Neil deGrasse Tyson Quotes

I think Eminem should use Auto-Tune.

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.

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

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

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.

When young people hear auto-tune, they think that's real R&B. You have to get rid of all of the gimmicks.

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 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.

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

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.

I've got a song on every album, two songs as a matter of fact on every album without Auto-Tune, and that's the song that nobody talks about. It's weird.

The voices on the record, that was trying to treat my voice like guitar players treat guitar tones.

With technology now, you can go in and sing a song, and for $100,000, you will sound flawless.

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 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.

My voice has been very, very produced, and very treated - but then, also, it hasn't.

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.

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.

The main thing about being a producer and not a beatmaker, the difference is the ear.

Yes, because as composers we are looking for textured voices, and often the singers we find are not trained to perform in a studio environment. So we need technology to doctor their voices to suit the format.

I'm always saying in the studio, 'My vocals are too loud!' or 'My vocals have too much effect on them!' I like some of it, but I'm not a fan of loading effects onto my voice.

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