Electronic Musician

Processing your vocal

itch-correcting and Auto-Tune software can help to massage and sculpt a duff performance into something that shines. But that's not necessarily something that every track calls for. It's become a truism that vocal manipulation – be it formant shifting, stuttering/glitching, extreme compression, distortion or rigidly aggressive use of Auto-Tune to replicate a sort of vocoding effect – is so ubiquitous in today's pop landscape that it's more unusual to find a track that doesn't exhibit it

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