Adding the Snowbiz factor

The Channel 4 News anchor, Jon Snow , decided there was only one way to get to the bottom of this The X Factor-AutoTune business – by hearing how the technology works for himself. Quite literally, in fact, when he recorded the opening verse of the Beatles' Hey Jude before feeding it through the clean-up technology . We're not suggesting you've got a bad singing voice, JS, but it seemed particularly apt that the studio you were recording it in was called the Hospital.