Pro Tools was clearly designed with the latter model most prominently in mind, and since Pro Tools is now the industry standard, radio & the pop charts reflect the current domination of that model in our ideological landscape. Songs you’re likely to hear on the radio — that Justin Timberlake song, or that kick-ass Janet Jackson “find someone to call my lover” song from a few years ago that I still can’t get out of my head — are the products of dozens or hundreds of hours spent in front of computer terminal adjusting volume levels, piecing together different vocal takes, and trying out different filters on every sound used in the recording of the song. For convenience, let’s call this way of thinking about the making of a pop song the Multiple Dwelling Residency model. OK: hands up, everybody who thinks I’m about to complain that this model isn’t true to the original spirit of rock and roll or something. Right, then. You guys have to stay after school. Those kinds of rants are a dime a dozen. What I want to do is write about the Flying Guillotine Ninja Master of the Multiple Dwelling Residency Model. The guy who gave Phil Spector a run for his money when it came to changing the way people made pop records. Ladies, Gentleman, birds of the air & monkeys in the trees, I give you Mr. Richard Carpenter.