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Watch Pitch Perfect 2 Online Mic' title='Watch Pitch Perfect 2 Online Mic' />Guitar Player magazine is the complete acoustic and electric guitar package. Featuring free online acoustic and electric guitar lessons, tutorials and videos for both. The first Lane Kiffin was head coach at USC when some of his own autographed items were sent back to him. It had a little something to do with him leaving for the Trojans just 1. Knoxville. A Tennessee fan mailed me things I signed for him because they said they dont want this trash in their house, he said, so they mailed it back to me. Ruined. The second story ocurred while Kiffin was the offensive coordinator at Alabama. Watch Ida Tube Free. He told Dinich that a Crimson Tide fan asked him to sign a picture of the famous Rocky Block play from 2. Alabamas 1. 2 1. Tennessee, where Kiffin was the head coach at the time Kiffin was Alabamas offensive coordinator when he was handed the picture to sign. She asked me to sign it with Roll Tide on it, Kiffin said, sounding still incredulous at the request. I said, Ill sign it, but I dont think I can really write Roll Tide on this picture. Wrecked. ESPN. Seduced by perfect pitch how Auto Tune conquered pop music. Somebody once wrote on an online message board that the guy who created Auto Tune must hate music. Watch Batman: Year One Download. That could not be further from the truth. Its creator, Dr. Andy Hildebrand, AKA Dr. Andy, is a classically trained flautist who spent most of his youth playing professionally, in orchestras. Despite the fact that the 6. He never listened to rock music of his generation. I was too busy practicing, he says. It warped me. The only post Debussy artist hes ever gotten into is Patsy Cline. Hildebrands company Antares nestled in an anonymous looking office park in the mountains between Silicon Valley and the Pacific Coast, has only ten employees. Hildebrand invents all the products Antares recently came out with Auto Tune for Guitar. His wife is the CFO. Hildebrand started his career as a geophysicist, programming digital signal processing software which helped oil companies find drilling spots. After going back to school for music composition at age 4. Auto Tune, and Antares, were born. Watch Diamond Factory, Anthrax Investigation, Auto Tune, Luis. PBS. See more from NOVA science. NOW. Auto Tune isnt the only pitch correction software, of course. Its closest competitor, Melodyne, is reputed to be more natural sounding. But Auto Tune is, in the words of one producer, the go to if you just want to set it and forget it. In interviews, Hildebrand handles the question of is Auto Tune evil with characteristic dry wit. His stock answer is, My wife wears makeup, does that make her evil But on the day I asked him, he answered, I just make the car. I dont drive it down the wrong side of the road. I just make the car. I dont drive it down the wrong side of the road. The T Pains and Chers of the world are the crazy drivers, in Hildebrands analogy. The artists that tune with subtlety are like his wife, tasteful people looking to put their best foot forward. Another way you could answer the question recorded music is, by definition, artificial. The band is not singing live in your living room. Microphones project sound. Mixing, overdubbing, and multi tracking allow instruments and voices to be recorded, edited, and manipulated separately. There are multitudes of effects, like compression, which brings down loud sounds and amplifies quiet ones, so you can hear an artist taking a breath in between words. Reverb and delay create echo effects, which can make vocals sound fuller and rounder. When recording went from tape to digital, there were even more opportunities for effects and manipulation, and Auto Tune is just one of many of the new tools available. Nonetheless, there are some who feel its a different thing. At best, unnecessary. At worst, pernicious. The thing is, reverb and delay always existed in the real world, by placing the artist in unique environments, so those effects are just mimicking reality, says Larry Crane, the editor of music recording magazine, Tape Op, and a producer whos recorded Elliott Smith and The Decemberists. If you sang in a cave, or some other really echo y chamber, youd sound like early Elvis, too. There is nothing in the natural world that Auto Tune is mimicking, therefore any use of it should be carefully considered. Id rather just turn the reverb up on the Fender Twin in the troubling place, says Arizona indie rock pioneer Howe Gelb, of the band Giant Sand. He describes Auto Tune and other correction plug ins as foul in a way he cant quite put his finger on. Theres something embedded in the track that tends to push my ear away. Lee Alexander, one time boyfriend of Norah Jones and bass player and producer for her country side project, The Little Willies, used no Auto Tune on their two records, and says he doesnt even own the program. Stuff is out of tune everywherethat to me is the beauty of music, he wrote in an email. In 2. 00. 0, Matt Kadane of the band The New Year, and his brother, Bubba covered Chers Believe, complete with Auto Tune. They did it in their former Texas Slo Core band, Bedhead. Kadane told me hated the original Believe, and had to be talked into covering it, but had surprisingly found that putting Auto Tune on his vocals added emotional weight. He hasnt, however, used Auto Tune since. Its one thing to make a statement with hollow, disaffected vocals, but its another if this is the way were communicating with each other, he says. For some people, I said, it seems that Auto Tune is a lot like dudes and fake boobs. Some dudes see fake boobs, they know theyre fake, but they get an erection anyway. They cant help themselves. Kadane agreed that it can serve that function. But at some point youd say thats fucked up that I have an erection from fake boobs he says. And in the midst of experiencing that, I think ideally you have a moment that reminds you that authenticity is still possible. And thank God not everything in the world is Auto Tuned.