It is totally detectable, unless it truly is a one off tweak. But that is almost never what happens. Maybe a great vocal will get a tweak to save otherwise gr

It is totally detectable, unless it truly is a one off tweak. But that is almost never what happens. Maybe a great vocal will get a tweak to save otherwise great take, and that is fine. Good thing. But then the whole production sees similar things all over the place and it gets cleaned right up technically. Time, levels, the works right? And the energy is diminished, could be lost. Like fashion, this will all cycle in and out. Young people hear the humanity in music made prior to these and other tools and it appeals. Little things, like a change in tempo, small vocal errors, inconsistency, all add up in a track. I bet some time from now, could be as little as a decade, maybe two, we will look back at all this and chuckle. Like you say, there is nothing technically wrong with any of this tech. And it could all be used very differently from how it is today too. Recently, I have been going back through great live shows. Fantastic! And I still get that tingle from the realization someone delivered it live, to a crowd. And yeah, not so perfect, but oh so very human too.