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How to Use T-Pain's Auto-Tune in GarageBand

by Lee Bains on September 21, 2009 at 08:31 AM


You've probably never before heard this from your grandparents, parents, uncle, older sibling, the burnout dude at the record store, or that guy with the Prince Valiant/Johnny Ramone haircut hanging out in the corner of your favorite dive bar, but -- over the years -- music has changed. Even more than musical styles, themselves, the processes and equipment associated with recording music, particularly at home, have evolved. When we were kids, we'd record to boomboxes. Later, we graduated to four-tracks. Eventually, once Macs entered the mainstream, we moved along to the program GarageBand, which proved easy to use, even for lo-fi luddites.

Just as a four-track enabled Beck to hit the big time, some home-recording savant might soon have a career of T-Pain proportions, thanks to Download Squad's instructions for using Auto-Tune in GarageBand. As typical of Garageband, the four steps are remarkably intuitive. As for hipping you to this undeniably awesome how-to, don't mention it. Just be sure to thank Switched when you're accepting your Grammy for 'Euro-Trash Dance Single of the Year.' [From: Download Squad]

Tags: auto tune, AutoTune, diy, garageband, home recording, HomeRecording, mac, music, recording, top

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