Auto-Tune founder Andy Hildebrand has admitted that today’s overexposed, musically glorified, animated vocal engineer is not being used the way it was created and intended to be used. Auto-Tune is best known for giving hip-hop artists like T-Pain, Diddy, Kanye West, and Akon the distinctive robotic sound that has made their music so popular. Yet Cher is the first notable artist to get her hands on this perfect voice, or else the hip-hop world has used it to turn rap artists into singers and transformed those who can’t hold a note. in signed artists.
While it may only recognize Auto-Tune when used to distort an artist’s voice in an automated audiometric adventure, the box is also a lifesaver and creator for many of your favorite artists. By adjusting notes and pitch, a singer (or anyone) can make their vocal performance literally sound perfect. Skeptical? Think back to a few years ago, when the now-predominant vocal artists were far from flawless, while today they seem to have taken a precise step. You know those artists who perform live to a booing crowd or, worse yet, silently, but sound flawless on the album? But is the use of Auto-Tune just a different sound that T-Pain revolutionized, innovated and popularized as a unique and sincere form of lyrical expression? Or is it a tool that gives artists an unfair advantage?
I think they are both. Auto-Tune, if used to adjust a wrong note here and there to save time in the studio, is being used fairly. However, when it is used in every song an artist puts out or when its evolutionary genius is exploited to create a false sense of perfection, then it has been severely abused.
I’ll be the first to admit that T-Pain offered a sound that no one else had, and since then veterans Lil’ Wane, Diddy and Kanye West have followed in his comedic vocal footsteps. Diddy even paid him for lessons and royalties. Auto-Tune needs some regulation and artists need to confess their imperfections if they want to win back their respect!