The Eighties were a strange time of change for recording practices and for bands. Studios went from the extreme isolation of instruments and drums that were favored in the Seventies to the use of...
This man should need no introduction. At the height of "grunge-mania" he had recorded the records for Mudhoney and Nirvana that started it all. And he did tham fast and cheap. On the back of...
Tape Op gets quite a few letters and e-mails suggesting people that we should interview, and recently, J. Robbins had to be one of the most requested names by far. J. was in Jawbox for years, a...
Fugazi is probably one of the best rock bands on the planet at this point in time. Really. Their new album, End Hits is one of their best, proving that a band can grow over 10 years without...
Phill Brown has had a 30 year long career as an engineer, something most of us are barely even capable of imagining. And not only has he been working for a long while, he's worked with some of the...
Jennifer Herrema and Neil Hagerty have led the Royal Trux for a number of years now. They pulled a coup of sorts when Virgin Records dumped a lot of money on them, put out two albums, and then...
Neutral Milk Hotel began in the early 90's as a 4 track cassette project by Jeff Mangum. Since then, he's released a couple of albums on Merge records (On Avery Island, In The Aeroplane Over The Sea)...
As I did last time, I'm going to give you a few recipes for unconventional recording techniques. In the event that something turns out to be "conventional" (boring/old hat/duh!), please berate me...
Steve Albini has become a somewhat legendary figure in the recording world these days. Our pal, John, gave us these leftovers from an interview he did with Steve recently, and it provides a...
Sue Garner has been a member of many New York based bands over the years, Fish and Roses, The Shams, and currently, Run On. Generally she can be found playing bass and singing. After all those...
Rob and Tom have been recording records together for 10 years or so. Some of them, like Beck's Mellow Gold or the Foo Fighters debut (which they mixed) have done very well. Others, like...
Yeah. So I had heard of Dump, the bass player from Yo La Tengo, who did these great songs he recorded at home on 4 track. But I had never stumbled across any of his CD's until a bunch...
