Tinnitus: Taking Charge of Tinnitus
by Liz Brown
It seems like a cruel joke: Your love of music inspires you to pursue a career playing or recording it or both. You spend years honing your craft, only to find that exposure to loud music all that...
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Interviews, tutorials, etc. All about the art of music recording.
Peter Visser of Bettie Serveert
by Larry Crane
I've been sitting on this interview so long that a new CD, attagirl, has already been released. Check out any of their albums to hear the best band in The Netherlands!Is Log 22 the first record you...
What I Learned In Recording School
by Jeremiah Cymerman
Back in the golden days of Sun Studios and Gold Star, when recording was still a new enterprise, in order to be a recording engineer you had to actually be an engineer. Before you...
Russell Frehling Expanded
by Steve Silverstein
I contacted Russell Frehling for a sidebar to my interview with composer Pauline Oliveros. To accompany the Oliveros article, I wanted to include a profile of Deep Listening Space's...
Harvey and Alex Gerst
by Kent Powell
Harvey Gerst has been a major-label musician (the Villagers, Sweetwater), hit songwriter (the Byrds), product designer (Acoustic, JBL), engineer, and producer. I his 60's, he...
Oranger
by Ian Swanke
Oranger may be the best self produced, home recorded band you've never heard of. When they aren't on tour with Elliott Smith, Wilco, The Apples In Stereo or R.E.M, they're tucked away in a foggy...
Will Oldham is Bonny "Prince" Billy
by John Dylan Keith
I've been listening to Bonny 'Prince' Billy's "Master and Everyone" a little obsessively lately, so it seemed auspicious when the chance to interview him came up. His avoidance...
Crystalphonic
by Larry Crane
This summer I was part of a press junket to Crystalphonic Sound Studios in Charlottesville, Virginia. A press junket is a trip where they fly writers from various magazines to a...
Audio Books Review: Audio Books Roundup
by David Ackerman, John Baccigaluppi, Myles Boisen, Louis R. Carlozo, Martin Chittum, Scott Colburn, Larry Crane, David Cuetter, Matthew Cullen, Larry DeVivo, Bill Dodd, Jeremy du Bois, Kiley Henner, Graham Hick, Bob Katz, Steve McAllister, Bill McMaster, Eric Morrison, Steven Nereo, Steve Pogact, Brian Roth, Rob Shelby, Steve Silverstein, Kenneth Sluiter, Philip Stevenson, David Weiss
Since Tape Op Magazine only comes out every other month, I assume that our typical reader has a little time left over in which to read and learn more about the art and science of recording. With that...
DFA/Plantain: Tim Goldsworthy, The DFA, James Murphy and Plantain Studio, New York City
by Sasha Zand
Having forged his reputation as one of the founders of the Mo' Wax label (trip-hop provocateurs) in England in the late '90s and as a member of the remix team known as U.N.K.L.E., Tim Goldsworthy...
Stephin Merritt: 69 Love Songs + more vintage synths
by Marc Gartman
Stephin Merritt is the mastermind behind the music of The Magnetic Fields, the 6ths, the Gothic Archies and Future Bible Heroes. He is also one of the most important and influential songwriters in...
Mark Bingham: From NYC to New Orleans, no synths
by Steve Silverstein
While you may or may not recognize Mark Bingham's name, his career as a musician, engineer, producer and arranger has spanned four decades. From sessions in the '60s watching the Doors record,...