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VOCAL INTONATION PROCESSOR
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INTRODUCTION
Congratulations on the purchase of your TC Intonator.
Why the Intonator ?
In recording, the voice is often referred to as "the money channel". There are a number of different reasons for this label. With pop music,
the lead vocal is considered the key to a song's success. The song and its arrangement can be perfect, but without a great vocal no one is
going to listen to the song. Another reason for that name would be the cost and amount of gear used on vocals. Engineers will take a
second mortgage on their home to get that elusive vocal sound. However, when the focus is put on the word MONEY in "the money
channel", one can not dispute the fact that a lot of time is spent tracking, double tracking, comping, editing, and mixing the voice.
Going with the defacto financial “one liner”: time is money, the amount of money spent on vocals can be staggering.
Though money saved due to less tracking-time spent, is a strong argument for utilizing the pitch correction techniques, a few musical
aspects should also be considered. Very often the strongest energy and timing occurs during the first two or three takes. Further tracking
just to nail a few “out of pitch” notes, often kills the initial energy and fresh feeling. Keep the “good track” and use the Intonator to correct
the few out of pitch notes there might be.
Another example is the situation where repeated tracking is unavoidable, while striving for the perfect vocal take. The result is an
exhausted vocalist. So, the timing and phrasing might be perfected after several takes, but as the vocalist gets tired one of the first skills to
slip is the intonation. Keep the take when only minor intonation problems exists and let the Intonator perfect the track.
These reasons have sparked the creation of Intonator.
Working with this unit you will discover that TC Electronic has once again created a unit with an intuitive, easy to use, time saving design.
Pitch mistakes can be corrected with a few adjustments on the front panel. There is no scrolling through vast amounts of parameters.
All the common parameters have their own dedicated controls.
The Pitch correction section combined with a De-esser tuned especially for vocals, and a pitch controlled Adaptive Low Cut filter, all fully
controllable via MIDI, makes the Intonator an essential tool in your setup.
TC Electronic sought help from a number of engineers, producers and performers when designing
the Intonator. However, one of the more notable names is IVL Technologies Ltd. IVL leads the way
in audio technology for the human voice. With 15 years of experience and dozens of famous prod-
ucts under their belts, TC enlisted IVL to provide newly researched pitch recognition and shifting
technology to fulfill the pro-audio standard of the Intonator.