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New Tape Op Video Series

by Geoff Stanfield

We are excited to announce Creative Recording With Tape Op. This video series covers a wide range of recording and mixing topics, concepts, and solutions. We look forward to sharing these conversations with you in the coming weeks and months, but...

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Oct. 4, 2024

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New Tape Op Video Series

by Geoff Stanfield

We are excited to announce Creative Recording With Tape Op. This video series covers a wide range of recording and mixing topics, concepts, and solutions. We look forward to sharing these conversations with you in the coming weeks and months, but...

Oct. 4, 2024

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New Album from Caribou: Honey

by Geoff Stanfield

For his new release, Honey, Caribou's Dan Snaith (Tape Op #35, #105) wears his Detroit techno influences on his sleeve, and uses AI to explore and reimagine vocals as well as manipulate his voice, to create an album of dance tracks that...

Oct. 1, 2024

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New Ancient Farmers Album: Seventh Heaven

by Geoff Stanfield

Steve Daubenspeck and Greg Freeman are Ancient Farmers and their new album is called Seventh Heaven. Greg Freeman was featured in Tape Op #1, and had previously recorded two albums for Tape Op founder Larry Crane when he was in the band Vomit...

Sept. 8, 2024

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Alan Sparhawk Releases White Roses, My God

by Geoff Stanfield

The husband and wife partnership of Alan Sparhawk and Mimi Parker will forever be remembered for their work in the band Low. Their remarkable vocal harmonies always told a story of a long and storied relationship that went far beyond the music and...

Sept. 20, 2024

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Herb Alpert: 50

by Geoff Stanfield

We interviewed Herb Alpert in Tape Op #140, and he hasn't slowed down since. He just released his 50th album, aptly titled 50. It is yet another prime example of the lounge pop genre he all but invented with The Tijuana Brass starting in the...

Sept. 20, 2024

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New Music From Sarah Jarosz

by Geoff Stanfield

Singer, songwriter, and stringed instrument master, Sarah Jarosz, has just released a deluxe edition version of her criitically-acclaimed album, Polaroid Lovers. This edition features two new songs, "Wildflowers in the Sky" and "Just Like...

Sept. 18, 2024

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Ignore These Rules

by Larry Crane

After the internet came along and made sharing of information easier, I noticed an interesting trend. Maybe it's because of that misguided impulse of "doing it the right way" that beginners attempt to...

Sept. 18, 2024

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Intro / TOC #163

by John Baccigaluppi, Larry Crane

I never went to school to learn how to become a recording engineer.* But, regardless, some studio fundamentals and skills took me years to learn, and every time I did gain knowledge it was often under...

Sept. 15, 2024

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New Nilüfer Yanya LP and videos

by Geoff Stanfield

Nilüfer Yanya’s LP Painless was one of my faves of 2022 with its blend of guitar based songwriting, her unique singing voice, and forward leaning production and arrangements. I’m pretty over the Roland Jazz Chorus guitar tones, but...

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DIY Diffusors

by Brad Williams

While hardly a glamorous concept, room acoustics represent a critical link in the recording or playback chain. While comprehensive room design is a complex cocktail of science, math and chance...

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Build Your Own Spring Reverb

by Scott Hampton

I have been a big fan of spring and plate reverbs for decades, and over the past three years I have spent a significant amount of time diving into the wormhole of designing and building them,...

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DIY Reverb

by Nicolas Collins

In the disembodied world of today's computer-based multitrack mixing, one can spend a lot of time crafting a unifying sense of "space." Despite the dozens of reverb plug-ins and rack devices...

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