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Catamount Veritas, September 2025
Volume 1, Issue 5 Greetings, and welcome to fall. It’s been a busy month and we are getting ready for the annual Production Music Association conference (PMC 2025) next week, so if you are going to be there and watch to network or talk music provenance, reach out to info@catamountmusic.com. How to get ahead…
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Catamount Veritas, August 2025
As always, we explore the crucial intersection of generative AI, artist rights, and sync music
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Catamount Music Commits to Media Authenticity with CAI
Joining the CAI underscores our dedication to ensuring the integrity and transparency of our artistic creations. The Content Authenticity Initiative is a cross-industry movement focused on restoring trust and transparency in the age of AI, providing an open and extensible approach for media transparency to allow for better evaluation of content. This partnership perfectly…
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Will Content Deals Kill the Sync Business?
Introduction Most sync music composers I know are working with libraries that have strict, no generative AI policies. This is to protect against infringement, and AI is just one of the ways libraries protect themselves. This has put a lot of composers into the mindset that they don’t need to worry about generative AI…
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How Many Guitars Do I Need?
Before I got into production music, this was kind of an academic question. I have actually only bought two guitars since starting the business. One is an acoustic resonator, the other a lap steel. I didn’t own any kind of either of these. Neither was very expensive, either-both were well under $500. But I…
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9 Tips for Better Guitarscapes
I’ve spent a few weeks now writing guitar soundscapes, or guitarscapes. I hadn’t written for this genre before, but as a lifelong guitarist, I figured it would be a good assignment. And it was, but I was greatly humbled by the task. I learned a ton and I’d love to share it. Here are…
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Yamaha HS4 Studio Monitors: Great Sound, Meh Packaging
I am one of the many people that has a very small personal studio space. It’s 14 x 14 with a closet and two windows, but the view is gorgeous. I needed small studio monitors for this room, and I took advantage of a Christmas special to get a set of Yamaha HS4s. We…
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Please Give Me the Power
This is one of those crossover stories. It’s about audio engineering, but also about reliability engineering. As an IT professional, I have worked with all kinds of electronic equipment, usually stuff that is either in or destined for a data center. And those devices all had one thing in common. Something that can be…
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Why You Need ID3 Metadata For Your Song Files
One of the things I learned at the 2024 Taxi Road Rally was just how important song metadata is. Scott Barker and Rabina Ritchie Barker, who own and operate TrackStage, ran a session on metadata that was a great primer. I went and did my own research after that. I also appreciate that it…
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Christmas come to stay: a holiday song
Enjoy this song from Catamount Music! This song was written, arranged, recorded, mixed, and mastered by Catamount Music in our beautiful studio in western Massachusetts. It’s fall right now, but the spirit of Christmas is right around the corner. This song has an interesting history. It was originally entitled “Christmas in California” and had…