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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

There’s no sound more prominent in rap right now than that of Auto-Tune. Since the mid 2000s, seasoned OGs like T-Pain and Lil Wayne have finessed the vocal effect into a hit-making cheat code. Based ...

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, ...

On The Vergecast: how a simple pitch-correction plugin became a dominant sound in music, and how the next technical revolution might follow its lead. On The Vergecast: how a simple pitch-correction ...

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 ...

It happened exactly 36 seconds into the song—a glimpse of the shape of pop to come, a feel of the fabric of the future we now inhabit. The phrase “I can’t break through” turned crystalline, like the ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Christian Petersen/Getty Images/Ezra Shaw - FIFA/FIFA via Getty Images T-Pain took it personally when Jay-Z went after artists who ...