Luca Pretolesi: Widen Vocal Mixes with Auto-Tune Pro

World-renowned mixing and mastering engineer Luca Pretolesi has multiple Grammy nominations and Platinum, Diamond, Billboard, and Golden Melody awards, predominantly pertaining to achievements in mix engineering and dance music categories. He's been sought out by major electronic and pop music names, including Major Lazer/Diplo, David Guetta, Blackpink, Carnage, and many others.

Here at the state-of-the-art Studio DMI, he takes us through his way of widening vocals by using two instances of Auto-Tune.

In this video, Luca explains vocal widening and how he applies it in his mixes to create a mix that fills the room with sonic perfection. Luca shows he's a pro by using TWO Auto-Tune channels at once! He blends the left and right to create a full, atmospheric effect - perfect for playing at a party, club or in good-quality headphones to immerse yourself in the music. Luca loves that you can "make the vocal wider without changing the main, dry vocal."

And how does Luca perfect his mixes? With Auto-Tune Pro. Until the recent release of Auto-Tune Pro X, Auto-Tune Pro was the most advanced edition of Auto-Tune. It includes Auto Mode for real-time correction and effects, Graph Mode for detailed pitch and time editing, and the Auto-Key plug-in for automatic key and scale detection.

Auto-Tune Pro also includes Classic Mode for the celebrated "Auto-Tune 5 sound," Flex-Tune and Humanize for more transparent and natural-sounding tuning, Throat Modeling for subtle or extreme vocal transformations, and Transpose for real-time pitch-shifting with automatic Formant Correction. Low latency processing lets you perform through Auto-Tune Pro in real-time on stage or in the studio, without worrying about distracting delay.

Some artists we've interviewed or seen tutorials from are set up with just a laptop and a midi pad, and some artists like Luca Pretolesi have a professional studio setup. The commonality between all of them? They use Auto-Tune Unlimited and Auto-Tune Pro for their plug-in and vocal effect needs.