Tom Eaton / Sounds & Substance

12/04/2025

Great music from Stomp Rocket coming your way!

Stomp Rocket is a New England-based trio that delivers high energy foot-stomping dance music for contra dancing! The band consists of fiddler extraordinaire Dave Langford, DADGAD guitar monster and pianist Bethany Waickman, and tenor banjo and mandolin wild man Glen Loper. They’ve played for Contr...

12/01/2025

December 2025 News from Tom Eaton and Sounds & Substance

HAPPY DECEMBER!

11/19/2025

A semi-quick demo of the POLAR looper that exists under the radar inside Digital Performer. I use this constantly to make texture beds…but never with loops this short!

11/04/2025

Back at the helm at Imaginary Road. A quick walk through as I fire things up for day two with Randy Meek who came from Hawaii to make album #2 with Will and me.

10/28/2025

whats the deal with aftertouch?!

10/21/2025

Quick tour of my writing space!

10/21/2025

New solo piano music from the brilliant Heidi Osgood-Metcalf. I was honored to put the final touches on this one as mastering engineer. Available wherever you listen to music!

https://album.link/us/i/1841620434

10/14/2025

Quick video explaining what it is that I do!

09/15/2025

Big changes afoot. With much help and guidance from I’ve installed a pair of Genelec 8351b monitors and two 7360 subwoofers. It’s a totally different window into my work. I’ve had a sort of muscle car approach to monitoring in the past (lots of power, big cabinets, big drivers, and kinda dumb) and the new rig comes at performance from the other direction. The technology in the Genelec system is amazing, but the proof is the music in the room, and the clarity and resolution of this rig is blowing my mind (the low end is down .5dB at 20Hz, down 6dB at 16Hz!). A new chapter.

08/01/2025

New today on Bandcamp! “Found” collects 19 singles I released over the past two years and one brand new song into a twenty-track journey into my world of sonic exploration.

06/21/2025

The River Never Sleeps. My new one-hour ambient excursion is available now on Bandcamp. It’s name-your-own-price (including free) until the middle of next month.

06/19/2025

Back in the office after a quick trip. Working on new Masako music…coming soon!!