Values
Non-negotiables that guide decisions and behavior.
Why Small Studios Can Compete With Big Rooms
For a long time, the industry equated scale with seriousness. Bigger rooms, bigger consoles, bigger budgets. If you wanted a “real” record, you booked a “real” studio. That logic came from a time when records were slow, expensive, and infrastructure-heavy by necessity. That era is over. Small studios compete with big rooms because the work
Rock vs. Cancer, A Review
Every once in a while, something cuts through the noise and reminds you why you started doing this at all. I watched Rock vs. Cancer and I was in tears by the end of it. It snuck up on me like a flash flood. The film follows John Grabski III, a musician dying of cancer,
Why We Don’t Record Weaponized Messaging
A few weeks ago, I turned down what Might’ve been steady monthly work. The kind of reliable booking that any new business would normally jump at without thinking twice. I said no. Not because the music was poorly written. Not because we couldn’t technically handle it. I said no because the songs weren’t really songs—they
A Talk with Todd Rundgren
Picture this: It’s 1991. I’m 14 years old, standing in the Exploratorium in San Francisco with my dad, about to watch Todd Rundgren—the Todd Rundgren—give a lecture on digital recording formats. If you weren’t alive in 1991, let me set the scene: Digital recording was revolutionary and borderline mystical. Most people were still dubbing cassettes
Why Vibe Is King
We need to talk about the secret ingredient in great music. If you scroll through Instagram or peek into any audio forum, you’d think great records are assembled entirely from metal, glass, and circuit boards…
