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Christian Petersen//Ezra Shaw - FIFA/FIFA via T-Pain took it personally when Jay-Z went after artists who use Auto-Tune on his 2009 single, "D.O.A. (Death of Auto-Tune)." Around the eight-minute mark ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

When you think of the rapper T-Pain, the first word that comes to mind might be auto-tune. At the beginning of the 38-year-old rapper's career, he took over the Billboard Hot 100 with his use of the ...

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 ...