One tidbit: Paddy is the only one that doesn't need the pitch corrector when they are recording.

Paddy = Patrick?

That tidbit annoys me to no end -- the idea that anyone "needs" pitch correction. I'm sure they weren't using it on their first few albums and those sounded great, so whay do they need it now? Bah!

Yeah, Patrick. And, yeah, it's only on the last few albums that they've been using pitch correction.

Where's Tina?

Finally home.

Thanks for the rec, erin, I will iTune it up in a bit.

Hec, I hope you did not send the mix CDs cause they are not here - and I've been gone longer than I expected to be and didn't stop the mail for the whole time. Will cry if you sent them and someone grabbed them.

Jon, I've been listening to the Slack album a lot as well - served me well on my many bus trips while I was on vacation. Glad I mentioned it here.

Yay that everyone is loving Hayden's Air We Breathe mix (and yay for liner notes for it). It made me run right out and buy everything I could by Spoon and Knife in the Water.

Hope everyone here had musically satisfying weeks. I only survived the last two days sitting in a waiting room in the U.S. Embassy in Mexico City due to my walkman, mixes (both mine and Buffista-made) and the Beatles. Let's just say I should have kept my passport as safe as I did my Walkman and mixes.

Speaking of Mexico, not so many record stores down where I was. But if you want some pirated JLo CDs for $1 a copy, it's the place for you. I did get to hear hours upon hours of authentic mariachi though, which was unbelievably fun.

Much much fun was had in Mexico, but I am so happy to be home.

I should really finish unpacking (almost done), catch up on other stuff, etc. but I am going out to get Season 6 DVDs because I am a bad, bad person. I know you'll all understand.

The synchronicity of Buffistas freaks me out, I just heard the new Sloan album last night. Lurrrv it.

Pitch correction is used in a variety of ways in the studio. It's a time worn trick to use an Eventide Harmonizer (Which is a type of pitch corrector) to thicken vocals. It's called the magic 99, bascially you set the thing to harmonize and then just slip it to 99%, so that it's almost recreating the same sound. It adds a bit of "grit" to the vocal and thickens it up a touch. Also can help it cut through the music arrangements at times.

So, pitch correcting doesn't always mean someone can't carry a tune in a bucket.

It adds a bit of "grit" to the vocal and thickens it up a touch.

I know the "thickening" thound of which you thpeak and it thickens me with the thickness of a thousand thunthz.

Hec, I hope you did not send the mix CDs cause they are not here - and I've been gone longer than I expected to be and didn't stop the mail for the whole time. Will cry if you sent them and someone grabbed them.

No woman no cry. Rather berate me since I have been frazzled return guy and feckless when it comes to mailing things this week. However, I am hoping against hope that I can mail large batches of things out tomorrow, and your package should include a complete set (4) of the wedding CDs, just for you in the land of unemployment.

Robert Quine passed away. No details yet.

I broke my no CD buying phase. This weekend I came across a $10 sale and bought the following:

David Gray - White Ladder
Foo Fighters - There is Nothing Left to Lose
Pink - Can't Take Me Home
Wilco - Being There
Lisa Stansfield - Biography
White Stripes - White Blood Cells
Modest Mouse - Good News for People Who Love Bad News
The Vines - Highly Evolved
Christina Aguilera - Christina Aguilera
Run-DMC - Greatest Hits

The Vines - Highly Evolved

I have this on mp3. It's pretty good stuff. "Autumn Shade" is lovely. And "Get Free" still rocks.