Bilibili Macro Link 2021

[RealLight]

Originally Posted by njanjayrp

^ I think Zeke was just trying to make a point that for a brief second she has managed to sound like 2001's ayu.

I know

[brener]

What a performance for Dearest !!

[mizuki-7]

In the studio version she does the “Uuuuu” thing lol it was a stylistic choice she often did back then personnally I don’t mind because the “ouuuu” often sound off to me.
Well this performance is really amazing with these arrangements and it’s so strange to heard Ayu singing that high after all these years ...it’s a bit disturbing but in a good way I’m proud of her.

[kotora]

Her voice is great.

But the MY ALL performance is a bit sad at the part that she stops singing and let the audience to sing.. but there is no audience at her side.. and you can only hear the background voice.... that part is so sad and shows how pandemic changes the world in every single level even in this small performance.

[visionfactory]

Anna Tsuchiya made a long Instagram live in the dressing room before just coming up to the stage so I don't think it was pre-recorded

[summerain]

Originally Posted by visionfactory

Anna Tsuchiya made a long Instagram live in the dressing room before just coming up to the stage so I don't think it was pre-recorded

I think Ayu's part was 100% pre-recorded. They way she changed her outfit didn't seem it was live.

[Aderianu]

Originally Posted by summerain

They way she changed her outfit didn't seem it was live.

Absolutely right. Ayu change outfit in a second for something that can't be hide under the dress

[~angel*ayumi~]

Maybe Dearest was live and My All was pre-recorded

[hud]

ok this is it for me. this vocal technique she's using is trash. sing with your normal voice, woman.

[maxikot]

I was enchanted by this performance. Stunning and beautifully sang

[jyujiw]

Late in the party but I'm in love with the arrangement of Dearest. Wish the Made in Japan Tour was something like that, with oriental arrangements for her older songs, but oh well, that's life

I'm having mixed feelings with her baby voice, I'm happy that she's not screaming but I like it more when she sings more naturally like in the MY ALL performance. Want to see how she's doing with the Music For Life

[Cahz-]

I think the baby voice worked perfectly for Dearest.

[voltron]

The degree to which her voice does or does not sound robotic when pitch corrected is also largely due to the type of process they're using on her voice. Auto-tune is one form of pitch correction that often produces a more robotic sound. Over the years her team has used different processes, and unfortunately at times they've slipped back to lower quality ones and have produced robotic vocals. But this is inconsistent over the years.

There's also a difference between pitch/key and overall vocal quality. If her voice is in good quality, then pitch correction makes for a really good output in most cases unless she's horribly off key the entire performance. What it does not fix is poor vocal quality - you can still very clearly hear things like strained or worn vocals, even if the notes are correct. They did magic with Made in Tokyo, but she still sounds very tired.

[AJFmzk]

^ exactly. I know that melodyne and flex pitch both have a graph option where you can move notes and even parts of notes to the correct pitch and it will still have all the same characteristics and curve as the original input such as tone and tamber, wobble, air gaps etc. you can even edit the amount of vibrato in these programs and have it sound relatively natural. If you look up Nathan James Larsen on YouTube he has a recent video explaining all of this. It’s quite insane how much you can actually do these days (for better or worse). What you cannot fix in this way is tone quality, there’s only so much they can do with that, and that would need to be fixed with layering and reverb effects, and even then the best they can do is bury the tired/hoarse/thin vocals under layers of processed tracks and instrumentation if they don’t have a better performance to take it from.

[Chris85]

True, I've always preferred Melodyne over Auto-Tune. I still have nightmarish flashbacks about songs from the TV show "Glee" where they ruined the vocals of very talented cast (who for the most part barely needed any pitch-correction) with auto-tune abuse.

[AJFmzk]

^ yeah. And the really awful thing is how much I can detect autotune now on every song on the radio. It's like people think that a song doesn't sound polished or professional if it doesn't have a bit of autotune and it just makes everything terrible. I hate pitch correction with a burning passion. Ayu is a bit of an unfortunate scenario because of the damage to her ears and voice, but I still think she could get to a point where she can manage her pitch well if she sings with proper singing technique. We saw a glimpse of it in AT 2015 and Music For Life Return. If she is able to apply proper technique, she wouldn't even have to use the baby voice, she could get back to her 2004-2006 or even just 2015 voice minus the screaming...but perhaps I'm being way overly optimistic :p

[thinkingoutloud89]

since when is she pronouncing "itsuka" that way?

[Aderianu]

Anyone with bilibili supscription? Video have been updated to 4K

[summerain]

Originally Posted by Aderianu

Anyone with bilibili supscription? Video have been updated to 4K

I have a free subscription and I'm supposed to be able to stream videos in 4K, but I don't know how to download videos from bilibili.

[Aderianu]

I also have free and only 1080p is available for me