I'm John Baccigaluppi, the other guy at Tape Op and this issue I'm writing the intro that Larry, our editor, usually writes. I've known Larry for over three decades now, and we've worked together on Tape Op for a majority of that time. We're still good friends, and I continue to enjoy putting together each issue of the magazine. After Larry sends me the editorial, I read through it, download photos from our FTP server, and get excited about the design and layout of each issue. Larry and I will go back and forth a bit about an issue's content, a few weeks in it's mostly laid out, and then I turn it over to Scott McChane. Scott helps with the pre-press stage of the magazine, and then a few weeks after this you, the reader, have a print magazine in your hands.