Pitch Correction Quotes

I have never used Auto-Tune in a live television performance, and I have never used Auto-Tune in any of my concerts. That is a promise.

I do most of my vocals - aside from a couple of little one-shot vocal samples. I record everything into the Saffire with an SM58 then scratch it with loads of plug-ins. I don't do much vocoding to be honest. All my vocals are usually done with Melodyne and a ton of other plug-ins to make it sound weird.

Anytime people read my tweets, they hear it in Auto-Tune.

Everything I sang sounded awful. So I went outside and I screamed. Everyone pretty much agreed it was awful.

I use Auto-Tune but it's not to mask anything. If you come to see me live, I can sing on the spot. Auto-tune is just for the recording. It keeps everything really precise.

Often, when I work with a vocalist, I like to focus on the melodies first.

Auto-tune is good to keep your notes intact, but it doesn't do much for the feel of your voice.

There's a lot of stuff you've gotta know about Auto-Tune before you can start using it, because it's the hot thing to do.

The thing about Auto-Tune is it can't fix everyone. It only fixes pitch. Everything else - the emotion and the attack and the energy? That's what a singer is.

I would never ever sing at all if I could get away with it. I had pitch problems, no range. So what I did was manipulate the sound... that way you couldn't tell that I wasn't very good.

The Auto-Tune makes everybody sound the same and takes away all of the emotion because you're singing through this machine, and of course your taking all of this emotion out of your voice for the most part.

I don't see anything wrong in using auto-tune.

Everybody I've ever seen live sings out of tune, even the greatest singers in the world. And of course if you make a single nowadays, they'll autotune it anyway.

I'm not a great singer

Time has changed and artists release more songs in a short span of time and that's where the auto-tune steps-in. One doesn't have to record a song multiple times to make it better.

I think everyone uses Auto-Tune.

When I first used Auto-Tune, I never used it to sing. I wasn't using it the way T-Pain was. I used it to rap because it makes my voice sound grittier.

I think Eminem should use Auto-Tune.

Drake, the way he uses that Auto-Tune has always been attractive, hasn't it?

People got a little too self-conscious about the techniques that go into recording because sometimes, if you sing too well in tune, people accuse you of auto-tuning. It's like you have to use auto-detuning or something.

What is auto-tune? I don't even know what auto-tune is.

I listen to a lot of the people that use Auto-tune.

You can actually have a pitch button, you know, to get people on pitch.

That sound in tune to you?.. Sounds sharp to me. Sounds like I'm playing sharp all the time. My singing teacher told us you should do that. Maybe I got it from her. She said singers when they grow old have a tendency to go flat. So if you sing sharp as a young person, as you get older and go flat, you'll be in tune. In other words, it's never thought good to be flat. It means you can't get to the tone.

Because my early music was heavily produced, people assume my voice was also heavily produced.