Artists that do not use pitch correction
 

I've been heavily put off most music since the 2000s due to the high use of Auto-Tune (and similar software) in the industry. When recording music by myself I use my natural voice (sometimes with reverb, no other effects), and it sounds like the pre-1998 singing. Virtually all pop music now uses pitch correction, but do any of these alternative bands use Autotune on a regular basis from what you know? My dad says no, but some have become suspicious compared with their stuff from the 90s if around then.

*Foo Fighters
*Anathema
*Green Day
*Counting Crows
*Billy Bragg
*Hayseed Dixie
*Evanescence
*Wilco
*Nine Inch Nails
*Tristania

Among some of these possibly not using correction, what are some other artists who don't? I'm interested to see what modern stuff can be like without.

if foo fighters are atop your list of bands doing something good, light it on fire immediately

You get that 99% of modern music doesn't use autotune, right? You get that there is stuff to he found outside of mainstream pop, right?

But, just for the fun of it, enter most of the music on my phone (not everything, I've got more on my laptop too)

Andrew Jackson Jihad
Aphex Twin
Ariel Pink
Autechre
The Bad Plus
BADBADNOTGOOD
The Black Keys
Black Pus
Blackhandpath
Botanist
Bygones
City Developer
Danny Brown
Deafheaven
Death Grips
Dolorian
Dope Body
Earl Sweatshirt
Esprit
Fiona Apple
Fleet Foxes
Flying Lotus
Future of the Left
Godspeed You! Black Emperor
Have a Nice Life
Hella
Iceage
The i.l.y's
Indian
Jello Biafra and the Guantanamo School of Medicine
Kamasi Washington
Kendrick Lamar
The Kills
LCD Soundsystem
Lightning Bolt
Lord Loon
Machine +
Macintosh Plus
Marnie Stern
Melt Banana
Merzbow
My Bloody Valentine
Nails
Napalm Death
Nas
Planktons Odyssey
The Pop Group
Pord
Portishead
Queens of the Stone Age
Run the Jewels
Sacred Tapestry
Shellac
Sleaford Mods
Sleater Kinney
Slugdge
Sunn O)))
Swain
Swans
Tame Impala
Tera Melos
Thee Silver Mt. Zion
Tim Hecker
Tim Minchin
Tokyo Death Watch
Tom Waits
Trouble Salad
White Suns
Wolves in Sheepskin
The Wytches
Zach Hill
Zoo Strategies
Zs
Zu

Etcetera.

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Oh yeah man, Wolves in Sheepskin (WISSK) are the bomb. True artists.

https://wolvesinsheepskin.bandcamp.com

I take back the bit about WISK not being autotuned. Frownland beats dead animals with stolen whack-a-mole hammers while screaming a french translation of the Panamania national anthem backwards while slapping his friend in the face with a sockeye salmon filled with screwdrivers and used heroine needles before overdubbing "anal breathing", then copying everything over to the magnetic sound strip on the side of a roll of 8mm film, which he runs through the washingmachine and beatboxes to and runs the whole thing through autotune to make his music.

Are there any well known artists who still don't use the software, though?

Yes. Look at my list.

I meant artists who have had single hits. There were some popular alternative artists on your list, some of whom have popular albums, but not many which currently top the song charts.

You said "I've been heavily put off most music since the 2000s due to the high use of Auto-Tune", though, without accounting for the fact that not all music is in the top 40 charts. You said that you've been put off by most music, even though the vast majority of stuff being done today does not use autotune.

Also, who actually gives a **** about the top 40? Besides all the people who actually give a **** about the top 40, of course.

Anything mainstream will have some sort of sound editing.. Welcome to the modern music industry.

The only music is popular music guys

Get with the ****ing program

Did any of these songs or albums have Auto Tune incorporated into them? You can look them up if you haven't heard them before...

*All Loved Up - Fish (2014)
*Bridge Burning - Foo Fighters (2011)
*Delicate Matters - Patti Rothberg (2000)
*Leaving New York - REM (2002)
*Fifth Fret - The Connells (1996)
*Come Home - Placebo (1996)
*American Idiot - Green Day (2005)
*Heroes Never Die - Mostly Autumn (1998)

Why don't you look them up and tell us. Most people here don't really mind auto-tuning. My only beef with it has nothing to do with it's use, and I'm not gonna derail your thread complaining about it.

I just feel that it seems a little fake, and makes me feel sorry for those who do not use it. I could theoretically look it up, but very little will give the answer unless the artist is very well known...

Do you have a problem with guitar pedals?

What about artists who use autotune to enhance the music and have it become an instrument in itself a couple very popular examples would be Kanye and The Flaming Lips.

Also I'd make a big list, but Dead Channel pretty much covered that.

Do you object to artists who use things like compression or limiters or reverb or multi-tracked vocals to enhance their recordings?

Not especially, no. But these could always be created since the dawn of modern music. I don't really regard pedals and reverb as cheats in the same way.

Have you noticed how those guitarists with their fancy-shmancy electric guitars and distortion whatchamacallits let notes ring for, like, forever? They aren't even playing. They just hold them and try to look cool. The guitars basically play themselves. Damn phonies.
Now a nice acoustic guitar, preferably with intestine strings, that takes real talent to play.

Why not? And why would using a tool to produce a desired sound be considered a cheat?

I don't like auto-tune, but I know for certain I hear it in some of the music I like. But really, I can't say much that hasn't been said already, so...

I was just trying to find stuff that is likely to have a more timeless feel (Autotune will probably become dated like synth in the 80s), and much currently out feels like there is no variety. Maybe it's just that I have a more 90s taste in music

Well that's not fair there are countless artists still using synths and the such, so I'm not really sure what you're getting at.

I don't really understand how 90s music fits into your search for stuff with a timeless feel. There's plenty of music from then that sounds very 90s.

But there wasn't quite as much in the 90s, and still it manages to feel the most timeless era from my view.Could you name some stuff that sounds very 90s?

All of Grunge pretty much? And Britpop? And 90s Techno and Dance stuff is very much of its time.

Spice Girls, anything extrmemly popular around that time like Michael Jackson, Mariah Carey, TLC, etc. All of those post-grunge bands in the late 90's like Candlebox, Staind, even Nickelback (although that was later). And especially nu-metal i.e Limp Bizkit and Korn.

All of that too.

Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Stone Temple Pilots, Soundgarden, Bush, Oasis, The Verve, Blur, Digable Planets, A Tribe Called Quest, Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg, Tupac, Rage Against the Machine, Korn, Limp Bizkit, 311, Sublime, The Crystal Method, The Chemical Brothers, TLC and PM Dawn are some big ones that come to mind. I could come up with plenty more.

Lmao wait synths are "outdated"?

Yeah anyone who uses them is apparently outdated.

The 90s had some of the cheesiest music ever.

Close enough.. Enjoy this 10 hour remix special.