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Originally Posted by djwayne 
It's the producer/mixer's job to make whatever artist he is working with, to sound as good as possible, with whatever tools he has available.
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Yup. And that sometimes means leaving a vocal alone (Bob Dylan, Neil Young) and sometimes making it "perfect" (Ashlee Simpson, Avril Levigne). But you can use autotune as an effect ( the vocoder-esque Cher technique) or make it transparent, but honestly, if we are sitting here talking about it, the producer screwed up. I don't care if they use it, but I don't want to hear it unless it is for an effect to help the song. Too many vocals today are so synthetic the emotional content ( which IS the point, right?) is gone. Might as well use robots or computer generated voices.
The difference between a good voice and a great one is not pitch - it is, and always will be, musicianship.