Forty years ago, two aspiring audio engineering students met on their first day of class at UMass Lowell.

Since then, one has gone on to make records with a laundry list of the greatest rock, hip hop, and R&B artists, earning over 30 gold, platinum, and multi-platinum records. The other has won 18 Grammy Awards recording world-class orchestras and operas.

Yesterday, our chief engineer Mark Donahue got to welcome one of his oldest and dearest friends, producer, engineer, and educator Carl Nappa, to our Lowell studio.

From two audio geeks on a college campus to a room full of hit records and Grammys between them, talk about coming full circle.