hey, how come my links don't show up? am I that much of a noob that I can't even post links?

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And now, I can't even post this stupid reply to myself. I suppose slashdot thinks I'm trying to spam, or post something off topic...

I haven't posted anything on slashdot in a long while. I must agree that music production is a totally different beast these days compared to 20 years ago or even 50 for that matter. Anyway, I really like electronic music as well as acoustic music (which pretty much sums up all music right?)

anyway, if this is a shameless plug that only a few people will ever read, then so be it.

go slashdot my websites and download some free tunes!

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post script - I think AT&T has weak spots in their coverage plan.

If you write that you love Slap-Chop, and the Slap-Chop company either gave you money or a free product, you need to let people know that. It's called disclosure. If you bought a Slap-Chop with your own money, and you love it, you have nothing to worry about. Nobody is going to come after you claiming anything, because you probably aren't that important, and even if you were a celebrity or something like that, it's still your personal unbiased opinion. An good review should always be neutral and in the best interest of the consumer, not the manufacturer. At least this is what most people expect when researching whether or not they should invest in a product. If you are a person who regularly reviews items and you either get to keep the product or get cash for giving glowing reviews to said product (i.e. giving 5 stars instead of 3 stars), then you and that company are misleading consumers. Especially if you don't disclose your ties to the manufacturer. In other words, it doesn't matter if you are giving an opinion or a review, what matters is that you are honest in disclosing any gain received by expressing those opinions or reviews. Besides, at the end of the day, aren't most reviews still concluded with an opinion such as "The Bottom Line"?

A Wrinkle in Time may not be super math oriented but it introduces ideas like dimensions and space travel that may pique the interest of some of your students. Next thing you know, they'll be asking about tesseracts and such.

Maybe this would be one of those books that ranks lower on the extra credit points but could be enough to get some kids to just read.

As a student of music production, I can tell you WHO is doing the 'auto-tuning'... It's the producers and/or the mix engineers.

I have heard from professional producers that vocal tuning manipulation has been done with artists even as talented as Whitney Houston.

Usually, the pitch correction is very subtle, but I have noticed it on the radio on almost every song lately. (I'm not talking about the whacked out 'Cher' or even more crazy 'Lil-Wayne' effect, just some subtle help here and there to get rid of a little 'pitchiness')

Once, one of my instructors laughed at how 'terrible' Fergie was as a singer. He noted that on a Pro Tools instructional class where an original Fergie recording session file was used, the voice was 'horribly' out of tune! Of course, this particular instructor had a weird form of perfect pitch that prevented him from enjoying almost anything more than a few cents out of tune... but still...

Oh, and I guess my point is that there are in fact more people doing this than you might think... including plenty of indies! It's not just a corporate overlord thing... I myself use Logic Pro which has a pitch correction plug-in. I have used the plug-in plenty of times and I am not working for any major label. (I like to think I use moderation however)

Almost everybody who owns a studio or a DAW also has some sort of auto-tuning software (not necessarily Antares Auto-Tune). In fact, everybody who has GarageBand 2 or higher on their mac has pitch correction available pre-installed. It isn't as powerful as Auto-Tune, but it gets the job done if you want to sound like t-payne.

Anyway, if you think Auto-Tune is cool, you should check out the video on Celemony's Melodyne. Besides pitch correction, the software has a feature called Direct Note Access which lets you extract individual notes out of a sound file and correct them or even create completely new chords. You should also check out the guy's beard. That's what I call an Audio Engineer!

Well, after taking a look at her bio, I found that Hillary works for CNBC and MSNBC(make your own opinions on that). What trips me out the most is the fact that her 'blog' doesn't have comments. So she is essentially trying to get her readers 'locked in' to her own point of view. Maybe since her blog is only one day old she hasn't figured out how to add a comment feature (just like she can't figure out how to load regular non-iTunes AAC, AIFF or MP3 onto her iPod).

Well, we can all express our opinions on the main Huffington Post page and let Arianna know that Hillary is mis-infomed. Or that she should do some more research before she expresses her oppinions.

At least they posted a this reply by Howie Klein who seems to know what he's talking about. Not only that, but his reply allows comments.