The way that Travis Scott uses his vocals in a piece is unlike any other artist. After doing some extensive research into how Travis Scott manages to piece together his audio. I believe he starts off with Auto-Tune. Travis uses two different types of Auto-Tune. First he uses Antares Auto-Tune to create the almost robotic sounding effect made known by artist T-Pain. Also like T-Pain used Auto-Tune, Travis sets it so that the response is immediate. Travis Scott also uses a second type of auto-tune called Melodyne. Scott uses this in a different way, he uses Melodyne as more of a correction tool for the finer details for smoother transitions in his vocals and to make sure he can hit the high notes as well. Although Melodyne also offers the more robotic sounding auto-tune, its vast depth of cleaning and tidying up vocals is what differs it to Antares Auto-tune.
I found this research helpful because I was able to learn a detailed account of how travis Scott uses auto-tune, which applies to my project because I would like to portray this style in at least one of the songs from my EP. Although I do not have this software I will use this knowledge from the research carried out to use the logic stock auto-tune to the full extent and I know have the knowledge so that in the future when I purchase this software I will be comfortable using it.
I have also found two videos on youtube. One that shows you how to use Antares to get the T-Pain auto-tune effect and I have also found a YouTube video that briefly shows you how to finely tune you're vocals using the Melodyne software.
Travis Scott doesn't just use auto-tune on his voice. From listening to a few of his songs I can hear that he uses a range of different Audio FX, For example Distortion. You can find examples of distortion in a lot of travis Scotts songs for example 'The Prayer'. In this song, there are three clear different examples of distortion used. The first is from 0:25-0:30 and you can hear part of the sample in the background with distortion added to it. The next type of Distortion used is more subtle, on Travis's main vocals which start at 0:28. The distortion is used differently here as opposed to the way it was used on the sample. A small part of distortion is used producing the effect to the listener of cleaner sounding vocals because there is less diction to hear any extra frequencies in the voice. To produce this effect you need to set the drive(intensity of distortion) so its at a moderate level and set the mix(the balance between the unaffected and effected Audio/Midi) low so that you can quite clearly hear the vocals but the distortion is almost not heard. Finally at 2:08 there is a mix of auto-tune and distortion, I found this very helpful because it helped open up my eyes to blending Audio FX to create different and more complex sounds which will definitely help me with my EP. I like the distortion sound because I feel that it offers a wide variety of use for example you could use it on you're voice to help express emotion, or you could add it to a sample that sounded too repetitive to give it more complexity. The fact that this plug-in is so versatile is just another reason why I'm implicating it into my music, and its also simple to use.
I also found a straight forward video instruction how to use one of the distortion plug-ins in logic named Clip Distortion.
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