T-Pain has a rare distinction in music: When you think of one musical instrument, tool, or innovation, his name is the one that immediately comes to mind. Of course, this is due to him popularizing ...
Steve Perry is decrying the prevalence of Auto-Tune, the popular audio tool used for pitch correction and vocal effects. "Auto-Tune has turned everybody into the same singer," the former Journey ...
Auto-Tune can serve as an additive or a crutch, but it has opened the floodgates for a relentless wave of untalented goons in the mainstream. The constant Auto-Tuning of vocals begets formulated, ...
Linda Diaz and Arthur Buckner uncover how Auto-Tune became THE in-demand tool for studios. Thanks to artists like T-Pain, Cher, and Kanye West, Auto-Tune went from being an industry secret to an ...
Typically, the music-streaming public remains at arm’s length when it comes to tricks and tips that artists use in the recording studio — it’s too nerdy, too complicated, and only useful to obsessives ...
Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. I admit that, before arriving at the NAMM show this week, I didn’t know that Auto-Tune was an actual brand. Like ...
"I don't see it as a bad thing," she said. "I know there's this stigma that if you use auto-tune, you're not a real artist." "I don't have the strongest voice," she continued. "My voice is good when I ...
When it comes to vocals, Ariana Grandedoes this. It only makes sense that Ariana would feel the need to defend herself against someone claiming that she's using auto-tune during her live shows. "It ...
Various decades have their musical signature, like the excessive use of synthesizers and hairspray in the 1980s pop music scene. Likewise, the early 2010s was marked by a fairly extreme use of ...
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