5 VOCAL TUNING MISTAKES (How to Use Melodyne) 

Great video, thanks a lot! One tip for the melisma note in bar 47: if you split the note into even more chunks, it is much easier to get the melisma under control and tune even the slightest bits. Keep up the good work!

Even if we wanted to pitch correct any vocal there's still a limit, and that limit is set by the performance, so the singer still needs to do his/her best and the end result will sound the best too (less mistakes to fix = better sound).

There is so much to learn with Melodyne, never even heard the word melisma before. Thanks for the video

Love your saying "Create Regardless"..Think that needs to be a T-shirt

Thanks for this video... I' m new melodyne user and these tips opened my eyes! Thanks a lot!!!

Thank you man, i’ve baught melodyne a week ago because my trial has expired and the program just felt great and sweet to use and manipulate the vocals with. I have lots of ideas and am desperate for technical knowledge to put that on to my computer. I still need to learn a lot and this definitely helps me as a beginner to maybe get somewhere. Thank you and thank you Melodyne

I wished I'd picked this video a year ago when it was posted. Thanks a lot for the concise and really helpful tutorial.

Logic has its built in flex pitch feature. It’s pretty good

What a godsend! Thanks for such a great tutorial!

Very well explained . Thanks 👍

Tips #3 and #4 Using a single take is tempting, but multing is the right way to do it. Agree 100%

That intro was beautifully mixed and mastered.

Thanks a lot for the tips man! Cheers from Brazil.

Thank you so much🙏🙏🙏🙏, sir I really needed this tutorial.

Hi Rob - thanks for the vid. Very timely as I'm actually using Melodyne today to tweak a bunch of vocal harmonies that I've comped :) All good tips but I'd like to offer a different POV on the idea of using multiple takes - a different take , so to speak. I've taken this approach quite a bit in the past and of course it does get results. However, it has a few drawbacks, of which I'll mention two -1) You spend A LOT of time picking between the elements of multiple takes and 2) It happens from time to time that in one or more sections NONE of the vocal take cuts it. When this happens you may need to do some pretty radical surgery to make it work. That's not only time consuming, but quite an art to get it sounding natural. An alternative approach that I often prefer to use is as follows:- - Singer comes in all warmed up an ready to go (of course they do ;). - Get all you levels etc on the mic, good headphone mix levels for the singer and be aware that how the singer is placed in relation to the mic effects the tone. (How high the mic is set in relation to the singers face; distance singer is from mic; whether they are facing square to the mic or slightly offset to one side or the other - all of these things effect the tone and are details well worth paying attention to in relation to the qualities you want to capture in the singers voice in the particular context of the song you're working on) - Do two full takes (yes - only two!) - The singer comes out of the booth and together you do a quick rough comp. In sections where neither of the takes cuts it, leave a muted section as a place-holder. - send the singer back into the booth to do sections that didn't make the cut. Just keep on doing takes of each of the sections until you're basically happy with one. In this fashion go through the entire song filling in those sections with muted place-holders. You may also decide that a previously comped section can be done better and redo that too. - the end result is a roughly comped complete track, ready to do more detailed edits and auto-tuning. This process takes a little more of the singer's time but overall saves a lot of time because you don't spend hours pouring over the finer points of multiple takes doing the comping etc. Of course it depends on the person but I've found that most singers respond really well to getting this engaged with the process of making a good comp and as they go back and work on the sections become quite focussed on achieving the result they'd like to hear. I like to start with only two full takes because it makes doing that quick comp with the singer much easier and quicker. With some singers I might do three but, be warned, having more than two takes slows the process down! Another approach that I've been taken through (this time as a singer) was simply going through section by section until we had the section nailed. I still prefer starting with a couple of full takes because it gives you a sense of the song as a complete thing. When you go back and focus on the sections, you're doing the section in the context of the whole narrative. Anyway - hope that made sense; I've gotta get on with nuancing some vocal comps with Melodyne now. Ironically, since I'm moving house and between studios I took the four singers to another studio and, with my time being cheaper than the studio's, we just went in and did multiple takes! I've been paying for this by spending way much more time than I'd like compiling takes... Thanks Rob for always being so generous with your knowledge and experience. I learn heaps from you :)

Thanx bro! Great content here =)

Perfect! I work the same way! But Cubase's variaudio give's you more agility with the tools, more control, with almost any artefacts and you can use it quickly even before comp to help to choose the best take for that sillable. In fact you just helped me to continue using Cubase. Anyway, very good job! I'm happy to see I already work like you and by the way clients are very happy.

Thank you , great video

Thank you for the tips.. Multi takes or recording at perfect pitch is most perfect way to start project.. Tools should be used for enhancement of performance.. :) Tools also saves many artist performance..

I got melodyne essential for free when I upgraded Acid pro and it’s been fun I’ve also noticed that it’s in general great for removing breathes and other background noice really seamlessly

This is quite informative and interesting. Excellent job (as usual). That said, I wouldn't want to do this with home recording, due to the large effort in learning the software as well as the amount of time it takes to do such fine editing. Probably the Logic Pro automatic level is the most I would ever consider for home recording. I suppose if your ambition is to produce something that will be heard on the "radio", it's what you have to do... If you're going to use a professional studio, be sure to set expectations with the engineer up front, and if you decide to correct tuning, make sure the engineer really knows what they are doing and are quite facile with the software; otherwise, you could spend a lot of time/money on fine-tuning. Lastly, I think it's rather sad that our expectations for vocals have reached such a level of perfection. Maybe that's why all pop vocals essentially sound the same these days.

Very good

Another grerat video. I also use Melodyne. To me, it's the best software ever for vocal or even some instruments.

FYI Logic Pro X has a manual pitch correction tool as well: Flex Pitch.

Hey...thanks for the tips. I must agree with you that Melodine is very good software to use for pitch correction and to get that natural vocal sound.

Johnny Cash said that he must have done 80 TAKES (probably half that but still) on "Folsum Prison" and they didn't have any of THIS available,so that was just to get THE one! Thanks ,I was beginning to think I was the only lazy vocalist.

I'm a Studio One user, which comes bundled with a stripped down Melodyne. I upgraded to a more complete version of Melodyne but still find Cubase's built-in VariAudio to be more featureful, flexible, and convincing. I will literally sometimes export a project to Cubase just to edit the vocal and then continue in Studio One.

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Hi, great video thanks for the advices! maybe you could help me with this problem I have. .. Well, when I finished editing vocals in "melodyne plug - in for logic" , I need to open the session again to do some final corrections, but I noticed that's when melodyne starts doubling the track on this final corrections..I mean, sounds like doubled vocals, I found some other people having this same problem.. Do you know what could be?

Hello! Thanks for the video I have a question: I am using a stack of tracks, and I insert all the plugins directly to the buss, but now I want to use Melodyne only on one specific track (among this stack of tracks), so if I insert the Melodyne plugin on top of my track's plugin list, will it be considered by Logic as the first one ? Given that the plugins in the buss starts at the n°2 position

Thanks a lot

Very interesting

I learned all of these on my own, but it was good to get some confirmation… And yes, I use Melodyne.

Thanks, I just bought melodyne. One question... Would recording vocals at 96khz rather than 44.1khz give smoother edits in melodyne.?

Is there any advantage of using Stereo Chorus on the Vocal Track?? I noticed that you do not have a Video that involves any Chorus on the vocal track. I ask this because I have a Vocalist coming over that said that I need to a setup so he can us his Stereo Chorus pedal on his vocals. But I tried to tell him that I have the TC Helicon Harmony G XT Vocal processor that gives a great Doubling effect. Any remarks will be greatly appreciated.

Excellent Job... Just a question... Why you don't want cut the waveform to follow the vibrato graph, cos the vocal is actually trying to sing a note but Melodyne transfer it to a straight line instead of following the vibrato graphs and then use the vibrato tool to curve the vocal slur pitch nicely and it still going to sound natural. Thank you.

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I love Melodyne! I have Editor, so it allows me to pitch correct my guitar as well. When I fret my strings, the notes go out of tune a lot. I use melodyne to put them exactly where they should be, which makes the guitar part sound so flawless. I even did that with heavy distortion. It somehow got most of the notation correct & I just made a subtle change. BTW, if you want to use the automated correction tool on the entire vocal or guitar, you don't have to highlight anything. If you don't highlight everything, it'll automatically correct the entire thing. I only highlight when I just want to correct one or a few notes.

How did you get the track to play in melodyne at 7:50?

Hey guys please help :( i don't have "correct pitch macro" button... I have Melodyne 5 (.v5.0.1.00).. I mean button like in 2:48... Please help :(

I find Waves Tune really nice to work with, or maybe it just feels nicer having spotted it on a Black Friday $29 deal ?!

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I usually autotune on Headphones and when i hear it on Speakers it doesn't sound like i did tune it. what and why is that

If you could, it would be awesome if you did one on the Antares Auto-Tune too!

One mistake I used to make was copying and pasting every note 12x, one for each semitone and it just sounded horrendous

Can Logic flex pitch do the same thing?

One correction. Pitch drift at zero percent is not normal, Pitch drift at 100% is corresponds to the original audio. Same applies for pitch modulation. See 4:57 if you dont know what I'm talking about

Here a year later to point out you didn't set the key in the stock PitchCor plugin so it wasn't really a fair representation of the plug.

I've used pitch tools in Cubase to create harmony vocals. But I would gouge my eyes out if I had to work that hard on a lead vocal. Easier to just make the vocalist do three takes and composite. They better get it right in three takes. Guitar solos, however, I take more pity on.

Cool topic and nice video, but what you showed here, could have easily been crunched to less then half of the length 🤔

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ReaTune does this as well.

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Many ,,musicians'' nowadays become famous when they make mistake #1. By the way, some DAWs have a possibility for nice manual tuning the vocal without using 3rd party plug-ins.

literally screaming at my screen "just cut it dude!" why didnt you at first? @ 4:36 you could have made 2 cuts at where the curve is at and then correct pitch automatically and it would probably have worked perfect all being on the same note.

That you, I feel should be 3 different notes.

Just sing in tune

Thats build in cubase

The problem is not to cut the f note at 47

I preferred the untuned sound :/

Still room for improvement.......

6:14 well... i quit :)

Comp away indeed, but Jesus, 20 takes is just too much.

Waste time

Best tip out there: Instead of correcting it, just record you vocals over and over again until it sounds perfect

you dont know how to use it already maaaaaaaaaaaaaan

Any kind of pitch-correction crap for vocals is unacceptable, goodbye.