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 for now enjoy Episode #1, What Makes a Great Recording? Episode made possible with support from Burl Audio!
Yup, I sit at my computer all day editing articles, writing stuff for the mag and answering the ridiculous amount of emails that always seep in over the course of a day.
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Tape Op contributor, Chris Mara, has organized an amazing studio event coming up. I wanted to go but sessions have stopped me. If you can make it, this sounds like a lot of fun.
Tape Op Messageboard Thread and instructions Welcome to 1979 Studio
A couple of years ago I purchased a download package that a friend's band, Blue Skies for Black Hearts, was offering up. It was a generous offer, proceeds went towards a good cause, and the band is really fun (not to mention that the bandleader,...
Studio Engineering and Recording – School of Music, Dance and TheatreHerberger Institute for Design and the Arts at Arizona State University
The School of Music, Dance and Theatre at Arizona State University seeks an exceptional...
Here's a clip of a rare Rolling Stone interview with the Lizard King talking about making records around 2 1/2 minutes in.
“I could never produce ... because I don’t have the patience for it. I think that’s the main thing. Who's...
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...
Take a look/listen to the new video and single "Didn’t" (feat. Cavetown) from Sarah Tudzin, aka illuminati hotties, from their upcoming LP, Power.
Sadie Dupuis of Speedy Ortiz and Sad13, interviewed Sarah for Tape Op #145 and you can...
Eric Liljestrand remembers his friend and working partner Hal Willner
Hal and I spent countless hours, days, weeks, months in dark rooms all over creating some of the most original albums and film scores the world will ever hear. A solid third of...