
James Beaudreau is a former member of the Billy Nayer Show (1998-2003) and startedWorkbench Recordings- a netlabel, blog, and recording studio in NYC. They release one track every Tuesday along with artwork and texts about the creative process, recording process, and other experiences of the creative recording artist. "Most of the audio posted so far was recorded in my project studio, in the spare room of my apartment. The whole setup: Mac Powerbook, ProTools 003 Rack, 3 cheap mikes, 2 cheap preamps and a few good plugins (by Massey -- next to Pro Tools and my Mac the best money spent so far). I monitor on Yamaha HS50s and Sony MDR-7506 headphones. We're not going to win any awards for high fidelity, but I think we're achieving some effective recordings with very minimal gear. Plus, Scott Hull and I have set up an arrangement to haveMasterdiskmaster all of the Workbench tracks starting in January. The music on Workbench is going to benefit tremendously from this, of course. And Masterdisk is looking forward to getting involved in the netlabel world.
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December 24, 2009
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 vid...

December 24, 2009
Ronan's Recording Show features Jerks Behind Tape Op mag
BY Larry Crane
Our pal Ronan Chris Murphy does this cool "TV" show on his site,http://ronansrecordingshow.com, andthe most recent oneis with me and John Baccigaluppi...

November 3, 2009
Vinyl Lives?
BY Larry Crane
James Goss has interviewed many independent record store owners across the country to see how they stay in business and what they sell. Every month a ...

October 26, 2009
MICS FEATURED IN THE BEATLES?: ROCK BAND? VIDEO GAME
BY Larry Crane
So I just noticed an email in my inbox from a PR person with the headline: "XXXXX MICS FEATURED IN THE BEATLES?: ROCK BAND? VIDEO GAME". What's next? ...

October 21, 2009
Damian Wagner and the Sound of the Earth?
BY Larry Crane
Ina previousblog post, we saw the beginnings of this project.Damian Wagnerwas in issue 64 - here's a crazyprojectwhere he's amplifying the sound of th...

October 17, 2009
Meeting Your Maker
BY Larry Crane
Well, not my maker but the man behind the baby that is our RND5088 console at Jackpot! I got to spend a little time (and a photoshoot) with Rupert Nev...

October 7, 2009
This happens EVERY week
BY Larry Crane
I didn't do this video. But the guy who did must be spying on me. You can replace the style of music with any style, but the conversation is the same....

October 7, 2009
Nashville Recording Summit Nov. 13-15
BY Larry Crane
Tape Op contributor, Chris Mara, has organized anamazing studio eventcoming up. I wanted to go but sessions have stopped me. If you can make it, this ...

October 2, 2009
The solution, clearly, is more dissonance
BY Vijith Assar
It's notIdol, technically, butAmerica's Got Talentand itsdentally-impaired overseas cousinare still franchises helmed by Simon Cowell, who I think we ...