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Here's a Metal Version of Play with Fire, please crit.

Here's a Metal Version of the Rolling Stones, "Play with Fire." I have made it up-tempo and rockin'. Rumor has it that the original recording was done by Keith Richards on Acoustic, Mick on vox, and to keep time, they found the late-night janitor at the studio to play tambourine. The original song referenced different towns in England, but my version has LA area cities.

Problem With Auto-Tune

Of course I've heard the argument that instead of reaching for pitch correction with a less than desired performance, you should find a better singer who can sing in tune. For me, seeing as that pitch correction is used in almost all "pop" music nowadays. And I focus primarily on recording "pop", melodyne and auto-tune are two core tools of my studio and buisness.

The Perfect Mix...

As engineers, producers and musicians, we tend to listen to songs differently than others do; the engineers in us will start to pick apart a mix, and listen for both the good and the bad; things that we love, things that we don't like so much... The producers among us will listen to the arrangement, and how the mix was approached, treated and printed.