Congratulations to both The Loveblisters & Tractor Pull Divas for being named in the Best Local Records of 2008 by the Phoenix New Times Magazine & congratulations to ME for producing them! Ha! You can view the article here. Also, I posted a detailed procedure on how to properly prepare a pro tools session for mixing by me (or anyone else for that matter). I did more mixing this year than any other so far & the main conclusion I’ve reached is that most people aren’t anywhere near as anal as I am. I know, crazy huh? In all seriousness though, I spent way too much time trying to decipher sloppy unorganized sessions & hunt down missing files & not enough time being creative on your mixes!!! Read the article so I can live to age 60 please. I love you all dearly.

So I’ve been working with Elastic Audio since it came out & although I think it’s a fantastic tool, I’m convinced it has a long way to go. I love how it allows me to “under edit” the performance, which is in stark contrast to beat detective, but circumventing all the potential glitches is really a drag. If anyone has found definitive method for using it on multi-tracks drums I’d love to hear about it. Through my own trial & error plus vast online research, I’ve settled on a method but it’s very tedious. In my opinion, this should work way better. Independently adjusting event marker sensitivity works great but the results are garbage. Please fix Digi, this is a seriously great tool & I’ll be all over it once it works better.

So this article was brought to my attention recently. Aside from the stuff about yours truly, I think the author is totally right on about these bands & I’m honored that my band was included in such an awesome list.