I bought an Anteres AVP-1 vocal processor. Probably its main claim to fame is the "Cher" effect of that do you believe in life after love song, also featured in that other irritating yet catchy song, Blue. The effect is the result of real-time pitch correction gone horribly wrong on purpose.

The AVP-1 is supposed to handle live pitch correction. It works, but when it does I swear I can hear that wonky Cher sound. Sometimes it's just better to be off pitch. Fortunately it also has some other sweet features, like a decent compressor, gate, de-esser, two EQs, a nice vocal doubler, and some interesting (though I'm not sold yet) microphone modeling settings. I haven't used it yet in any recordings but I've been screwing around with it for two weeks now. I'll definitely be posting some podcasts during the winter break.

The site was unavailable for the last few days because Comcast did a major network upgrade. This happened a few years ago and it'll happen again I'm sure in a few more years. The good new is that I finally have a faster upload speed and that should result in faster downloads for users and those who subscribe to the podcast. The only bad news is that the site was down because they didn't tell me and the only way to figure it out is when things don't work. I've been slammed at work this week so I didn't notice until an hour or so ago. It's a five minute fix but then it takes up to 24 hours for the DNS records to update and let you find the site again.

If for some reason you've visited this site and thought, "hey why don't these bastards use podcasting?" then have I got a deal for you.

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TigerFight.net came into this world on August 11, 2006.

Here's the text from the "hello world" post:

The new site is up on a new server. There are still bandwidth restrictions, unfortunately. For now it's probably best to upload and/or download big files at night.

I'm very open to suggestions with this theme. I imagined it to be more like Battle Cat from He-man et al but this almost looks like we take ourselves seriously. Anyway it's better than the standard theme. It's very lightly modified (ripped off) from a Turkish Xoops group. I'll edit it more later.

The site theme has changed since then, and I think any discerning visitor can tell we don't take ourselves seriously. Rage on, Battlecat. Rage on.

So happy birthday TigerFight.net, ya crazy bastard!

Things have been pretty slow around here lately.

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