Today is International Cat Day (8/8), so we’re celebrating Sam Sam and Big Merp.




Monty thinks this F sharp is the perfect note for the current track he is working on with Dave Newhouse (The Muffins, Moon X, Manna / Mirage, and other projects).


Dahlia and Rob Robinson show off their amazing studio. We’ve seen many of these instruments in past posts featuring Rob, Dahlia, and/or Persephone, so we’ll leave those as an exercise to the reader.


Big Merp helps us with our recent I-710 video, adding his own part on the Nord. We also see an Arturia MiniFreak V and Delay Brigate, E-MU modules, a Golden Age Project compressor, and more.
You can see the video we were working on here


Last week we featured a “CatSynth pic” with Sam Sam, so it’s only fair that this week we feature Big Merp. As we’ve seen before, he likes to get up on the equipment while I’m working in the studio.

Merp is sitting on our “trusty red keyboard”, the Nord Stage EX. To the right, we see a couple of our more colorful modules, the Strymon Starlab and Dreadbox Euphoria. Behind him are a couple of audio processing units, a tube compressor, and a mic preamp (from Golden Age Project); in the left corner are the same E-MU modules that we saw with Sam Sam last week.
You can see our reviews/tutorials for the Strymon Starlab and Dreadbox Euphoria, respectively, below.


Persephone (aka “Mewskers”) is in the command chair of her very impressive studio. This studio is also used by our friend Rob Robinson and his industrial/noise/EBM project Order of the Static Temple (where we found this photo).
In front of Persephone is a Nord keyboard, to her left is a Sequential synthesizer, behind that a venerable Roland SH-101. We also see offerings from Behringer, Akai, Korg, and Ensoniq!
You can see more of Persephone via her tag.


Monty casts a judgmental look as he sits in front of the keyboards, including a Nord. From our friend Dave Newhouse.
More studio work today. Monty does not seem happy with a recent track.


Monty is getting ready to play some electric piano on his Nord keyboard. From our friend Dave Newhouse (The Muffins, Moon X, and numerous other musical collaborations).
Monty helping with some keyboard tracks for Michael Bass and my collaboration album. (I especially like Monty’s Fender Rhodes sound on this one.)
You can see our interview with Dave Newhouse and Jerry King below.
You also check out his music at https://davenewhouse.bandcamp.com/


Handsome Ilya poses with a Nord Lead (aka, the “Little Red Keyboard”) and a Moog Slim Phatty.
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