>Fact is, people say this, but when artists actually release music that uses no autotuning, it tends to be less popular.
The kind of artists worth listening to wouldn't touch autotune with a 1000ft pole. They're less popular to begin with - but can still have tens of millions of fans globally (say, someone like Tom Waits).
> The kind of artists worth listening to wouldn't touch autotune with a 1000ft pole. They're less popular to begin with - but can still have tens of millions of fans globally (say, someone like Tom Waits).
Whoops, bad news! Tom Waits' mixing engineer is explicitly mentioned in Melodyne's brochure.[0] Melodyne 3, too, so he's been using it for quite a while. You may want to shorten the length of that 1000ft pole.
>Whoops, bad news! Tom Waits' mixing engineer is explicitly mentioned in Melodyne's brochure
Which is not Tom Waits. A guy worked with 200 clients, has done gigs with Waits, and puts the most famous client names as ("has worked with"), not necessarily the one they used Melodyne on (which he doesn't even claim).
The kind of artists worth listening to wouldn't touch autotune with a 1000ft pole. They're less popular to begin with - but can still have tens of millions of fans globally (say, someone like Tom Waits).