Auto Tuning / personnel

[Awesoman]

I think in some cases the use of Autotune comes off as a trendy effect to sound "modern".  Hell, rapper T-Pain makes a living off of it.  I don't understand the appeal.  It's no secret that studio wizardry is used to sweeten vocals in the mix, but when it's this blatantly obvious it makes you wonder if the effect was deliberate.  🤷‍♂️

[Emdeeh]

Extreme Autotune makes me cringe, which is why I don't care for a lot of current popular music.

[Tom]

I have a feeling Eagle Rock use a degree of autotune on all their live releases. Most of the Queen concerts they've put out have a fair bit of tune on Freddie's voice. I guess it's the simplest way to 'clean up' performances which weren't necessarily perfect/intended for release in their initial formats. Still, it's historical revisionism and it sounds like sh*t (and will continue to sound worse as 2000's era autotune technology becomes more and more dated).

[Pretty Funky]

Extreme Autotune makes me cringe, which is why I don't care for a lot of current popular music.

+1

[The 4th Wilson Bro.]

Many of you are obviously knowledgeable about music and recording techniques. I love great music, but I'm a novice when it comes to knowing about/recognizing autotune, pitch correction, etc.

But haven't studio recordings always used techniques that make the vocals sound better (maybe not better, but at least different) than they sound in live performances?

Please try to explain in layman's terms to someone who would really like to know.