GLEE: Christmas Album... surprisingly... amazing!
Just for the fun of it I bought Glee's Christmas Album. Surprisingly, the album is very charming. The sound arrangement are nice, recording quality is quite good (although definitely not reference), but most surprisingly they CAREFULLY use Melodyne and TASTEFULLY use Autotune !!!. The Autotune actually enhances the song and blended tastefully as part of the arrangment. Melodyne was clearly used but very sparingly (as sparingly as Rod Stewart's American Songbook V) and the engineer actually use the Melodyned voice as the main focus but use the less (or un-)fixed recording as the source of the reverb and multitap echo making the recording to be very thick and warm.
For a "modern" Xmas album, I highly recommend this recording especially track 2, Deck the Halls.
Just for the fun of it I bought Glee's Christmas Album. Surprisingly, the album is very charming. The sound arrangement are nice, recording quality is quite good (although definitely not reference), but most surprisingly they CAREFULLY use Melodyne and TASTEFULLY use Autotune !!!. The Autotune actually enhances the song and blended tastefully as part of the arrangment. Melodyne was clearly used but very sparingly (as sparingly as Rod Stewart's American Songbook V) and the engineer actually use the Melodyned voice as the main focus but use the less (or un-)fixed recording as the source of the reverb and multitap echo making the recording to be very thick and warm.
For a "modern" Xmas album, I highly recommend this recording especially track 2, Deck the Halls.
