In issue #29 I wrote about an IC op amp upgrade for the UREI LA-4, a '70s-era optical limiter whose ancestors were the Teletronix LA-2 (vacuum tube) and the Universal Audio LA-3 (solid state). The original plan was to write more about the modifications but I've decided instead...
","byline":"Eddie Ciletti","url":"/tutorials/30/compressor-tips","contributors":[{"id":"f9ec674b-d5f9-494f-b296-202aeca5cf33","name":"Eddie Ciletti","role":"author"}]},{"id":"bb231431-0538-4082-aeff-2f8254900b48","title":"Computer Advice","subtitle":null,"issueNumber":22,"publicationDate":"2001-03-15T20:00:00.000Z","imageUrl":"https://images.tapeop.com/a66d346a-9e1d-4dd3-856b-67af1d533cf3","excerpt":"I'm trying to buy a laptop and whatever other hardware I need to record music at home, and I would really appreciate some help. First off, I play piano as well as electronic instruments (synths, sampler, drum machine), so I'd like to be able to do both MIDI and digital...
","byline":"Walt Szalva","url":"/tutorials/22/computer-advice","contributors":[{"id":"4a16f8b6-a104-47b1-b978-353cc7d4aa2d","name":"Walt Szalva","role":"author"},{"id":"4d4bbd68-0037-4a36-abb4-afe8139a6af5","name":"Martin Chittum","role":"author"},{"id":"8c8ade9e-15c9-4ff5-a765-7372e1b44cdc","name":"Mike Caffrey","role":"author"},{"id":"96a2540d-16d7-480e-9130-05ba2743127a","name":"D. Matz","role":"author"},{"id":"b4a77d5a-7268-4280-a672-f3b2a86984f7","name":"George Rigney","role":"author"},{"id":"c4016b72-489b-4ac8-982b-26691f62f86f","name":"Rob Carpenter II","role":"author"},{"id":"f865f4fc-4236-4d54-864a-9527f69b7bbe","name":"Scott Craggs","role":"author"}]},{"id":"11bafe5e-9490-462f-b4b0-d2c268868a11","title":"Top 10 Recording Tips","subtitle":null,"issueNumber":19,"publicationDate":"1999-09-15T17:43:00.000Z","imageUrl":"https://images.tapeop.com/a66d346a-9e1d-4dd3-856b-67af1d533cf3","excerpt":"#10 ALWAYS DOCUMENT THE RECORDING SESSION IN SOME WAY.
Take numbers, mic placement, effect settings, date of recordings, song titles, artist and writers names, reel numbers, BPM and SMPTE Song Start Times, track assignments, tape setup info, lyric/music sheets, phone numbers and good...
","byline":"Barry Rudolph","url":"/tutorials/19/top-10-recording-tips","contributors":[{"id":"73a0c1e3-015b-416f-b417-ee794bf369be","name":"Barry Rudolph","role":"author"}]},{"id":"cc1a60f4-5f91-4eb8-b346-3823c3adb6cf","title":"Affordable Recording on a Mac","subtitle":null,"issueNumber":13,"publicationDate":"1999-07-16T01:51:00.000Z","imageUrl":"https://images.tapeop.com/a66d346a-9e1d-4dd3-856b-67af1d533cf3","excerpt":"In the last issue of Tape Op, Rich Hardesty's article, "A Beginner's Guide to Digital Recording With Your PC," was really inspiring to me for two reasons. First, that you were doing an article, on computers, and second, because he says "Sorry Mac folks, I...
","byline":"Rob Lodes","url":"/tutorials/13/affordable-recording-mac","contributors":[{"id":"f2ff1ea1-aff0-40ba-a0e9-48a71c530dc4","name":"Rob Lodes","role":"author"}]},{"id":"09efee0a-30a5-45e1-902e-358e08fdf259","title":"Bouncing, it's not just for Four Tracks Anymore","subtitle":null,"issueNumber":8,"publicationDate":"1998-03-15T22:39:00.000Z","imageUrl":"https://images.tapeop.com/a66d346a-9e1d-4dd3-856b-67af1d533cf3","excerpt":"My own experience in the recording world goes back about eight years to the summer before my senior year of high school. It was then that I bought a Sansui 6 track cassette recorder, and began recording my songs. In the next few years my band (now The Marinernine) recorded a few demos...
","byline":"Brian McTear","url":"/tutorials/8/bouncing-its-not-just-four-tracks-anymore","contributors":[{"id":"ebf185e3-bd8b-4794-97b1-973fe6be4dac","name":"Brian McTear","role":"author"}]},{"id":"517c4889-205b-4514-9a86-ad7bdb29dcb1","title":"Four Track School (part two)","subtitle":null,"issueNumber":7,"publicationDate":"1998-01-15T22:51:00.000Z","imageUrl":"https://images.tapeop.com/a66d346a-9e1d-4dd3-856b-67af1d533cf3","excerpt":"In the spring of 1983, a friend and I purchased a reel-to-reel four track. Up to that point, we had been doing multi-track recording by bouncing back and forth between a cassette deck and a boom box. We wanted to upgrade our "studio" (co-opted den), so we started to look...
","byline":"Curtis Settino","url":"/tutorials/7/four-track-school-part-two","contributors":[{"id":"beedc6eb-a2db-48a9-92a2-0d99d7baa7c0","name":"Curtis Settino","role":"author"}]},{"id":"75f9e4db-a8bb-4f3a-908e-9832bb01ba26","title":"Mastering","subtitle":"Admit it. Some of you don't know what it is.","issueNumber":5,"publicationDate":"1997-06-15T21:12:00.000Z","imageUrl":"https://images.tapeop.com/a66d346a-9e1d-4dd3-856b-67af1d533cf3","excerpt":"Admit it. Some of you don't understand what mastering is, what it does, and why you need it. I've had a hard time explaining it to clients in the past and thought I'd do good to call my pal Karl Bartlett, who's been mastering records in Nashville for several years...
","byline":"Larry Crane","url":"/tutorials/5/mastering","contributors":[{"id":"b8ecd2ed-95dd-4258-aba3-6ecf753995ae","name":"Larry Crane","role":"author"}]},{"id":"cd2062fb-a902-475e-b21e-5e015f1c3324","title":"Vintage King Restoration Series, Part 2","subtitle":"Restoring a vintage Neumann M49","issueNumber":null,"publicationDate":"2014-07-01T17:05:00.000Z","imageUrl":"https://images.tapeop.com/a66d346a-9e1d-4dd3-856b-67af1d533cf3","excerpt":"What is the attraction of vintage microphones? While we all may spend more hands-on studio time with our outboard gear, our console, and so on, there's undoubtedly a uniquely personal connection we have with the microphone. In one way or another, our clients describe that...
","byline":null,"url":"/tutorials/bonus/vintage-king-restoration-series-part-2-microphones","contributors":[]},{"id":"fc9916f2-096b-4971-acde-00c8675bb01c","title":"Fizmo: The Synthesizer That Was And Is","subtitle":null,"issueNumber":null,"publicationDate":"2002-01-06T08:00:00.000Z","imageUrl":"https://images.tapeop.com/a66d346a-9e1d-4dd3-856b-67af1d533cf3","excerpt":"I'm a Fizzer. I'm one of the lucky folks who own, play and love a "loveable loser" of a digital synthesizer with the funny name of Fizmo. It was available from synth and music company Ensoniq a couple of years ago, but didn't last long for several reasons. I...
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