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Post by Mr. Sifter on Oct 9, 2011 17:45:48 GMT -5
I'm a bit tired right now, so maybe I'm not making sense...
I like all the song's but come on...What's up with Noels voice, I thought I had traveled back to the 90's and was listening to a fuckin' Cher album. Not really a fan of the sound of this one, a bit to over polished and "pop" for me, but I'm sure i'll get used to it.
Discuss this while I get to sleep, or don't... I don't care... Do whatever you want!
G'night and god bless the jesus freaks!
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Post by leak4ever on Oct 9, 2011 17:47:12 GMT -5
Only the press said that
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Post by thedon on Oct 9, 2011 17:47:57 GMT -5
It is very shiny. Perhaps overly so in places.
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Post by ianoel230982 on Oct 9, 2011 18:02:53 GMT -5
i agree very over produced, especially record machine. sounds like pop music in some places, and he has an obvious auto tuner on his voice. i prefer a more natural sound, you can't win em all though.
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Post by shoes222 on Oct 9, 2011 19:20:26 GMT -5
The melodies are there and they're fantastic... but the arrangements are fucking weird...
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Post by Cast on Oct 9, 2011 19:21:42 GMT -5
The melodies are there and they're fantastic... but the arrangements are fucking weird... good luck with the AA album then  |
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Post by SunshineLullaby on Oct 9, 2011 19:24:09 GMT -5
I like a lot of stuff that people consider overproduced.
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Post by crash on Oct 9, 2011 19:26:37 GMT -5
I love that it's so polished. Sure it's had the kitchen sink thrown at it, but it's that classic Spectorish wall of sound. Unlike BHN which sounded like 3 Led Zeppelin albums playing at once through a walkman with the bass turned off.
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Post by thefadedline on Oct 9, 2011 19:55:00 GMT -5
You're spot on. The vocals are so THERE in the mix. Absolutely no dynamics at all. It does sound a bit over-done. Definitely more produced than anything Oasis ever did.
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Post by betobeto on Oct 9, 2011 19:58:25 GMT -5
i agree very over produced, especially record machine. sounds like pop music in some places, and he has an obvious auto tuner on his voice. i prefer a more natural sound, you can't win em all though. i can't hear any auto-tune on the songs, its the typical phil spector's wall of sound.. no auto-tune |
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Post by thefadedline on Oct 9, 2011 20:01:13 GMT -5
Yeah, don't think there's any auto-tune on there. Think he's just 'singing' a bit more.
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Post by Beady’s Here Now on Oct 9, 2011 20:05:23 GMT -5
I'm only up to WAL (fucking love the fact I still have new songs to come!), but the only song that suffers from the BHN effect is Dream On. Why the hell he decided to repeat the same phrase over and over again for the outro is beyond me. This isn't 1997's IGBM! (That being said, DO is good, but I was expecting better. Underwhelmed on that one)
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Post by youandmegirl on Oct 9, 2011 20:07:33 GMT -5
i agree very over produced, especially record machine. sounds like pop music in some places, and he has an obvious auto tuner on his voice. i prefer a more natural sound, you can't win em all though. i can't hear any auto-tune on the songs, its the typical phil spector's wall of sound.. no auto-tune I do. That bit where he goes "wahhh waahhh" in "stop the clocks". that's some Kanye West bullshit that I don't condone in any limited fashion. Fuck this, fuck that song for including that bit. |
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Post by shoes222 on Oct 9, 2011 20:09:55 GMT -5
Yeah, don't think there's any auto-tune on there. Think he's just 'singing' a bit more. I dunno... Noel's voice definitely sounds a lot more 'processed' on this than it ever has on any other album. Don't the vocals on these songs sound a bit different than any of Noel's other songs in the past? |
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Post by Velo on Oct 9, 2011 20:22:01 GMT -5
They do sound processed, for sure. Especially when you compare them to Noel's acoustic stuff lately...I wonder how he'll sound on tour.
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Post by Cast on Oct 9, 2011 20:23:39 GMT -5
its the type of reverb they used for some of the tracks.
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Post by bert on Oct 9, 2011 20:24:14 GMT -5
i like it, but i think there's to much production... but, it's great, so, i don't mind
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Post by gdforever on Oct 9, 2011 21:18:39 GMT -5
His voice does sound a bit different...but I'm not hearing the autotune. There are effects on them...but far less so that on the DGSS which I found annoying.
The thing that I noticed about his voice was actually that it sounds a bit different in texture. Not raspy...but a bit...i don't know rougher? Listen to verses of Broken Arrow...can you hear what I mean? EOTR too.
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Post by Capering Klown on Oct 9, 2011 21:24:37 GMT -5
Glad I'm not the only one who feels this way. Hard to get used to Noel's voice being produced this way.
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Post by Silence Dogood on Oct 9, 2011 21:25:05 GMT -5
it IS a pop album. Nothing wrong with that. a good dose of auto-tune but again, it's a pop album.
i like the strings and i love EOTR, i like a couple of other songs on there. I hate WAL and there's a few that are not my cup of tea.
It's a folksy Pop album, not a rock album. We knew this is what we were getting the minute he mentioned wanting to do a solo project.
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Post by thefadedline on Oct 9, 2011 21:33:41 GMT -5
There's a massive deal of compression on his vocal track. That alone can change the way a vocal recording sounds. It changes the "texture" of the sound. It's like distorting a guitar I suppose. I don't think he would ever condone auto-tune on one of his songs.
Also remember what we're hearing is a low-quality rip of a very compressed/limited album. Albums are mixed differently these days. Every single sound is made to be as loud as possible and it just kills the sound completely.
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Post by SunshineLullaby on Oct 9, 2011 22:26:07 GMT -5
As far as pitch correction, it's nothing new for Noel. I'm pretty sure it's on Waiting For The Rapture, for example. You can hear it when he slides down (i.e. waiting FORRR-rrrrr). I didn't work on the album, obviously, so I can't know for sure, but I know what pitch correction sounds like from occasionally using it on my own recordings. I'm fairly certain it's all over the High Flying Birds album.
That being said, the songs are all amazing and he gives great vocal performances. So I don't care that much.
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Post by Silence Dogood on Oct 9, 2011 22:33:52 GMT -5
As far as pitch correction, it's nothing new for Noel. I'm pretty sure it's on Waiting For The Rapture, for example. You can hear it when he slides down (i.e. waiting FORRR-rrrrr). I didn't work on the album, obviously, so I can't know for sure, but I know what pitch correction sounds like from occasionally using it on my own recordings. I'm fairly certain it's all over the High Flying Birds album. That being said, the songs are all amazing and he gives great vocal performances. So I don't care that much. 100% agreed. in the end he did a great job, could it sound better with Liam's vocals(on some of the songs)? sure, but that's not what's being discussed here. |
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Post by somedaysoon on Oct 9, 2011 22:41:05 GMT -5
The "So long but baby bye bye" line in (Stranded On) The Wrong Beach is probably the most obvious use of auto-tune. It's more for effect than pitch correction, but it still a bit odd sounding for Noel. The backing vocals of EOTR are probably the most "annoying" instance of auto-tune. It's borderline Nickelback-esque to be honest. Fortunately, the chorus saves it.
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Post by Headmaster on Oct 9, 2011 23:22:10 GMT -5
I'm finding some of the songs to be a little overproduced too.
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