Current Trends
The extensive use of dynamic range compression has recently been bemoaned by critics as part of a "loudness war". In August 2006, Bob Dylan criticized modern recording techniques, saying that modern records "have sound all over them" and that they sound like "static". Those responding to Dylan's comments seemed to assume that he was referring to the trend of increasingly compressed music.
The use of the Auto-Tune audio processor for pitch correction has become pervasive in pop music since the late 2000s, and has elicited criticism.
In spite of the decreasing cost and increasing availability of professional or near-professional recording software and techniques, musicians and producers in some genres consciously set themselves against the idea of "overproduction" and attempt to make music with a rough or "lo-fi" sound; examples of this trend can be found in indie rock, trip hop and black metal.
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