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X-Factor admits auto-tuning contestants
By CMU Editorial | Published on Tuesday 24 August 2010
After the first edition of the new series of ‘X-Factor’ on Saturday night, which was watched by a record 11.1 million idiots (who knew Great Britain was blessed with so many?), fans accused the show of applying Auto-tune software to some vocals, making the good sound better and the bad sound worse, something which the show seems to readily admit.
Look, here’s the statement they put out: “The judges make their decisions at the auditions stage based on what they hear on the day, live in the arena. The footage and sound is then edited and dubbed into a finished programme, to deliver the most entertaining experience possible for viewers. When it gets to the live shows, it will be all live”.
Interestingly, if you actually listen to the vocals that were edited on last weekend’s programme, the vocal tweaks were applied so heavy-handedly (distorting, rather than tuning), and seemingly at random, that you can’t help thinking someone involved in the show wanted people to notice. Either that, or they’ve got someone new in to do their sound editing, and s/he’s incredibly rubbish.
Either way, who cares? We should probably stop talking about it nueooosow (that’s “now” Auto-tuned by an X-Factor sound engineer, in case you wondered).
