Interviews | No. 173
By Larry Crane and Matthew Coughlin
There are a few engineer/producers I've met along the way where I've meant to get an interview with them for ages, but for some reason it takes so much longer for us to find the time to do it. Trina Shoemaker has been one of these elusive folks ever since we first met in New...
Drew Vandenberg talked his way into interning at the iconic Athens, Georgia, 40 Watt Club and the legendary Chase Park Transduction studio [Tape Op#14] by the time he was 16 years old. Today, he's a sought-after producer and engineer, working with such artists as Faye Webster, Of...
With a start at New York City's Record Plant in the mid-'70s, Julie Last continued with her career at Ocean Way Studios in Los Angeles. Now living in Woodstock, NY, she runs her own Cold Brook Productions. Along the way she worked on sessions for Talking Heads, Cheap Trick...
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As a member of the Talking Heads and forming The Modern Lovers with Jonathan Richman, Jerry Harrison would have a career of note if this was all he'd done. But as a successful producer over the last four decades, he's helmed albums for Violent Femmes, Crash Test Dummies, The...
Recording and mixing much of the Talking Heads catalog would be one achievement, but then throw in tracking some of the earliest hip-hop at Sugar Hill Records, mixing Robert Palmer's "Addicted to Love," and re-mixing songs for Bob Marley's Legend album, and you have...
A producer, songwriter, and a founding member of the alternative pop band Caveboy, Isabelle Banos is based in Montreal, Canada. Her passion for empowerment through education has led her to become a contributor for LANDR's YouTube, as well as a regular volunteer for the Montreal...
When people hire me to mix their songs, I frequently come across situations where we are not using the same terminology for the sources clients are giving me to work from. Yes, sometimes one word can mean several different things, but generally the consensus among audio professionals is...
As an electronic instrument pioneer, and one of the designers of the Roland TR-808 drum machine, Don Lewis had an irreversible impact on the trajectory and sound of popular music. On November 6th, 2022, Mr. Lewis peacefully passed away at the age of 81. It is an honor to help remember...
I'm sure a lot of you are asking "who was Herb Deutsch and what does he have to do with rock 'n' roll?" The short answer is sometimes it's the people behind the scenes that change the course of history.
A pure obsession with sound drove a young woman from her rural Italian home to the UK and into London's recording studios. A relentless drive to learn how everything in audio works then set her on the path to sessions with Depeche Mode, Björk, Animal Collective, Circuit des Yeux...
Years ago, I met John Plymale at one of our TapeOpCon events. He currently lives in Norfolk, Virginia, and has helmed amazing projects including the Squirrel Nut Zippers, Superchunk, and the Meat Puppets. Recently John produced the album Steadman's Wake for one of my favorite bands...
