Poor Man's Mellotron
by Bruce Harvie
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Interviews, tutorials, etc. All about the art of music recording.
Studio Interns: So You Wanna Be an Intern?
by Larry Crane, Geoff Sanoff
As a studio owner, I get several calls and emails per week from people looking to break into the "glamorous" world of recording through interning. These people wish to gain experience in the studio,...
Free Money?: Fellowships, Residencies and Project Grants
by Homer Jackson
I am a visual artist. I was trained as a printmaker and worked with etching, screenprinting and lithography. My introduction to sound came during the early 1980s at my college radio station, when I...
Dave Amels: of The Bomb Factory
by John Baccigaluppi, Larry Crane
In the last six months I've been forced to learn my way around Pro Tools a bit while mixing some budget projects. Sonically, I'd rather mix through a console although I really enjoy the process of...
Bob Olhsson: Magic & the Motown Sound!
by Philip Stevenson
It's the mid-60s and tubes are glowing hot in studios from 30th Street to Abbey Road. Wheels are in motion and the legacy of Leonard Chess and Sam Phillips is welling up in the ears of America. In...
Bob Olhsson: Looking at Digital Recording
by Philip Stevenson
Well here's a classic Tape Op interview question for you: how do you feel about digital?Frustrated. [laughs]. There's so many great things about it and yet — there was a thing at the AES called...
Leanne Ungar: Recording Leonard Cohen & Laurie Anderson
by Chad Blinman
I first worked with Leanne Ungar in 1992, when I was an assistant engineer at The Complex in West Los Angeles. The record was Leonard Cohen's The Future. Leanne has been engineering records for...
Howie Weinberg: Mastering engineer of the stars
by Glen S. Colen
Howie Weinberg got his start in the Masterdisk mailroom, believe it or not. As a huge fan of music, Howie sought a purpose to support his passion, and he had always dreamed of working in the...
The Bevis Frond: Psychedelic UK home recordings
by Steve Silverstein
The Bevis Frond's 1986 debut Miasma could have come from any time, or maybe no time. Nick Saloman's home-recorded, somewhat primitive recording techniques would have fallen under the "lo-fi"...
2 in 1 studio: House of Faith/Guerilla Recording
by Ian Swanke
Bart Thurber, once described by a record reviewer as the punk rock Phil Spector, has a favorite expression — "An engineer drives a train — I'm a recording guy". He's a West Coast legend...
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Build a tube Mic Pre: Build Your Own Two Channel Vacuum Tube Mic Preamp!
by Scott Hampton
When asked to come up with a "do it yourself" tube mic pre project, I thought long and hard about what topology to go with. I designed a number of different hybrid tube/discrete class A designs...