Here’s the first of what I imagine will be a series of posts about process.
1. Grab Tom Woodward’s remix, import into Audacity, and trim the three seconds from the end that I wanted.
2. Slow down Gardner’s rapid fire delivery with the change tempo effect. Since I want it to be longer, the tempo change is -25%
3. I find autotune sounds better on higher frequencies. Have you ever heard Barry White autotuned? So, I used the Change pitch effect to raise the pitch by 4 semitones.
4. Finally I applied the GSnap plugin to do the autotuning. There is also autotalent, which is open source, and has a Windows version, but the controls are more detailed, it was already nearly midnight, and I was too tired to spend an hour or two experimenting. I chose very extreme settings with lots of vibrato (72 cents and 7.2 Hz- that’s warbling more than a half step more than seven times a second) and lots of pitch bend.
2 comments
Comments feed for this article
15 January, 2011 at 12:50 am
Jim
What you need to do is autotune the entire audio Tom put out, that would be brilliant! And then we should put it to images. I’ll work on this with you, could be a blast.
“Autotune the Campbell”
19 January, 2011 at 8:22 am
Gardner
Very cool–many thanks. My first autotuning! Now, can you make me go “whoop-whoop” the way Carl Sagan does in “Glorious Dawn” (“Symphony of Science”)? That would be truly amazing. 😉