In more than three decades of music making, I think I’ve worked with a vocalist… mm, let me see… once. Itdid at the time: turned to technology! Only technology of the late ’80s didn’t really help. It was digital – just – but Atari’s didn’t have Auto-Tune (the inventor of Auto-Tune probably wasn’t even born). So I vowed that, going forward, I would simply do the vocals myself. And then, after realising I can’t sing, quickly vowed again that I would simply wait until technology caught up to make my vocals sound half decent. Fast forward 30-odd years and computers are good enough to make even my poor singing great. So I’m using and abusing my job to bring you (aka me) a great feature on how you (aka me) can make your (aka my) terrible vocals sound great. It starts on p16 and covers just about everything – tuning, effects, mixing and gear – to make anyone’s vocals passable. I’ve waited more than three decades for this. Now to dust off that vintage microphone and get recording. Now where are those Tolkien books?”
