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 ...

Ed Ledsham explores the history of auto-tune... (Listen to Auto-tune Anthems on Spotify). "Auto-Tune is great for fixing vocals, but we use Auto-Tune in a way it wasn't designed to work. A lot of ...

Gizmag has been following the development of the Antares Auto-Tune for Guitar technology with great interest since it was first teased back in May 2011. In January 2012, it was launched in two guitars ...

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 ...

Linda Diaz and Arthur Buckner uncover how Auto-Tune became THE in-demand tool for studios. Thanks to artists like T-Pain, Cher, and Kanye West, Auto-Tune went from being an industry secret to an ...

Nearly 10 years since the release of T-Pain's "I'm Sprung," we take a look at the best Auto-Tune songs of the past five years.

Before inventing Auto-Tune, the software that would change the music industry forever, Andy Hildebrand was a research scientist in the oil industry. Working for Exxon Production Research and then ...

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 ...

The following sentence might come as a huge shock to teens and Millennials, so stop tweeting for a second, kids, and get prepared for a totally outlandish statement. Here it is: Once upon a time, pop ...