Learning to sing like Aretha Franklin isn't something you can do overnight. But over the past decade, recording studios have been fudging things a bit with software called Auto-Tune, which enables ...

When Andy Hildebrand, a geophysicist who spent decades working in the oil industry, sat down to discuss the next chapter of his life at a dinner party, little did he know that things would turn out ...

We make the case for Auto-Tune, with a little help from T-Pain When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. If you’re a music tech nerd, ...

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 ...

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If you haven’t been listening to pop radio in the past few months, you’ve missed the rise of two seemingly opposing trends. In a medium in which mediocre singing has never been a bar to entry, a lot ...

The iconic singer credited "Believe" as the "first time auto-tune was ever used" during an appearance on ‘The Jennifer Hudson Show’ on Tuesday Who knew a studio argument would lead to one of Cher’s ...

Ella Langley says she has been facing ongoing pressure to enhance her vocal cords while performing live by using auto-tune. She won't do it, and her mind won't change, she insists. Langley was a guest ...

Singer Arijit Singh recently talked about the concept of auto-tune and cited an example of AR Rahman. In a chat with The Music Podcast, he said it was Rahman who started auto-tune in India and singers ...

“Do you believe in life after love?” Cher used to sing. And if you’ve ever heard that song, you might now have an earworm in your head. The singer’s 1998 comeback track marked the first prominent use ...

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 ...