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Please Help Our Friends at Pyramid Sound Studios!

by Dave Middleton

The future of a world-class recording studio that has hosted recording sessions by David Gray, Anthrax, Ginuwine, Aaliyah, Bad Religion, Missy Elliott, Joe Bonnamassa, producers including Timbaland and Tom Dowd, Pulitzer Prize winning composer Steven...

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What Are Words For?

by Larry Crane

  We got this letter from J. Robert Lennon, a sometimes contributor here at Tape Op. I figured I'd better answer it. -Larry Crane "A thought struck me while I was reading Adam Kagan's very informative review of the Chandler Little Devil...

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The solution, clearly, is more dissonance

by Vijith Assar

It's not Idol, technically, but America's Got Talent and its dentally-impaired overseas cousin are still franchises helmed by Simon Cowell, who I think we can all agree has become somewhat of a figurehead for shitty pop music and...

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Well This Sucks: Recording in the Time of Covid

by Geoff Stanfield

By Justin Douglas When you hear a particularly moving piece of music, and you get that little chill that runs from the top of your scalp down your spine, that’s a specific network in your brain logging that music into your memory....

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Maybe you Should Worry more about Performance and not Recording?

by Larry Crane

I don't want to explore this concept with as many words as I might for a Tape Op "End Rant", but I had to dump this shit out of my mind immediately. Someone dropped me a line recently; "I'd like you to hear this record I worked on. We didn't use EQ,...

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AES Conventions - Looking Back/Looking Forward

by John Baccigaluppi

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...

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The Divine in Daniel Johnston

by Geoff Stanfield

Thanks for this guest post by John Morand I wasn’t surprised when I heard that Daniel Johnston had died. It was 9-11 and for me, there would always be a connection between Daniel and 9-11. In the days after the attack, when...

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End Rant #99: It's the Little Things That Count

by Larry Crane

Years ago John Fischbach, a well-established and respected producer/engineer, came to my studio to record an album that our mutual friend, Luther Russell, was producing. [See Tape Op #21.] In those days my studio, Jackpot! Recording, was a diamond...

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Grammy Nominations

by Geoff Stanfield

It's that time of year again! The Grammy nominations are out and it's always fun to see a bunch of folks we have interviewed in Tape Op on the list. Here are the nominee's for Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical: Lucky Daye...