TC-Helicon VoiceTone Correct - Manual (Page 31)

Getting comfortable with correction
No one likes the idea of needing pitch correction.
Everyone would much rather just sing in-tune. Correct
helps you do this. The reality is that no one ever sings
perfectly on pitch. This is not really a problem since it
isn't necessary to be perfectly in pitch to have a good
sounding vocal. In fact, natural pitch variances help make
singers who they are. Sounding like a robot is not the
goal.The goal is to sing in-tune at the end of a long set,
when you're tired, or just having a bad day. The goal is
to constantly improve your singing.
VoiceTone Correct can help.
The reasons for singing out of pitch are both a function
of physiology and psychology. A person's ability to hit a
desired pitch is affected by the way they hear the music
around them, coupled with their physical ability to
reproduce the pitch they want to sing. Pitch correction
most often occurs in the recording studio where the
pitch is corrected after a vocal is recorded.
When pitch correction is used live, the sound engineer
usually applies the correction to the mains and not the
monitors. In both cases, the artist doesn't hear the
corrected signal while they are singing. We've designed
Correct to be used differently. With Correct the singer
hears the corrected signal while they are singing. It
becomes a guide track. It's like being in a vocal duo and
singing unison with someone who sings in perfect pitch.
What happens is that the singer automatically self-
corrects their own voice to match Correct's pitch
corrected output. Sometimes, when pitch correction is
only applied at the mains, and a singer is singing flat, he
or she will keep singing flat. When using the Guide
Output on Correct, the singer immediately hears as they
stray out of tune, and can immediately compensate.
Even great singers, if they are not feeling well, or have
over-worked their voices, sometimes sing out of pitch. A
common tendency when this happens is for the singer
to tense up, which creates even more vocal strain. Using
Correct tends to relax people in these situations. Good
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