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Originally Posted by miki_beland
The point is not the voice being edited, but it being edited THAT much. Since the release of the A BEST LIVE audio CD and the DVD, her voice has always been extremely edited, far more noticeable than before.
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Exactly! I am baffled how anyone can miss the change in her vocal editing. As someone put it, it's as if they are "introducing new Android Ayu!"
Listen to R'n'R Circus microphone where there is power and force behind her voice. As well as Memorial address. Unbelievable.
Now compare the sound to her current edited voice. It has a ton of reverb. It sounds almost completely processed using the template of Ayumi Hamasaki - not being projected from a real person.
I will say I have not watched the show yet. However, from the clips I've heard, that is what I noticed. I will watch when I have time, but it's like her voice now sounds like how the lip-synced pre-recorded tracks during past lives (ANGEL'S SONG, HONEY @ CDL). It has that "smoothed out rawness" to it. She may have been singing the show live but I feel like whatever they have done to pre-recorded tracks in the past, they are starting to filter the same way in post-processing prior to release.
Performances of the past have been good to watch her give life to songs - to really channel and enhance the environment of the song before our very eyes. Add a little something that makes the live version unique among recordings, etc. Now I feel as if she's not projecting life through these performances. It's very cookie-cutter.
Anyway, just an observation. I will watch the full things eventually.
EDIT: Watching a bit and during CAROLS and momentum it doesn't look as if the sound is coming directly from her voice. It looks like a layover or she is lipping. Secondily, I do think she lipped momentum because even at the time of recording she said she had difficulty getting that one out. She barely struggled here and there was a specific part where her voice trailed off/faded away as if it was an effect of editing.
Because of You is sung with high pitch? Since when? I feel like I'm watching a tv show where they have re-cast the lead actress / voice actress.