Since founding this magazine 23 years ago, it's been interesting to me the many ways Tape Op reflects my own journey through music and audio, but also the many facets in which it doesn't. Sure, I own and run a professional studio, just like many of the people we interview, and it grew out of a small basement studio in my home, as do a portion of our readers and some of our interviewees. Catherine Vericolli and I share many of the same hurdles in running a studio in a smaller market, but when I compare my experiences mixing records,