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On Wed, 2005-12-07 at 00:34 -0600, Jan Depner wrote:

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> On Tue, 2005-12-06 at 14:47 -0500, Lee Revell wrote:

> > On Tue, 2005-12-06 at 06:05 -0500, Bill Allen wrote:

> > > I've been struggling with a technique problem. How do you get your

> > > vocals to sound good?

> >

> > Actually this reminds me of something that's been bugging me.  What's

> > that really digital sounding vocal effect that you hear on a lot of R&B

> > stuff these days?  It's all over that tune "I'm Sprung" that was on the

> > radio all summer, and in the Simpsons episode where they have a boy

> > band, on Ralph Wiggum's voice when he sings "love formation".

> >

>

>     Cher started that garbage about 4 or 5 years ago - it's pitch

> correction taken to extremes.

> 

Cher could not have been the first to popularize this.  I am pretty sure

that boy band Simpsons episode predates "Believe".
(BTW I can't stand the effect either)
Lee