NH’s Lynda Nelson ‘Forever in a Song’: New England to Nashville and back!

What a blast making this music was! When Lynda Nelson of Concord  NH came to my studio to start working on recordings of her songs, it became immediately apparent that putting her music in the hands of the legendary ‘Nashville Cats’ would be the way to go.  I knew Lynda’s exuberant positivity would bring out the best in Music City’s …

Mill Pond Music : the Voice of Matlab

Everyone in the world of science, technology, engineering and mathematics knows Mathworks and its offshoot Matlab.  Their tutorial videos are concise, engaging and entertaining, and MPM Studio right here in Portsmouth is happy to contribute its pristine voice-over signal chain to their outstanding quality.  The vintage restored Neumann U 87, arguably the most well-know and respected broadcast microphones ever made, along …

John Carew: Boston’s Celtic Folk troubador

John is one of the first musicians I met when I started exploring the idea of moving back to New England from Nashville.  I think it was in 2005, just after spending a wonderful week in upstate NY accompanying world-renowned fiddler Craig Duncan, a long-time colleague who was being inducted into the Northeast Fiddler’s Hall of Fame.  I stepped into a …

New Mic!!

I try not to get too excited about new equipment.  While the search for the utmost transparency between the heart of the music maker and the heart of the listener is a constant here at MPM Studio, the focus is always on the music.  But this new mic!! The Neumann U 47 is the holy grail of microphones-every instrument and voice on …