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The Rise and Impact of Auto-Tune in the Music Industry
TLDR Auto-Tune, a plugin software originally released in 1997, revolutionized the music industry by allowing for pitch correction and faster song production. Cher's use of Auto-Tune in her hit song "Believe" popularized the software, leading to its widespread use by artists like T-Pain, Snoop Dogg, and Jay-Z.
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Auto-Tune was first used in Cher's song "Believe" in 1998, which became a huge hit and established her comeback, leading to widespread interest in how it was done.
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Auto-Tune is a plugin software that was originally released in 1997 for Pro Tools, and its main purpose is to pitch correct a singer's voice, allowing for faster and cheaper song production.
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Auto-Tune was originally meant for professionals and was compared to makeup, but Cher's use of it to the extreme changed everything and showed the potential of the software.
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Andy Hildebrand, the inventor of Auto-Tune, retired at the age of 40 after earning enough money from his innovations, including a program called Infinity and a modeling microphone.
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Auto-Tune takes a singer's vocals, maps them, and nudges them into the correct key, resulting in a perfect take that sounds natural and in the original tone and inflection of the artist.
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Auto-Tune, specifically the zero function, was used by producers to create a weird effect on vocals, and over time, other producers figured out how to use it, with T-Pain being one of the main users, leading to the effect being called the "T-Pain effect."
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Auto-Tune became popularized by T-Pain, but Snoop Dogg and Jay-Z also used it, leading to its widespread use and eventual parody in ads.
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Auto-Tune is being compared to the initial reaction people had to the electric guitar, and some are wondering if it will fulfill the same destiny.
41:51
The hosts of the podcast discuss a listener's concern about the difference in how they receive corrections compared to the female hosts, highlighting the issue of misogyny and disrespectful comments towards women on the internet.
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The hosts discuss the negative comments they receive based on their gender, including slurs and gendered criticism, and how it wears them down over time.
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The hosts discuss the complexity of online misogyny and racism, and how they handle negative comments and criticism.
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