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Do all remastered vocals in vinyl albums have been 'corrected" with auto tune?

Hello.

A few months ago, I switched to  vinyl albums from CD`s and streaming. After listening to quite a few remastered records, seems to me , IMHO, that a vast majority of  the vocals have been modified/enhanced with auto tune and pitch correction. There does not seem to be a false note, at all, even in live recordings.

Hence my question: are there albums that have been remastered , and vocals not altered in any form, so the authenticity of the artist music has been reproduced?

If so, where would I find these?

I listen to classic rock, classic music, opera and blues.

Thank you for reading.

rockanroller

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tylermunns
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Auto-Tune is a brand of software developed by Antares Audio Technologies, yet it the word is always used to mean, "digital pitch correction software," which is like referring to your vacuum as "a Hoover." 

It was made in the '90s to allow easy fixes to slightly off-pitch vocal takes. It became very famous when Cher's '97 hit single, "Believe," employed it for a different purpose, a distortion of the vocal to give it that digital warble-warble sound. 

There are several popular brands of digital pitch correction software other than Antares/Auto-Tune.

Do mastering engineers ever apply digital pitch correction to the vocals on finished masters? Is that even a thing?

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