aidophiles / sound people

**moving-target** · 03-05-14, 05:00 PM

can you run an existing song thru autotune ? i found this song i like but theres 2 versions the original and a autotune sounding version cant post the autotune like version in public cause its inside of an R rated trailer

**AetheLove** · 03-06-14, 09:20 AM

You can run any audio file through an auto-tune processor. I have no idea what would come out the other side.

From your description it sounds like they auto-tuned the vocal track and then mixed the song. If you wanted to replicate that you'd have to have a separate vocal track; and that's just in theory. As a practical matter it falls somewhere between difficult and impossible to replicate a mix without having everything that went into the original mix, including the engineer.

Are you sure you can't find the version you want online somewhere?

Cheers,

AetheLove

**rush2049** · 03-06-14, 01:06 PM

If you really really know what you're doing. And want to devote hundreds if not thousands of hours to it. You can extract the vocals from a song in an almost perfect way. Then you end up with two tracks: vocals and track-minus-vocals. Auto tune the vocals, again this can be very time consuming depending on how accurate the singer is and how automated your tools are. Then mix them back together while trying to replicate the mix you started with.

Listening to the song above: the song isn't too busy so extraction of vocals is.... easier...... but not anywhere close to saying it is easy.

Again like AetheLove said, if you have the original tracks used to record the song then auto-tuning isn't so difficult and could be done in a few days, but then you have to mix everything together the same way the final song did... a few more days....