(magical jingle)
Well, hello everybody. I should preface this tutorial by saying, that I'm not much of
a singer. I'm more of a Photoshop guy, photographer, you know? Stuff like that.
But here, today, in Audition, we are going to attempt to take a vocal track that
I have laid down. If I can even begin to use a term like that. We're going to learn
about auto-tune in Audition; because I need some auto-tune. And it's not even
good auto-tune. But, it's auto-tune in Audition, and this is how you use it. If you
enjoy this video, make sure you go ahead and subscribe to my channel, so you
never miss any Audition tutorials in the future; because we're doing Audition
tutorials these days. Let's go ahead and jump into Audition and take a look at
what we got. And what we can get.
[♪ light guitar and singing ♪]
Alrighty, ladies and gents, we're here in Adobe Audition. And we're going to take
a look at the good, ol' auto-tuning functionality that we have in Audition.
This is the automatic pitch correction here under Effects>Time and Pitch>
Automatic Pitch Correction. It's been here since, I believe, it was Audition CS6.
So if you have any newer copy of Audition, you're going to have this effect.
Now, some of the pitch corrections, like manual pitch correction, pitch bender
stretch and pitch - those are process effects. Which means that we would have
to double click into our vocal track - which is this track - in order to apply them.
However, I'm going to go back to my multi-track view. This is not that type of
effect. The auto pitch correction can be applied right to the effects rack. This
area right over here. So we don't even need to go into the audio clip itself to
apply our automatic pitch correction. Now, before I apply this, I should just
play for you a brief portion of the vocals. This is just karaoke track of Jason
Mraz's "I'm Yours" song, and I did, sort of, my little take of YouTube adpocalypse
song, is what I'm calling it, to the tune for "I'm Yours" by Jason Mraz.
So I'll bring it out here to like here, and let's see what we got.
[♪ light guitar and singing ♪]
That's enough of that. Let's go ahead and apply some auto-tune and see what
we can do. So I'm going to come up here to effects, I'm going to come time and
pitch, and I'm going to go automatic pitch correction. And you can see, it's dropped
onto our effects rack over here. And there's a few different presets. They're kind of
limited in terms of what you got. But I do believe that "I'm Yours" by Jason Mraz is
in C major. I know a little bit about music, but I'm not that good with it. I've played
guitar for a few years. But I'm pretty sure that "I'm Yours" is C major. So I'm going
to try to auto-tune my voice to the C major. And what I can do here, is I can move
my playhead, and I can begin playing through this. And this little, up and down,
bouncing bar is going to kind of show me how much it's correcting.
[♪ light guitar and singing ♪]
So it's doing a little bit. I want this to be really extreme though, because maybe I'm
not really doing it for myself at this point. I'm doing it to show you guys just how
extreme this can be. So I'm going to crank the attack and sensitivity all the way up.
This is going to start to give us more of that pop/hip hop, over-modulated vocal
sound that you hear in a lot of songs these days. Let's check it out.
[♪ light guitar and auto-tuned singing ♪]
So, you can hear that. But in C major, it kind of sounds really bad. It sounds like
I'm flattening off the top of a lot of the vocal coming through. And the track without
auto-tune sounds bad enough. [♪ light guitar and singing ♪]
Right? I'm just - I'm really trying too hard to sing, it just doesn't sound very good.
But it arguably sounds worse with the auto-tune, so what's going on here?
Well, in general, when you come in here to automatic pitch correction, you want
to play around with what's going on here. And I've found that going to B major
was actually better than C major.
[♪ light guitar and auto-tuned voice ♪]
It just kind of works with the track better. But, knowing that "I'm Yours" is in the
key of C, I knew I had to make some other adjustments. And the adjustment
that I made was down here to calibration A4. So, calibration A4, basically, not to
get too technical here, but it specifies the tuning standard for the source audio.
The stuff that we got here in the vocal track. In most music in the western side of
the world, the standard is A4 at 440hz, which is exactly where Audition has placed
me. Sometimes, however, the source audio has been fouled up. Not really fouled
up, but just like, in my case, probably fouled up because of my vocals, right? I'm not
a very talented vocalist. So, it's almost as if it's been recorded to a different standard,
if you will. And you can specify different A4 values from 410 to 470. So, leaving this
in the major scale, in the key of C, I can reduce this to 410. And we will get and entirely
different sounding effect. In fact, it sounds pretty decent. [brief music]
Well, we've heard that line. Let's go to the next line here.
[♪ light guitar and auto-tuned singing ♪]
And that line where I say "relax," it's really kind of brutal. Let's shut off auto-tune
and listen to what it sounds like without that fixing.
[♪ light guitar and singing ♪] Kind of rough, and if I turn it on, it just smooths
everything right out. [brief auto-tuned singing] And of course, it has the over
modulated-ness because we've cranked up the attack and the sensitivity way
beyond where they should go. But I think, for now, we've done what we can do
with the automatic pitch correction, we'll close this. The effect is still there on our
rack, and let's just - we'll add a little bit more to this. We'll go up to effects, and we
will go reverb, and we'll throw some studio reverb on this. And I'm just going to
use the vocal reverb, large room effect. This is going to really just add a little
boominess to the effect, and just really help complete this. And make me sound
like I have some level of competence when it comes to vocal skills. But don't get
ahead of yourselves, it's still pretty bad.
[♪ light guitar and auto-tuned singing ♪]
So, there you go. A little automatic pitch correction, a little studio reverb on top
of it. And the auto-tuning tools in Audition? They're okay. I mean, it's not incredibly
high end, and top shelf. But it really - you can really, really do a lot with them. And
it's something that, maybe I'm saying that, because I haven't spent an incredibly
massive amount of time mastering, and you know, lining up and laying down
track after track after track. But there's a lot you can do with it. And oh, by the way,
You've got even more power at your disposal, if you go the manual pitch corrector.
Which is, again, a process effect, so it has to be done in the clip itself. But there's
a ton you can do with that in terms of controlling exactly what parts of your vocal
track go up or down, or get shifted this way or that way, to really go in and match
with the music that you're playing. So, we're going to head out of this tutorial, and
at the very end, you can check out this full verse, if you're interested in sticking around
and checking it out. But that, ladies and gentlemen, is how you mess around and
play with auto-tuning in Adobe Audition. So, yeah, there you have it. I mean, it is what
it is. I think it helps a lot. It's crazy, a little tweaking here and there, and adjusting,
and you can really clean something up and make it sound presentable. And the
reverb, of course, that kind of helps almost everything. You don't want to go
overboard like I did. But you know what I'm saying. A little reverb can help here
and there, and if you actually have some voice talent, I'm sure your recording
sounds incredible! Again, if you enjoyed this video, make sure you go ahead and
subscribe to the channel, so you never miss any tutorials in the future. Follow me
over on Instagram @tutvid. And, oh, stay tuned for the end of this video, I'll play
the whole, little YouTube adpocalypse sound/recording/effect thing that I did.
So, for toying around with really just the automatic pitch correction, auto-tuning
functionality here in Adobe Audition today. Ladies and gentlemen, that's it!
Get it? Got it? Good!
Nathaniel Dodson, tutvid.com, I'll catch you in the next one!
[♪ light guitar and auto-tuned singing ♪]