T-Pain has a rare distinction in music: When you think of one musical instrument, tool, or innovation, his name is the one that immediately comes to mind. Of course, this is due to him popularizing ...

Since its first iteration in the late ‘90s, Auto-Tune has, for better or for worse, turned into something of a Pandora’s Box. Today, we’re diving into the history of the controversial, ever-evolving ...

Prologue: 1998, "The Robot-like Voice"1998. A dance-pop song plays on the radio in the UK.It is sung by the veteran American ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

“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 ...