Tape Log

Blog posts by Larry Crane

Feb. 9, 2009

51st Grammy Awards

by Larry Crane

Okay, I'll admit I vote for the Grammies. Yup. Why? Besides the sometimes odd spectacle of the Grammy Awards, NARAS does some cool stuff in the music community (like the Seattle Studio Summit), MusiCares and the Producers and Engineers Wing. So I do...

Feb. 6, 2009

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...

Feb. 1, 2009

Modular Synth Blog

by Larry Crane

Check out Ross Healy's VICMODBLOG on analog modular synths. He interviews "people who build and sell modular gear and forgotten electronic musicians." Cool stuff.

Jan. 20, 2009

What to do with Studio Waste? Recycle More!

by Larry Crane

At Jackpot! we use the service from Greendisk. They send us a cardboard box and we toss used CD-R/DVD-R media, cords, old cell phones, cables and printer cartridges. A pretty cool service and not too expensive.

Jan. 19, 2009

Music Biz Changes and Links

by Larry Crane

Here's some links and stuff from a thread I started at the Tape Op Message Board forum: David Byrne interviews Thom Yorke about the Radiohead "In Rainbows" download in Wired Magazine. Pandora Radio is an internet radio site that allows the...

Dec. 10, 2008

Tape Op Microphone Reviews online!

by Larry Crane

Matt McGlynn over at the informative Recording Hacks site has a section devoted to Tape Op mic reviews. Not all of them are up yet, and we're not quite sure why he wanted to tackle this project (crazy? smart? nice guy?) but it's up there. Now I can...

Oct. 22, 2008

Behringer City?

by Larry Crane

Our compatriots over at Australia's fine Audio Technology magazine posted this video of a visit to Behringer City. See Video Here. It's a curious visit and Chris Holder offers some good insight into this man and his company. Thanks to Steven...

Oct. 21, 2008

Jackpot! Will have a new Neve soon!

by Larry Crane

By November 24th we will have installed a new Rupert Neve Designs 5088 console at my studio, Jackpot! Recording Studio, in Portland, OR. Excited? Of course. And look, no EQ, no preamps and no automation. Just pure, perfect analog mixdown heaven. You...

Oct. 17, 2008

Eno, Generative Music and Bloom for iPhone

by Larry Crane

I just bought the crazy app for my iPhone by Brian Eno and Peter Chilvers called Bloom. It creates, or allows you to create, ambient type music on your iPhone or iPod touch. It's well thought out and a blast to mess with. It's nice to see people...

Oct. 16, 2008

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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