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 ...

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 ...

According to the prophet Isaiah, grass withers, flowers fade, but God’s word endures. In the age of social media, so do the mistakes of church musicians. Play the wrong chord, forget the words to a ...

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 ...

This plugin is packed with flexible and useful technologies that extend way beyond the basic Auto-Tune remit, while remaining one of the best pitch correction plugins around. Best guitar tuners 2026: ...

"In the nebula of my soul." Okay, I'm not great. "But now I find her heart is like a big black hole." All right, I'm terrible. But here's what I'm wondering: if, digitally, you can remove red-eye, ...

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 ...

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Just because hip-hop/R&B star T-Pain single-handedly — albeit accidentally — transformed the pop chart with his retro-futuristic sound, don’t expect him to strangle the goose that laid the golden egg.

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 ...