<\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\nWhile autotune is, on the whole, much more tamed and transparent nowadays, there are still some otherwise good songs ruined by the obvious abuse of autotune. Something which is designed to correct vocals to make them sound better now leaves the listener with the impression that they must have sucked to start with.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Every time I hear the robot voice kick in, I just think how out of tune that singer must have been, and how lazy the producers were to think they could just short cut production by slapping a plugin on instead of comp’ing or doing a retake.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Because this is the thing, a perfect take doesn’t do anything to autotune. It only acts on the bad notes. The further off they are, the more adjustment it has to make and so the more obvious it is. Consider playing a song ever so slightly slower or faster. You are not going to notice a difference. But play a song twice as fast and it will suddenly become obvious that it is altered.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
There are so many songs where the autotune is almost certainly present but is not apparent due to both a quality singer in the first place coupled with a brilliant studio engineer taking the time to adjust the autotune to taste instead of slapping on a preset and assuming it will go unnoticed.<\/ins><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AUTOTUNE is one of the most controversial developments in modern music, created by Antares Audio…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5426,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[117,5],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"\n
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