New Episode of Creative Recording with Tape Op: Drum Panning

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Tape Op Magazine Presents: Let's Play the Recording Game!

by Larry Crane

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Tape Op Staff Favs for 2021

by Geoff Stanfield

It's that time of year again where we go back through our digital listening histories or simply look over at the turntable to get a handle on just what we were enjoying this past year. There were a ton of great releases this year, many of them...

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Some Maybe Not-So-Obvious Items Every Studio Needs

by Larry Crane

Some Maybe Not-So-Obvious Items Every Studio Needs  In the past we've run a few columns about items every studio should have, like Sharpie pens and masking tape, but here I decided to look around me and think about all the items that aren't...

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Human Hearing Beats the Fourier Uncertainty Principle

by Allen Farmelo

This is a fascinating article about a brand new study in human auditory perception that is showing that there have been "naive" applications of mathematical formulas onto our understanding of human auditory perception. I cannot claim to...

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King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard Release New Album: Flight b741

by Geoff Stanfield

No secret that I am a big fan of King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard. They first caught my ear in 2017 with their Turkish Psych-Rock flavored album, Flying Microtonal Banana, and I have been a fan ever since. If you asked me what the definitive KGLW...

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Reaching Out

by Larry Crane

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,...

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Tuesday Night Recording Club

by Andy Hong

Brian Charles and his friends at Zippah Studios are recording in the style of past hits, and then detailing how they did it. It's a weekly series. The latest post, in which they take an original song by Aaron Perrino (The Sheila Divine, Dear Leader)...

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Ruadhri Cushnan (Mumford & Sons, Ed Sheeran) Video Interview

by Dave Middleton

With 3 number one albums in 2012, Grammy winning mix engineer Ruadhri Cushnan is at the top of this game. Shortly after Mumford and Sons' album "Babel" was awarded 'Album of the Year' at the Grammys, Ruahdri made time in his busy schedule to chat...

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Promote Your Music with Cassette Releases?

by Larry Crane

I just received the first promo cassette in a long time from Odessa Records' Shit Horse. Alright! Wait, what year is it? Fucking A. I have a cassette player in the basement, and I could go down there, grab it, plug it all in and give this a...