Motown & Memphis
Memphis >>> Sun/Stax Photos: A Journey into Memphis, Tennessee
by Larry Crane
Interviews
Doug Easley: His dad digs Loretta Lynn
by John Baccigaluppi, Larry Crane
Easley McCain Recording in Memphis has been a fixture in the recording scene since the early '90s, initially with local records with bands like the Grifters, and later nationally with bands like...
Interviews
Scott Bomar: Standing on the shoulders of giants...
by Larry Crane
Scott Bomar just turned 30, yet he's been playing bass professionally for 15 years, on stage and in studios. His band, Impala, churned out garage rock in the nineties, and eventually Scott's...
Interviews
Xopher Davidson: If this made a sound, it would sound cool
by Peter Nyboer
Interviews
Don Coffey Jr.: The Art of Guerilla Recording
by Tim Lee
Don Coffey Jr. admits that he stumbled onto his career as a studio engineer by accident. From the early 1990s until last year, the 37-year-old native of Knoxville, Tennessee, was the drummer and...
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Malcolm Cecil: TONTO Revealed
by Trevor Pinch, Inverse Room
As a longtime synth geek, I sometimes wondered whatever happened to TONTO, the modular behemoth featured on Stevie Wonder's great seventies records Talking Book, Innervisions, and Fulfillingness'...
Bill Skibbe & Jessica Ruffins: Behind the Gear with Key Club Recording Company
by Garrett Haines
Many of us would be fortunate to record national bands, build great sounding studios, or design our own line of pro audio gear in our lifetime. But over the past ten years Bill Skibbe and Jessica...
Monitoring: Fun with Monitoring Part 2: Issues Electric
by Garrett Haines
Monitoring is arguably the most important link in the audio chain. A while back we examined some basic monitor set-up issues. We noted that most people have decent enough speakers, but they don't...
Oktava Mic Mod: Modifying Your Oktava ML52 Ribbon Mic
by Dave Fisher
Ribbon microphones are finally coming back into vogue these days after a long, unexplainable hiatus from the recording studio. The sudden proliferation of Oktava's ML52 is in no small part due to the...
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Depth of Field
by Larry Crane
In recording albums, editing Tape Op, being a fan of music and teaching recording information and techniques to groups of home recordists one thing has become clear to me. The biggest problem that...
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22 251 Microphone
by Peluso | reviewed by Henry Robinett
I was spoiled rotten a few months ago. I did a session with a wonderful jazz vocalist with a smoky, classic voice. In past sessions with her I had used ribbons like the RCA 77-DX and AEA 44C, which...
Ela M 14
by Telefunken North America | reviewed by Larry Crane
Telefunken NA has been reissuing the classic line of Telefunken mics, like the Ela M 251 and U 47M, for the last few years (see our review of the 251 in issue #34). This mic, the Ela M 14, is the...
Expression SystemTM, K4 EqualizerT
by Taylor Guitars | reviewed by Pete Weiss
Ask any acoustic guitarist, and they'll tell you their biggest challenge: amplifying the dang thing in a live situation. The three perennial solutions all have serious drawbacks: soundhole pickups can...
Bravo II Disc Publisher
by Primera | reviewed by Andy Hong
If you're a recording studio, mastering facility, record label, professional photographer, or production facility that sells or otherwise distributes CD's and DVD's that you author yourself, you need...
inMotion Portable Speaker System
by Altec Lansing | reviewed by Garrett Haines
Frequent travelers know the challenges of taking music on the road. Headphones can be fatiguing. And with luggage space at a premium, hauling a decent set of speakers is out of the question. Up to...
Gemini dual-tube condenser microphone, ICIS single-tube condenser microphone
by SE Electronics | reviewed by Pete Weiss
Almost everyone knows that the last few years have ushered in a slew of new tube microphones. Low-cost ones, pricey ones, colorful ones, plain ones, transformer- balanced, and transformerless ones....
1968 Mercenary Edition
by Drawmer | reviewed by Mike Caffrey
The Drawmer 1968 Mercenary Edition is a 1RU version of Drawmer's popular 1969 compressor, without the mic pres. For me, the unit defines punch. It can also provide smooth leveling for the stereo buss,...
Central Station, CSR-1 Remote
by PreSonus | reviewed by Kyle Bittinger, Ramsey Tantawi
The Central Station is a talkback system and studio monitoring interface that routes audio from mixing or playback devices to multiple control room speakers as well as a studio or headphone cue...
i-5 Dynamic Instrument Mic
by Audix | reviewed by Larry Crane
The i-5 is Audix's attempt to offer a mic as versatile and rugged as the ubiquitous Shure SM57. Given the number of 57's out there and the amount of use they receive, that's a tall order indeed. The...
P2analog 2-Channel Microphone Preamplifier
by TRUE Systems | reviewed by Craig Schumacher
I first saw a TRUE Systems mic preamp when Roger King, our Tape Op Conference Technical Director, got the 8- channel Precision 8 right before TRUE Systems went national. As it turns out, Tim Spencer...
Compact 4 Desktop Audio Mixer
by Soundcraft | reviewed by Andy Hong
My living-room stereo system consists of a mish-mash of late-70's and early-80's hi-fi gear, a Rega Planar turntable, six in-ceiling speakers hooked up to a power amp, and a pair of ADAM Audio P11A...