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!
The Decemberists' ninth album, As It Ever Was, So It Will Be Again, is out now. In 2003 I got a call from Colin Meloy about maybe recording his band, The Decemberists. Tape Op contributor, Adam Selzer, had already recorded some tracks for what...
Yup, we're finally back on track with clothing here at the US branch of Tape Op. Check it all out, plus back issues, at Good Mountain, our new supplier of direct mail order goodies for Tape Op.
We interviewed John Cale in issue #156 around the time of his previous release, Mercy. He has just released POPtical Illusion, a collection of synth and keyboard heavy tunes that carry a heavy, and at times angry message about the state of the...
Reader Brent E (bcengels at yahoo dot com) sent in some cool links about audio.
The possibility of and “acoustic cloak” is discussed. The future of studio soundproofing?
Music and Auditory illusions are discussed in the New Scientist
I was gonna run this in the letters section of issue #78 coming up, but I just felt it was too long to fit well. -LC
I just finished reading the letters section in the new issue [#77] regarding interns, and wanted to relate my experience. A couple...
At our Tape Op Party during SXSW last week the fine folks at Sound Toys announced and gave away a new plug-in - the Devil-Loc! You have to grab this before March 31, 2011. Act now!
Go here for the free Devil-Loc Plug-in
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Convention Report. Man, that old Disneyland hotel was awesome!
I'm in the process of moving and was cleaning my office earlier today. I have a large collection of vintage audio magazines and books that I use for clip art when working on Tape...
It's no secret that we are serious Pink Floyd fans here at Tape Op. We have interviewed Floyd drummer Nick Mason, producer/engineers John Wood, Bob Ezrin, Alan Parsons, John Leckie, Youth, and Joe Boyd, and, of course, the band's...