Geoff Stanfield

The Grateful Dead show at Merriweather Post Pavilion in Columbia, Maryland on June 30th, 1985 has a star next to it on many Deadheads' lists. The 14,000 capacity venue, designed by Frank Gehry...

The sunshine memories of a long-lost Laurel Canyon have continued to seep into Beck Hansen's bones and reflect back through a reverb-soaked pool, morphing into the shape of song forms and sheets...

This new release from Adrian Younge is a modern day Afrobeat offering that has some modern sensibilities, but a foot firmly planted in the era of the genre's classics from Fela...

My studio is a one room setup. Most of the work I do there is mixing, but I also track a fair amount of overdubs, and for projects on a slim budget...

There are so many recreations of classic microphone designs, it can sometimes be confusing. I have used inexpensive copies of Neumann U 87s that...

What a cool idea: a microphone housing that has both a ribbon element and a large diaphragm condenser perfectly aligned to eliminate phase issues. It...

Although the album title is listed as simply Weezer, it is being referred to as The Gold Album, due to its, well, gold cover. The record has big, loud, and sometimes abrasive guitars...

Vinyl records may not be the most convenient way to listen to music, but I am convinced they are the best way to listen to music. I am more intentional about what I want to listen to, and I sit down...

If I was forced to write four word review of Jack White's new album, Frozen Charlotte, it would go like this: Heavy, grooving, fuzzy, classic.

Jack White has a knack for keeping...

We interviewed British psychedelic rock band Temples back in issue #107. Their 2014 release, Sun Structures, stayed in the CD player for months, and I have followed them loosely since. The...

I’ve reviewed a ton of JZ microphones, and I have yet to come across one that was not a well-built and useful tool in the recording studio. Amethyst...

The original release of the Grateful Dead's Steal Your Face album in 1976 was largely panned by fans. The mix was muddy, there were weird phase anomalies, and hardcore Deadheads were perplexed...

Uh-oh Shaggy, hide the checkbook. I was largely unaware of WaxPoetics until I saw they were hosting an auction of some of Jimmy "The Senator" Douglass' items. What caught...

We’re proud to announce the upcoming publication of a new Tape Op book, coming in September of this year! Titled, Making Music: Conversations With Record Producers, it will be published by our pals...

Radial Engineering has made built-to-last solutions that meet everyday studio and live needs for decades, and their new SGI Stereo instrument...

What begins as a simple acoustic guitar track reminiscent of Nick Drake quickly morphs (unavoidable pun) into a world that let's the listener know that Ed O'Brien has spent time in a band...

My vinyl copy of the Grateful Dead's classic Workingman's Dead is a little hammered. I think I bought it at a garage sale about 30 years ago. It has someone else's name written on it....

1956 was a pivotal year in the music of Miles Davis. It consolidated his "First Great Quintet" which included Red Garland, Philly Joe Jones, Paul Chambers, and John Coltrane. To make good...

Moses Sumney, interviewed in Tape Op#125, has new music out in the form of a collaboration with composer Joseph Shirley (The Mandalorian, The Book of Boba Fett and Creed III) for the soundtrack to...

Wait, what??? The Ramones first album just turned 50! A record made by four young men from the Forest Hills neighborhood in Queens, NY, has gone on to be one of the greatest punk rock records of...

For years, the Sony MDR-7506 headphones were in studios everywhere. I found them to be incredibly bright, but many of my friends used them regularly...

I have been fortunate to spend significant time using mics from Earthworks Audio. From their QTC omni line, the budget-friendly ICON USB mic [Tape...