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“Jay-z is a fervent critic of autotune, as he demonstrated in hie 2009 song DOA – Death of Autotune” (CNN). The fact that the industry standard is now to record, correct, then publish hasn’t set well with everybody. Another commented that”digital pitch correction, it seems, has become the rule, not the exception, so much so that the accepted solution for too much pitch correction is more pitch correction” (Soundstudiesblog). Pitch correction has now become an industry norm, to the point that one producer commented “being able to comp, tune, and repair the timing of a vocal is now a standard skill set among engineers” (Soundstudiesblog). “ Believe was the first recording to use Autotune in a distinctive way, now known as the Cher effect” (Wikipedia). This was followed soon after, by Cher, also in 1998 with her catchy song, Believe. The earliest commercial use of Auto-Tune as a vocal effect in a popular song was Roy Vedas‘ Fragments Of Life in Aug(Wikipedia). By now, the benefits of pitch correction were obvious, and the race was on to design better, and easier to use devices.Įnter Autotune in 1998. Shortly after Channel 5 first used the Eventide H910,”producer Tony Visconti used the H910 to create the snare sound on David Bowie’s album Low (1977) as did Tony Platt on AC/DC’s song “Back in Black”(Wikipedia). Music studios were quick to follow the lead of Channel 5. Speeding up the reruns had increased the pitch of the audio, and the H910 was able to shift that pitch back to where it originally had been.” (Wikipedia). Ironically, “The first H910 customer was New York City’s Channel 5, utilizing it to downward pitch shift I Love Lucy reruns that were sped up to create room to run more commercials. This was the first commercially available pitch correction device. The potential of pitch correction was recognized, and engineers set about designing devices specifically for the purpose of altering and correcting pitch.īy 1975, Eventide was producing the H910 Harmonizer. As early as the 1950’s musicians were experimenting with crude oscillator driven amplifiers to alter vocal pitch. With the improvement of electronic recordings, came the desire to alter and improve the natural voices. In the past, that meant taking the good with the bad. When a musical performance includes a vocal element, it is normally the focal point of the performance.