​Founded by Midland, Texas residents in 1973, Rebuilding Together fixes homes, shared community spaces, and nonprofit facilities in disrepair. Originally called Christmas in April, its initial members devoted that month to addressing the home repair needs of local residents. However, as it gained recognition for its work and expanded it services, it rebranded as Rebuilding Together in 1988 and moved its headquarters to Washington, D.C.

As of 2023, Rebuilding Together accomplishes its work through more than 120 affiliates across 38 states. It uses an affiliate area’s annual median income (AMI) to determine candidate eligibility, limiting recipients to those making at most 80 percent of that amount. It performs its work through events like Kick Off to Rebuild, occurring annually before the Super Bowl, where volunteers in the host city for that year’s Super Bowl fix properties owned or rented by local older adults, families with children, or individuals with disabilities. Consistent with its roots, Rebuilding Together’s National Rebuilding Month, held every April, is when a majority of its work takes place, culminating on the last Saturday of the month.

​The quality of a music recording derives from various factors, and goes way beyond the quality of the microphones used in the recording process. The distance the singer or instrumentalist sits away from their mic, and the angle of its orientation, will affect sound clarity and volume. By experimenting with distances and angles, and using a live producer mode on recording software, performers can maintain a volume which is loud enough to hear, but not loud enough to create crackling or popping noises in the recording.

The recording location will also affect sound quality. An acoustically treated room, using equipment like acoustic panels, will have less ambient noise, lessening the need for noise reduction in postproduction, which may negatively affect the music’s sound. Recording while wearing headphones, as opposed to using speakers, eliminates the feedback they often create.

After production concludes, certain mixing programs, tools, and techniques can enhance the recording. Listening to an entire track at different volumes and with varying quality earphones and earbuds to simulate audience members’ listening gear can help producers balance volume levels at low, medium, and high decibels. Mute and solo track functions enable the isolation of individual tracks, and can be used to clearly show how each track is contributing to the entire mix, and where it fits in overall.