Mr. Trent Bell is the proprietor of Bell Labs, a fine recording establishment in Norman, Oklahoma, a member of the preeminent pop combo known as the Chainsaw Kittens and the soundman for the...
"Who the hell is Dave Doughman?", you might say. Well, I didn't quite know who he was until I stumbled across him running sound for Guided By Voices and Thomas Jefferson Slave Apartments on...
Mike McDonald has been recording bands in the Cleveland area for a short time now with his mobile Big Toe Recording setup and has recently been doing a bit of work out of Don Depew's 609studio. ...
THE BEATLES RECORDING SESSIONS The Official Abbey Road Studio Session Notes, 1962-1970 This book is required reading for all Tape Op readers. Writer and researcher, Mark Lewisohn, also...
So, here's the REVIEWS section. Tape Op gets a lot of CDs, singles and (yuck) cassettes sent our way. Most of them are in a box behind my couch and are waiting to be traded in for Beatles...
It was, strangely, a sunny day in the middle of a Portland winter when I came by to pry Elliott out of a studio/office space (actually, it's a room off the side of the Undercover Inc. office) where...
Hillary first came to Tape Op's attention when she e-mailed us, from New York, with some hot "snapple-micing" tips (see the letters in issue #3). I was impressed with her rockin'...
First off, let me state that The Chills are one of my favorite pop bands ever. When I heard there was a new album (Sunburnt) coming out, and a tour to follow, I was overjoyed. Then I...
The common image of a studio is a warehouse or basement setup in a decent sized city. Or maybe it's a fancy resort styled place in the woods where millionaire rockers can relax and make hit...
We found Brendan doing sound for the Chills on tour. When he got a look at Tape Op, he wanted to sit in on the interview--and when Martin got called out to autograph a female fan's shirt, "Well,...
Umm, Steve Fisk has been playing and recording music longer that some of you have been out of diapers. It's a bit of a tale but we'll trudge through some of it here. Lately, he's been a...
