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Producer/Engineer Scotty Hard (Scott Harding) Needs Your Help

by Geoff Stanfield

(text from the Scotty Hard Trust website): Scott Harding is a highly accomplished New York City based music producer, engineer, and performer. Over the course of 20+ years, his rich and varied career has taken him to Africa, Europe, North America...

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Learn Recording, the Hard (and Rewarding) Way

by Dave Simonett

When I was younger and flat broke, I was offered a place to stay in my friends' house. It was a room in an old, unfinished basement, and I thought it'd be nice to have some walls. Being without funds to hire anyone, I decided I could probably...

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Milennia Media Job Opening

by Geoff Stanfield

Millennia Media Audio Repair Technician job opening Audio Repair Technician needed for permanent, full-time position.  Must have analog and digital repair experience. Design engineering chops a plus. Millennia in Northern California, near...

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Larry Crane at Wordstock, Portland, OR, Nov. 8

by Larry Crane

That’s right, somehow a lowly engineer and magazine editor that can’t even type has been asked to read some excerpts from Tape Op: The Book About Creative Music Recording Vol. II and moderate a panel at world-renowned literary event,...

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Alan Parsons Art and Science of Sound Recording

by Larry Crane

I've interviewed and enjoyed Alan Parsons' company a number of times over the years, and a while back he even cornered me at an AES conference and videotaped a quick interview about Tape Op. He claimed to be putting together a video about recording....

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It's Not What You Know...

by Geoff Stanfield

Berklee College of Music sponsored a recent Tape Op newsletter and it got me thinking about music schools. In terms of my personal recording path, I learned on my own through trial and error and via mentors. You can read a little bit about that...

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John Simon - free live interview in Montreal!

by Larry Crane

My pal Howard Bilerman of Hotel2Tango studios in Montreal is hosting and interviewing for this excellent event. It's in conjunction with the fantastic PopMontreal music fest. OCTOBER 2nd, 4:30pm. The secret you get here is that "the following day,...

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Album Credits Are Just As Important As the Money We Make

by Larry Crane

Below is a Guest Post from Jim Janik: Album Credits Are Just As Important As the Money We Make (maybe more so) by: Jim Janik Have you ever googled yourself? I have. In fact, I have to. Like many freelancers in the music industry, it's just one of...

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Songatron with Jonathan Mann and the Spinto Band

by Larry Crane

Jonathan Mann is the "song a day guy" of Songatron. Since January 1st 2009 he's posted a song and video a day. Septemeber 28th 2011 he'll have recorded 1000 songs. Wow.  In June Nick Krill and Thomas Hughes of The Spinto Band joined up with...