There's a guy on YouTube who extracts vocals from tracks and then analyses them and his favourite 'hit' is autotune. It seems he's discovered that live recordings are now being remastered including autotuning - so he's singled out Michael Buble and Simon and Garfunkel as examples of this 'terrible' destructive process and how dreadful it is.
He used an example of the orginal Art Garfunkel extracted audio where he did not hit the right note, but the later version had fixed it. I prefer the fixed version personally. He also used a bad example of Buble where clearly the autotune was excessively applied and it was switched off half-way through the live broadcast.
I've not had any examples of singers - especially the better ones where they've not wanted to take advantage. One opera singer, when shown the technique in comping had a very exciting time, highlighting the best phrases from each take - to a degree I could not do, so think very subtle phrasing on certain words. We put together the best out of lots of takes, and then she sat next to me and tweaked all the tuning. She was over the moon with the results, and actually a little shocked how certain words were slightly out of tune.
I'm very happy to condemn over use, or badly done tuning - but what studio artiste would want live work that was not as good?
Extracting vocals can be done now with decent quality in most cases, but then the artistes are getting slammed when the assistance is revealed?
Fair or not fair comment? What do we think here, being recording folk?
The fella with the videos is this one.