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25:52 · Auto-Tune · named · medium confidence
“each verse is like 3 different layers and they're all Auto-Tuned, but in a way that you can't tell as much”
Laura Les describes very light pitch correction on stacked Hollywood Baby verse vocals.

Bleachers

55:34 · Auto-Tune · implied · medium confidence
“I just put a shitload of Tune on it, which is the only song I sing through Tune”
Heavy pitch correction kept on the lead vocal to make the narrator sound trapped in the machine.
57:14 · Auto-Tune · named · high confidence
“someone screaming, get me out of here in Auto-Tune, it would be very interesting”
Discussed as an emotional, not corrective, tool for conveying entrapment.
1:12:57 · Auto-Tune · named · high confidence
“All right, give me a shitload of Auto-Tune. I want to be very distant in this song.”
Heavy Auto-Tune plus a vocal filter creates the dreamy, distant lead and the dissonant Auto-Tuned harmony bed.

Bring Me The Horizon

1:37:33 · Auto-Tune · named · medium confidence
“AlterBoy. Yeah, Auto-Tune.”
Dan adds Auto-Tune to the list of tools the album could not have been made without.

Charli XCX

3:09 · Auto-Tune · named · high confidence
“Normally I really like to be in the studio, in the booth with lots of Auto-Tune, figuring out melodies and really using that as a tool to write”
Charli names heavy Auto-Tune in the booth as her normal songwriting tool, contrasted with this album's voice-note origins.
16:58 · Auto-Tune · named · high confidence
“That's not Auto-Tune, that's fine. — That's not Melodyne or Auto-Tune. No, it's very different.”
Discussing how George nudged the whole gang vocal up half a semitone rather than using Auto-Tune or Melodyne pitch correction on Club Classics.
31:18 · Auto-Tune · named · high confidence
“I never am not singing with Auto-Tune... Anytime I write, I'm using Auto-Tune. Anytime I'm cutting vocals, I'm using Auto-Tune.”
Charli XCX describes Auto-Tune as permanently on her voice when writing, recording and performing live, to the point she relaxes into notes.
32:40 · Auto-Tune · named · high confidence
“You'll be like, turn it off, the Auto-Tune. Like for that gang vocal, you knew that that wasn't needed.”
They discuss knowing when to bypass Auto-Tune — the pitchy Club Classics gang vocal deliberately had none.
1:15:06 · Auto-Tune · named · high confidence
“that's clearly more of a classic sort of really high, hard Auto-Tune sound”
On 'rock music' the vocal moves in and out of hard Auto-Tune; an earlier, fully hard-tuned version was rejected as too close to Brat.
1:20:53 · Auto-Tune · named · high confidence
“Just sort of like classic reverb, maybe a little bit of delay, or maybe very dry at points, and the Auto-Tune.”
Charli describes her simple writing vocal chain — reverb, a little delay and Auto-Tune — in answer to a listener question on vocal effects.
1:22:16 · Auto-Tune · named · high confidence
“I mean, mine is obviously Auto-Tune... a pen and Auto-Tune would be mine.”
Asked what she can't work without, Charli names Auto-Tune (plus a pen for lyrics).

Clean Bandit

59:15 · Auto-Tune · named · high confidence
“and of course Auto-Tune. So you've got the Auto-Tune there first”
Auto-Tune sits first in Jack's vocal chain preset before EQ, compression and reverb.
1:08:10 · Auto-Tune · named · high confidence
“She'll kill me for not having like Auto-Tune on this. You can put it on afterwards, right?”
Joke while playing Julia Michaels' raw 48-minute writing take with no Auto-Tune on the vocal.
1:13:16 · Harmony Engine · named · high confidence
“It's called Antares Harmony Engine. It's not a vocoder... It creates fake harmonies based on when you play MIDI in”
The Imogen Heap-style stacked vocal effect in the I Miss You drop was made with Antares Harmony Engine driven by MIDI chords.

EJT

24:00 · Auto-Tune · named · high confidence
“I'm not someone that uses Auto-Tune ever. I think it's an abomination... it sounds very plasticky”
Strong anti-Auto-Tune stance: she relies on performance and intonation instead, especially for the octave-doubled outro vocal.

Hayley Williams

1:06:26 · Auto-Tune · named · high confidence
“We end up using like Auto-Tune effects all over this record, like for fun, just to add a layer.”
Auto-Tune is used as a creative effect across the album to present Hayley's voice in an unfamiliar way.
1:52:46 · Auto-Tune · named · high confidence
“It was kind of sacrilegious in a way to throw Auto-Tune on it, like pitch it up really weird, use heavy distortion.”
Auto-Tune and heavy pitch/distortion processing were deliberately applied to Hayley's voice on Glum.

Imogen Heap

22:35 · Auto-Tune · named · medium confidence
“I've got some Auto-Tune on there because I've just done a late-night vocal”
Auto-Tune was used on a rough late-night demo vocal in an early session of What Have You Done to Me.

Jamie xx

58:35 · Auto-Tune · named · medium confidence
“He sent me a dry stem and a wet stem with all of the Auto-Tune stuff and the reverb, and I ended up just using his wet stem”
Panda Bear's self-processed vocal, including his Auto-Tune treatment, was used as delivered because his techniques sounded better than reprocessing.

Joy Anon

41:55 · Auto-Tune · named · high confidence
“we tried to kind of keep Auto-Tune off original takes as much as possible, like when actually singing”
They deliberately avoid Auto-Tune on tracking vocals so singers commit emotionally, fixing things later instead.

Matthew Herbert

25:48 · Auto-Tune · named · high confidence
“And then this is me playing a flute but put through an Auto-Tune. So we're starting to bend different technologies coming together.”
Herbert processed a horse-bone flute performance through Auto-Tune to signal the collision of ancient and modern music technology.

Porter Robinson

29:18 · Auto-Tune · named · high confidence
“I'm kind of recording nonsense through Auto-Tune until I start to hear words.”
Auto-Tune is part of his topline writing workflow — he sings mouth sounds through it while searching for melody and vowel shapes.

Sam Gellaitry

26:30 · Auto-Tune · named · high confidence
“I have Auto-Tune engaged after then... sometimes that fluctuates because I can change the sound if it's before or after a compressor”
Auto-Tune is printed into the vocal recordings, placed before the compressor on this track.

Snarky Puppy

1:39:58 · Auto-Tune · named · medium confidence
“You can slap, you know, Auto-Tune on them. You can do all these kinds of things.”
Auto-Tune cited as an example of processing a careless mix engineer could inflict on a great vocal.

Tomora

42:57 · Auto-Tune · named · high confidence
“There's no tuning... I never would ever think of Auto-Tune on Aurora's voice. Like, no thank you”
Tom states no Auto-Tune or pitch correction is used on Aurora's vocals anywhere on the album.

d4vd

17:31 · Auto-Tune · named · medium confidence
“It's the first song that I had recorded where I wasn't like using Auto-Tune on. So I kept having to re-record vocals.”
Here With Me was his first track cut without Auto-Tune, which meant many more vocal takes and stacks.