Ian Bell wrote in message ...
Old Fart at Play wrote:

I don't know what goes on in recording studios these days
but I heard a chap on the radio say that a lot of automatic
pitch correction goes on for the benefit of tone deaf singers.
He also said that the effect is easy to recognise.


Cher released a song a year or so ago when the pitch corrector effect was
deliberately overdone.

Vocoder. Old bit of kit, much favoured by Joe Zawinul, the world's
most vocoded Austrian wooly hat wearer. The Cher effect is very
underdone, compared with Joe's oeuvre.

Steve.