The main takeaway here is not to say trust your ears instead of your tuner, but to start to be more aware of the way your ears hear pitch and to start to improve your sensitivity to it. It’s not something you can learn overnight, and it’s not something you can “decide” to do better. Pitch is something you develop a sense for. Sometimes it’s easier to say “Well the tuner says it’s right, so it must be fine,” than it is to do the work of listening to the notes and getting them to actually sound correct together. Not “technically perfect” doesn’t mean not good. Just like we don’t want half-hearted or “close enough” visual designs, we don’t want half-hearted tuning and intonation either. (If they say it bothers them, they’re just trying to show off, and I for one am unimpressed.) This doesn’t mean we can be sloppy. It doesn’t “bother them” any more than you or I are bothered by a light that’s a little more blue or a little more orange. They don’t complain about things being out of “correct” tuning. But what about people with "perfect pitch"? People aren’t going through your music with a tuner, judging you everytime it doesn’t line up. As long as the music is in tune together, it doesn’t have to match a perfect reference pitch. Music is made for humans with ears, not robots with tuners. If it looks good to the eyes, it is good. Designs are made for your eyes, not for micrometers and rulers. No one is measuring your designs with a ruler. It doesn’t matter if all of the letters in a word are “technically” spaced equally apart, if it doesn’t look even, it’s wrong. It doesn’t matter if it’s “technically” correct, if it looks wrong, it is wrong. I spent two years in design school, and one of the biggest lessons I learned is: Similarly, when I’m tuning these vocals, I don’t shoot for what the software says is correct, I shoot for what sounds correct. Don’t always rely on what the tuner says, rely on whether it sounds good or not.ĭon’t look at your fingers to see correct intonation, use your ears! While working on this (and learning every step of the way,) this made me think of something I say a lot: Tune with your ears, not with your eyes. A capella vocals are even harder for me because since there are no instruments involved, there’s not a predefined tonal center or starting pitch to work toward. I’m fairly new to editing and mixing in general, but particularly with vocals. One of these tasks is to make sure all of the notes are in tune with each other. I’m currently in the middle of editing, tuning, and mixing some a capella vocal parts for some demo recordings of a trio that I sing in.
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