did Thank you. So If I use Melodyne with Antares auto-tune ( I have the latest version of Autotune) with bunch of other plugins like reverb, delay, Antares Harmony etc... I will sound like this artist? - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jrM8RbpCo8g
I know I'm not going to sound exactly like him because every voice is unique and different, I just want to get the same effect. My voice does change when recording my vocals, it cracks sometimes, but the producer does polish it a bit to make it sound smooth
 
The only artist you should focus on sounding like is you. What works for and/or on the artists you want to emulate will not produce the result you desire as those specific results are a matter of tweaking.
 
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