In 1995, I had my first opportunity to try a musical experiment I'd been concocting in my head for a good 10 years. In short, the idea was merely to record some improvised music. In long, it's been...
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...
Welcome to a very overdue installment of my geekish banter. Issues of Tape Op have been flying by without me and I thought it was about time I blessed you all with some more electro-quackery on...
In Recording Recipes No. 2 (TAPE OP No. 10), I wrote about flying microphones. This time I'll set forth a few recording techniques involving flying (roaming, really) musicians. As with the...
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Who among us hasn't wanted to take a razor blade to our tapes for no other purpose than malicious destruction? Through the ancient art of manual tape editing and splicing, you now have a practical...
As I did last time, I'm going to give you a few recipes for unconventional recording techniques. In the event that something turns out to be "conventional" (boring/old hat/duh!), please berate me...
Since I often record alone, I've developed a few techniques to compensate for the lack of extra eyes, ears and hands (until cloning is available to the masses) that I work without. Not all these...
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...
Disclaimer #1: Do not open up your amplifier unless you know what you are doing! Tube amps work with lethal voltages that can remain in the amp even after it is unplugged. If you don't know how...
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...
Maybe you remember Geoff's interview from Tape Op #3 where we talked a lot about tube amps and such. Since then a lot of readers have mentioned how handy that was and how they'd like to hear...
