withahip wrote:Yeah - I think it is that Lil Wayne guy who is making a career out of that effect.
There is a time and place for all types of gimmicks I suppose but some artists like this use it on every song practically. Kanye West used it on his SNL appearance and the Auto-Tune couldn't even compensate for his tin ear. It was just awful and you could tell he was struggling to make it work by the way he kept backing off of the mic.
Maybe I'm just getting old. When distortion guitar and digital delay and things like that first came out I'll bet there were plenty of guitar purists who criticized it for being gimmicks. You can make plenty of mistakes with effects like that and no one really ever knows because it just get buried in the whole wash of sound.
Get off my lawn