Editor’s notes

A short letter from Tokyo, most weeks.

2026.11.14

A Number Can Be a Signature Too

2026.11.11

A Control Panel Is a Promise About Restraint

2026.11.05

A Modeler Only Needs to Fool the Room, Not the Microphone

2026.11.02

An Optical Compressor Behaves Like Weather, Not Math

2026.10.27

The EQ Finally Skipped the Sidechain

2026.10.24

The Tube Loyalist Finally Changed His Vote

2026.10.21

A Signature Model Is Someone's List of Complaints

2026.10.18

An Extra Inch of String Is a Decision, Not a Flex

2026.10.15

The Original Was Never the Point of the Reissue

2026.10.12

The Minimoog Was Always a Soloist

2026.10.09

A Buffer's Only Job Is to Disappear

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2026.10.06

Four Voices Still Need Four Separate Wires

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2026.10.03

The Microphone That Flatters You Is Not the One That Tells You the Truth

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2026.09.30

A Tape Machine Was Always a Distortion Pedal

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2026.09.28Column

This Week the Tools Were Told to Leave the Singer In

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2026.09.27

The Decision Already Happened Before the Plug-In

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2026.09.25

A Stage Monitor Is a Private Mix Sold as Hardware

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2026.09.21Column

The Pickup You String Through, and the Lawyer Who Blinked

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2026.09.16

The Panel at the Back Knows Where Everything Goes