Articles
Feature stories, opinion pieces, and in-depth explorations from Tape Op Magazine
Analog Tape SP
<p><strong>This article is about changing your perspective.</strong> Regardless of your personal preferences between analog and digital recording medi...
Free Money?
<p>I am a visual artist. I was trained as a printmaker and worked with etching, screenprinting and lithography. My introduction to sound came during t...
Control Room Sound
<p>[ image wave1 type=center ]</p> <p>One of the most difficult challenges a mixing engineer faces is figuring out how to balance the low frequencies...
Digital Mixing
<p>I recently finished recording and mixing a five song EP that, for the first time, I transferred into a computer and mixed digitally. It was one of ...
Under The Radar
<p>[ image utr1 type=center ]</p> <p>A former co-worker of mine liked to use the phrase "It's a product of excellent quality." If I raved about a new...
Under The Radar
<p>[ image utr1 type=center ]</p> <p>I've been thinking a bit about sound quality lately. An acquaintance of mine observed somewhat arrogantly that a...
Phill Niblock
<p>[ image niblock1 type=center ]</p> <p>While most subjects of Tape Op interviews have discussed their interest in recording, Phill Niblock thinks f...
Brooklyn Studios
<p>[ image rare2 type=center ]</p> <p>Brooklyn, New York, has become a hot studio spot during the last few years. Free from the space crunch of Manha...
Introduction to Digital Audio
<p>Your ears are analog devices that convert sound waves into mechanical pulses the brain can understand. Your computer is a binary device, which mean...
The Making of Amateurism
<p>There's a new record out on Chapter Music of Melbourne, Australia, which collects the entire recorded output of Andrew Wilson onto one CD. Wilson's...
Recordings That Changed My Life
<p>We've all had this happen to us. We've heard a record or a song that really hits home. At the time we may not have known why or how or what it mean...