Aug 19, 2008 12:45 am Ah, you say that now. But you never know. She may open her mouth, and the rest of the world may go, "Oh dear GOD!"
Nah, just kidding. I'm sure she will be great.
I may have just save the world from...
Posted on Aug 19, 2008 12:31 am
BeerHunter
www.TheLondonProject.ca
Member Since: Feb 07, 2005
...an Autotuned Liona Boyd. Turns out she stumbled upon my blog and was enquiring about Autotune and other pitch correction options. She is well known for her playing but this will be the first time she will be singing live (at age of 59). Anyways, I would never want to hear her vocal Autotuned. Anyhow, I hope I gave her good advice.
Liona Boyd has been a huge inspiration on me. Our song "I Know She Understands" is very much in her style.
For those that have not heard of her, here is a YouTube video. Haha, Super Dave is pretty cool too!
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Aug 19, 2008 12:45 am Ah, you say that now. But you never know. She may open her mouth, and the rest of the world may go, "Oh dear GOD!"
Nah, just kidding. I'm sure she will be great.
Aug 19, 2008 10:15 am Ya she is very talented and has won many awards including..
Five-time winner of the Juno Award for Instrumental Artist of the Year
Guitar Player Magazine's Gallery of the Greats
Five-time winner of the Guitar Player Magazine's Classical Guitarist of the Year
The Order of Canada
The Order of Ontario
Vanier Award
Women Who Make a Difference
Artist of the Year, and Honorary Mayor of San Antonio, Texas
Four Honorary Doctorate of Law degrees
One Honorary Doctorate of Music degree
Prix "Esprit du Ciècle"
She has also done collabs with...
Yo Yo Ma
Eric Clapton
Chet Atkins
David Gilmore ( Pink Floyd)
Georges Zamfir
Gordon Lightfoot
Sir Andrew Davis
Al Di Meola
Steve Morse
Strunz and Farah
Jesse Cook
Pavlo
Johannes Linstead
Innis
Oscar Lopez
Ron Korb
Paul Anka
The Canadian Brass
Tracy Chapman
Michael Kamen
... it was really cool to have been able to speak with her after being a fan for so long.
Aug 19, 2008 10:55 am Autotune (for the sake of autotune) is the work of the devil. It's eee-vil I tell you.
I don't really care about the "T-Pain" (or whoever he is) crowd that want to make their recordings sound like Cher... Heck, back in the 90's, I used a tunable harmonizer to save a recording or two myself (the vocalist was in from NY - Had him for two days - He had a cold... Not a pretty situation).
But this current overuse/abuse of autotune just grinds on my nerves...
Aug 19, 2008 10:56 am Yeah, well people also said digital was the devil back in the day...everything in it's place.
Aug 19, 2008 11:23 am I think it has it's place. Mostly as an effect in pop and hip hop but Liona Boyd?? No. Her performances are way to intimate to have the robotic sound of Autotune.
Aug 19, 2008 09:01 pm I'll take it up for both sides here. Autotune does have its place, when used properly and moderately for actually fixing a sour note or two. I have to also agree with Massive on the fact it is now being overused to an extreme by some genre's and it is creeping into a few I never thought I would here using it as an effect like that.
My sound twisting side really does like the effect, but it also has taken away from an even more over used effect at one time. The vocoder! These days many newbies mistake the original vocoder sound for an over tweaked autotuner and can't even tell the difference from one to the other.
While I will say there are some artist's that used the effect well placed, there are now too many doing it. Is it out of desire to use it or do they really have to cover it up that much.
OK, end of rant.
Aug 19, 2008 09:02 pm Oh ya, good call on that as well BH. Not saying she might not need to use it a bit, but you never know. My guess is if she sings like she plays then it will all be good. And yes, I'm very familiar with her and have seen her a few times.
Aug 19, 2008 10:38 pm I think she is just a bit nervous. She may feel her singing has to be as good or better than her playing. That is pretty tough to live up to.
I would love to see her do a duet with Shari Ulrich.
Aug 20, 2008 12:15 am She may feel her singing has to be as good or better than her playing.
People can be quite forgiving. She has given the world so much that even if her voice wouldn't be perfect it will still be enjoyed because she is Liona Boyd!
Aug 20, 2008 12:22 am Quote:
People can be quite forgiving. She has given the world so much that even if her voice wouldn't be perfect it will still be enjoyed because she is Liona Boyd!
That is exactly what I was thinking and why I wouldn't do anything to mess with her voice.
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