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Hello, welcome to the Arden Labs podcast.

My name is Bill Kennedy and our special guest today.

All the way from Boston is Mark Bates.

Hey, Mark.

How's it going?

Good, good.

It's great to see you again.

It's been way too long with all of us kind of being stuck at home. I miss it. I miss it. It's horrible. It really horrible. But for those of you

on YouTube, you can really see what Mark's been his COVID project. I'm going to call it

the COVID project. Is that it? This music room that he's

built behind it. It looks fantastic. Well, I've actually had the studio for a while now.

I went to Istanbul, no, sorry, not Istanbul, Budapest, maybe four or five years ago with Matt

Eminetti for CraftCon. And we just talked to music the entire time. And when I came back, I decided that's it. I'm going to gut out this old room in the basement and make a studio. Wow. Yeah. It looks fantastic. Well, thanks. Yeah. I mean, you can't see the really cool stuff, which is on this side of the camera, all like the preamps and all the cool stuff. And then there's a live room next door as well and you're able to record and produce everything down there right have you

done any of that yet have you have you produced anything absolutely i've been i'm halfway through a

master's program at berkeley college of music right now so i've been that that's really been my COVID project.

Once we got locked, once we got locked down and I couldn't travel every other week, which is

pretty much, as you know, like, it's what we did. We were always on the road. It's something I've

always wanted to do, but I couldn't because I was on the road. Like you need to be in a studio. You need to record stuff like, you know, I was doing, you know,

up till three o'clock in the morning on some courses, like every single night, you know.

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