Well, just goes to show how appearances can be deceptive, doesn't it. Ke$ha is anything but a spoiled brat, she used to live even poorer than me, and that's saying a lot.sorry user name taken. said:
I'm very well aware of the history of Autotune, much more than most people because I work in the industry and we use it all the time. When you hear that electronicish sound from Autotune, that's from someone who has hit the pitch correction slider all the way up to 100%. They're making it obvious that Autotune is being used - they're using it as a sonic device to give the singing that deliberately artificial, robotic sound (which isn't that different to a vocoder - a device that has been around for decades, probably most commonly associated with Kraftwerk). However, most use of Autotune is more subtle than that, and when used in a more subtle way, with the effect scaled back a bit and also combined with other digital signal processing effects, the singer sounds like they are hitting the right notes and you can't even tell that Autotune is being used. I worked on a session once where we auto-tuned a singer's dud notes, made him listen back to it and even he couldn't tell it was there. You would be amazed how often it is used, and how much music in your collection uses it, across all (that's right - all) genres. When you hear obvious autotune, that's autotune being used as an effect, but you don't need to make it that obvious if all you want to do is fix a singer's dodgy pitching, nor would you want to, because then people start to question if the person can sing. It's when you don't hear autotune, that is when it's often being used to cover up a bad vocal performance!
