Chan talks about SKZ live singing and lipsync in "New Chan's room"
Short summary: Chan watched a vid "analyzed" their singing and decided to take things into his hand and explained it.
Main points:
Autotune: in the mic, alternate the sound coming out of the mic, used for aesthetic purposes. Example: his rap in Mayfly performance
Tuning: Process done on pre/recorded vocals to refine them. (autotune and tuning are different)
Backtrack: supporting vocals, help during a performance (with live singing). Example: district 9, he has to jump with a high note at the same time, he could try it live, but it sounds better with the supporting vocal.
lipsync: no live singing (with the original song played). Example: MV
pre-recorded vocals: the vocal and performances are filmed separately. The live vocal is pre-recorded. Example: when they performed on top of the building (Changwon festival), too much wind sounds, not possible to record the live vocal together. Another example: Thunderous Kingdom week, too many cuts, not possible to do with the audio like that.
What do SKZ do? In general, they always sing live whenever they can. There are times the PD asked them to lipsync and they always ask to turn their mic on. There are times, the PD will ask them to do a pre-recorded vocal.
Also, Chan showed off his room at the new dorm today
The part on lipsync is all in English: Chan live Starts from around 01: 08: 00
A clip from the vlive
In conclusion, the only times they lipsync is when the situation don't allow them to sing live otherwise, they would ALWAYS choose to sing live pic.twitter.com/RtFOTUsFTC
— 🍁 (@jureumifieds) January 22, 2022
Detail translation of Chan's explanation in Chan's room (open the below thread):
: Does Stray Kids always sing live?
— 젤리빈 Jelly Bean👑 (@jellyskz) January 22, 2022
Chan saying he thinks people are wondering if they ever lip sync. He said he saw a video a couple days ago? Talking about live singing/lip syncing/autotune. He said he’ll explain as much as he knows since he’s the one who performs. +