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Ok, fair enough. Every Kanye West song I've heard recently.

It's an interesting sound, it's just overused recently. There's basically two ways to use Auto-Tune: the intended way, cleaning up the pitch of vocals; and as a deliberate distortion effect, a la T-Pain / Kanye's recent songs. The latter produces a very distinct sound that gets old, fast.



The 'deliberate distortion effect,' that's apparently not the intended way to use Auto-Tune, has been used as a vocal effect for decades now, not specifically with Auto-Tune but with instruments like the TokBox and vocoders.

Thing is, people say it gets old because they think that all voices filtered through Auto-Tune sound the same, but that's not true. Kanye's voice through Auto-Tune sounds a lot different than T-Pain's, and you have to be talented to make it sound good. Can it be a cheesy effect? Absolutely. But if tuned correctly, can really add a cold, robotic color to a track.

Personally, I love it. Kanye uses differently than T-Pain and they are very distinct styles I enjoy.

It's a damn fun thing to play around with, too. :P


T-Pain abuses it on every song he has. Kanye, personality issues aside, used it quite well for a change from his normal style of music. He's not the _worst_ culprit of using Auto-Tune and ruining music.




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