Production Advice

This post will NOT tell you how to sound like T-Pain. Sorry, but it’s too easy – all you need to do is buy a copy of the iPhone App that the man himself is plugging to death in the video above.

This post is to say – why the hell would you want to sound like T-Pain in the first place, anyway ?

OK, silly question – he’s a rich, famous, successful and talented musician. But there seems to be an obsession with emulating his highly processed vocal sound – WHY?

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Last week I posted about a complete music track produced on an iPhone.

Already that’s out of date.

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This video shows a track called “Future Is Now” – produced entirely on the iPhone.

When I left college I remember realising that I missed making music. The solution was an Amiga 1200 computer running OctaMed - capable of playing a whopping 8 simultaneous sounds, albeit only 8-bit samples, and typically at 16 kHz sample rate max. (Yes, that means the frequency cut-off was 8K)

The Amiga was roughly the size of a DVD player, more expensive then than an iPod Touch is now, and you needed a TV and hi-fi to plug it into.

How times have changed…