Lindsey Buckingham: Staying Grounded & Creative
by Larry Crane
Fleetwood Mac’s Rumours came out right before I started high school. I remember most of my graduating class (not including me!) singing “Dreams” at our ceremony in a park by a...
interviews
We talk at length with record-makers about how they make records.
Steve Lukather: The Right Guy for the Part
by Larry Crane
Who is Steve Lukather? The guitarist, vocalist, and one of the songwriters of Toto. A session player with ridiculous credits, like Michael Jackson’s Thriller, Lionel Richie, Boz Scaggs, Earth,...
Lenise Bent: Fascinated With the Process
by Lisa Machac
With over four decades of experience, Lenise Bent has worked in almost every field of audio engineering, from studio recordings, to post-production, to film sound and foley. Lenise chats with Lisa...
Nathan Boddy: Cerebral Sonic Mixer
by Roman Sokal
Looking at, and listening to, U.K.-based mixer Nathan Boddy’s seemingly endless credit list puts him at the top of this game. He’s mixed everyone from Gary Numan [Tape Op #125] to...
Stephen Lipson: A Satisfying Emotional Journey
by Larry Crane
When John Baccigaluppi and I interviewed Trevor Horn [Tape Op #89] in 2012 at his SARM West Studios, the name Stephen Lipson continually came up. For six years Trevor and Stephen worked together on...
Josh Kaufman: Running it Through a Dream
by Dawn Landes
Josh Kaufman has been busy. A producer, co-writer, and sideman to the likes of Bob Weir, Hiss Golden Messenger, The Hold Steady, and more, he’s been showing up in all my favorite music lately....
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Danny Reisch: Keep Your Hands on Those Faders!
by Jonathan Meiburg
For over 15 years, drummer/producer/engineer Danny Reisch’s analog-centric studio Good Danny’s has been a hub of Austin, Texas’ thriving music scene. Danny cut his teeth making...
Chad Clark: Casting a Spell with Beauty Pill
by Geoff Stanfield
I stumbled across Beauty Pill on Bandcamp while poking around the internet looking for new music. There were a few tracks posted from a forthcoming soundtrack to a play called suicide.chat.room. It...
Mark Linett: Surfing the Sessions
by Larry Crane
We first interviewed Mark Linett in Tape Op #47 about his work with Brian Wilson and The Beach Boys. Since then he’s overseen an extensive amount of The Beach Boys’ archives, and with...
Stan Shaff: San Francisco’s Immersive Sound at Audium
by Ian Brennan
Stand at the console Stan Shaff’s fascination with the use of sound movement as a compositional tool grew out of his roots as a jazz trumpet player. In 1960, he began staging the first of...
NOVA WAV: Believing in Magic
by Lisa Machac
Brittany "Chi" Coney and Denisia "Blu June" Andrews have been working together as the songwriting and producing duo NOVA WAV for over a decade. Based in Los Angeles, the Grammy-winning pair has...