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Tony Rolando & Kelly Kelbel : Make Noise!

BY Alex Maiolo | PHOTOGRAPHS BY Rodent

It only makes sense that with a renewed interest in analog synthesis, modular synths would make a comeback. However, rather than the hulking beasts Keith Emerson tortured on stage, or pampered studio dwellers, like TONTO, the new Eurorack style systems are lightweight, portable and powerful, owing to the inclusion of modern technology, compact circuitry, and new ideas. Tony Rolando and Kelly Kelbel run Make Noise, a modular synth company in Ashville, North Carolina. Make Noise's "Pressure Points" Synthesis Module

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Remembering Terry Manning
Issue #169 · Sep 2025

Remembering Terry Manning

By Blake Morgan

Terry Manning [Tape Op#58] had already changed my life before I ever met him. Like many of us in the recording and record-making community, his work with Big Star, Led Zeppelin, ZZ Top, and Booker T. & the M.G.’s, along with countless others, had shaped my listening ahead of my even...