Re:The Mathematical Genius of Auto-Tune
by tarsinge on Tuesday October 17, 2017 @09:42AM
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> makes the voice sound cleaner, thicker, more polished
I think here you may be confusing Auto-tune with "modern" voice processing, which while happened together are quite different. Modern pop singers are overdubbed ridiculously with added distorsion, resulting in a "massive" (and slightly "robotic") lead voice.
Edit: You can clearly hear this "saturation" in the song Hello by Adele (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQHsXMglC9A), especially in the chorus. Compare with her natural voice: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-yL7VP4-kP4
Re:The Mathematical Genius of Auto-Tune
by DonHopkins on Monday October 16, 2017 @06:14PM
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Let's all chip together and buy Meat Loaf a copy of Auto-Tune.
[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmhTmKD6rXc
Same man, same song, in 1978, 1986, and 2000:
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fcLV6gE6THg [2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hwwu5vYSShY [3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQkXdRKMB9c
And now in 2015:
[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovGwkScJRZ4
Now, while it's possible that he simply became a better singer between 2007 and 2015, subtler auto-tuning of the type conventionally used in pop production generally just makes the voice sound cleaner, thicker, more polished. Note that his style has also changed to favor staccato phrasing so as to limit stairstepping artifacts.