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Was excellent hanging out with fellow Texan mastering engineer, and all around mensch, Harold Larue for the start of this year's downsized SXSW. Started last night with a delish dinner at Ramen Tatsuya and then went next door to the iconic Saxon Pub, where we took in amazing sets by Cari Hutson & Good Company, and The Reverent Few. Followed the next morning with breakfast hosted Recording Academy at the Parkside, where I got to also meet & hangout with KUTX's awesome DJ Shani, who turned out (as one would expect given the high quality of her radio show) to be super friendly and super smart. Harold had to depart after that, but I took in Austin Chronicle's block party at the Hotel Vegas, where I caught sets by Égaux Sells and Free Hamze.

Check out TSM's SXSW 2026 photo gallery for photos we will be posting from SXSW 2026.

We have updated this page to using the old school Serendipity blogging software, so that we can make posts from pretty much anywhere now.
Here's a recent view of the studio, showing off on the desk to the right the also recently acquired Antelope Amari mastering interface. The Amari ties truly excellent sounding 384kHz capable analog-to-digital and digital-to-analog converters from our desk to our M4 MacMini main DAW, as well as to our monitoring systems. Also seen on screen is Ardour 9, the cross platform, open source DAW software we are using now for capture, editing, processing and assembly of our masters. With its recent update, allowing for better navigation and region (aka object) based fx, Ardour has added even more capabilities, on top of its already easy editing and huge plugin compatibilities. Onward & upward!