• Yamaha HS4 Studio Monitors: Great Sound, Meh Packaging

    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…

  • Please Give Me the Power

    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.…

  • Why You Need ID3 Metadata For Your Song Files

    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…

  • Christmas come to stay: a holiday song

    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…

  • We love this beautiful glockenspiel!

    We love this beautiful glockenspiel!

    If you had asked me a few years ago if I’d be excited about buying a glockenspiel, I don’t think I would have had any kind of strong opinion. But I’ve been on the lookout for instruments like this now for a few months. A number of recent songs we’ve…

  • Can’t thump without my p-bass

    Can’t thump without my p-bass

    If you have to pull the pick guard from your instrument, you are likely facing some kind of malfunction, as I did recently. This is a standard, entry level Fender P-Bass. I’ve had it for at least five years, and it’s been a reliable instrument. So I was really surprised…

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