Dump: James McNew and his 4 track band!
by Larry Crane
Yeah. So I had heard of Dump, the bass player from Yo La Tengo, who did these great songs he recorded at home on 4 track. But I had never stumbled across any of his CD's until a bunch...
interviews
by Larry Crane
Oh, Fuck! : A conversation with Kyle Statham of the San Francisco combo known as Fuck.
by Larry Crane
Fuck. Okay, here's the story. I saw Fuck play a show a while before this interview. I was unimpressed, but several people said they loved their records and that the show was great...
Don Depew
by Larry Crane
When I moved into Cleveland a little over a year ago, I had a limited knowledge of the current music scene. Most of the local music I picked up was the usual crap you'd find in any other...
Guided By Voices: a chat with Robert Pollard
by Larry Crane
If there's one person Tape Op readers have been dying to see interviewed in these pages it would have to be Robert Pollard, the dynamic, engaging leader and frontman of the popular combo known as...
Paul Marotta: Home recording before 4-track cassettes!
by Larry Crane
Where were you in 1973? Maybe you were a 10 year old kid like me, or maybe a bit older and checking out you older siblings record collections. Hell, maybe you weren't even born...
Trent Bell: Chainsaw Kitten and studio owner
by Larry Crane
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...
Dave Doughman: recording tips from Dayton
by Larry Crane
"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...
Four Track Basics, Part One: Part One
by Larry Crane
Microphones!
by Larry Crane, Mike McDonald
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. ...
Reading Materials
by Larry Crane
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...
Reviews, etc...
by Larry Crane
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...
Elliott Smith: on the joy of recording
by Larry Crane
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...