Badshah Quotes

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

I think everyone uses Auto-Tune.

Technology has allowed people to make records really cheap. You can make a record on a laptop.

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.

Anytime people read my tweets, they hear it in 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.

I think Eminem should use Auto-Tune.

I'm a huge fan of home recording. I think it levels the playing field. You don't need $100,000 to record a studio CD.

All my vocals were recorded at home, which was great for me. You can actually have a studio in a computer program called ProTools. I did half the record with ProTools.

Now, you can just get a laptop, get some software, put a microphone on it and make a record. You have to know how to do it. It does help if you've had 35 or 40 years of experience in the studio. But, it still levels the playing field so artists can record their own stuff.

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

I am such a gearhead. In my recording studio, I personally engineer and edit everything on computers.

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

Our job as producers is to make the music sound as good as possible.

Pro Tools was invented to quicken the recording process.

Yes, we record practically everything on Pro Tools.

Today's recording techniques would have been regarded as science fiction forty years ago.

I've been so entwined with technology since I was about 15, recording myself and multitracking and producing things on my own.

With this CD technology, you can just remix a record right there on the spot.

I'm sure I'll go back again and record in the digital process.

Nowadays you can record on your laptop with Pro Tools, which I do quite often.

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

Ideally, the music composed these days should sound much better because of the technology, right? But that's not the fact. The sounds that you hear out of technological recording are programmed sounds coming out of a computer.

It doesn't matter if you record with a microphone on a laptop or at a friend's house. Now it's more of a danger of things sounding too high-fi than sounding too low-fi.

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