Larry caught up with Manny Marroquin at Studio La Fabrique in France during a Mix With The Masters session.
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Tape Op Magazine Presents: Let's Play the Recording Game!
by Larry Crane
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How Did Tape Op's Owners Meet? Find Out!
by Larry Crane
So here it is. The fateful letter that relentless talent scout and A&R honcho John Baccigaluppi sent to my band Vomit Launch back in 1988. Little did we know that soon we'd be holed up in his studio making records, and less than a decade later...
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Pitchfork TV? ADD?
by Larry Crane
Pitchfork TV (some spinoff of the horrible, snotty music crit site) has launched a series called A>D>D. "The title for the series is based on the ADD/AAD/DDD codes that appeared on compact discs in the late 80s and early 90s, in which ADD...
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Video Premier: Adrian Quesada on "Mentiras Con Cariño"!
by Geoff Stanfield
You saw it here first! In this video, we step into Adrian Quesada's (Black Pumas, Grupo Fantasma) Electric Deluxe Studio for an in depth breakdown of "Mentiras Con Cariño, the single from his latest release Boleros...
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Silver Sound's 3rd Annual Music Video Film Festival + Band Battle
by Larry Crane
Submissions are now being accepted for Silver Sound's 3rd Annual Music Video Film Festival + Band Battle, taking place on January 10th, 2012 at Brooklyn Bowl. Silver Sound is a studio in NY that provides production, post-production, and live sound...
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New Jack White: No Name
by Geoff Stanfield
Larry interviewed Jack White back in Tape Op #82, and we went inside his Third Man Records pressing plant in issue #127. White just released his sixth solo album, No Name. It is a great listen filled with whisps of Zeppelin, swamp blues, Detroit...
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A Treasure Trove of Acoustic Information
by Larry Crane
My pal Ethan Winer is half of the company Real Traps and hosts a page of all sorts of articles and information about acoustics and control rooms at this site: Real Traps One of my favorite pieces nearly ended up in Tape Op Magazine but after I...
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Gear Update: Standard Audio Stretch
by Geoff Stanfield
Since putting a pair of these modules in the rack it is has been a struggle to choose whether or not they go on the vocal or the mix. The vocal ususally wins, but it's a tough call. It doesn't take much to give your lead or bgv's that special...
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Could 192k Simply Make Good Common Sense?
by Allen Farmelo
As we exit the era of digital audio data compression and begin the ascent into higher sample rates for consumer consumption (via multiple platforms, though most popularly Neil Young's PONO system), we are finding ourselves as a community of...