Gear Geeking | No. 165
Gear Geeking w/ Andy...
by Andy Hong
A dozen years is quite a lifetime for studio headphones, especially ones used for artist monitoring. Joseph Lemmer’s 2012 review [Tape Op #91] of the Monoprice 8323 DJ-style headphones...
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Gear Geeking w/ Andy...
by Andy Hong
The buildout of my commercial studio building is still in progress (ugh), but over the next couple months I’m looking forward to completing my Nashville home studio (also ugh). Long story short,...
Gear Geeking w/ Andy...
by Andy Hong
I've suffered through half a dozen home and studio moves over the past eight years. The moves have been challenging, to say the least, and two sources of frustration have been ISPs and wireless LANs....
Gear Geeking w/ Andy...
by Andy Hong
As we all know, aging ears and sustained exposure to high SPL (sound pressure level) can lead to permanent hearing loss, chronic tinnitus, or both. I’m at the point in my music-making endeavors...
Gear Geeking w/ Andy...
by Andy Hong
In 2023, I sold my Boston studio to Brian Charles, whose Zippah Recording facility was destroyed in a 2021 fire. Brian shared Zippah for many years with longtime Tape Op contributor Pete Weiss [Tape...
Gear Geeking w/ Andy...
by Andy Hong
I've written here before that I own dozens of cordless power tools from Bosch, Milwaukee, and Ryobi for the never-ending list of projects around the house, inside the garage, out on the dock, and of...
Gear Geeking w/ Andy...
by Andy Hong
I bet most Tape Op readers who own a soldering iron also have a digital multimeter (DMM), and they've learned at least the basics of diagnosing misbehaving instruments, amps, pedals, preamps,...
Gear Geeking w/ Andy...
by Andy Hong
In 2022, I shared my opinions on several models of Bluetooth earbuds that I own [Tape Op #150, #151], with the conclusion that Sony WF-1000XM4 earbuds with active noise cancellation (ANC) were my...
Gear Geeking w/ Andy...
by Andy Hong
After completing multiple home, studio, and office moves in the past couple years, I’ve been frustrated by the challenge of finding tools and supplies after packing them away – not just...
Gear Geeking w/ Andy...
by Andy Hong
During my attendance of the NAMM Show in April 2023, I saw many new and unique products. Audiomovers showed me Inject, a plug-in for recording iPad virtual instruments directly into a DAW using only a...
Gear Geeking w/ Andy...
by Andy Hong
When we lust over aspirational recording gear, what often comes to mind are vintage hunks of steel and vacuum tubes from the likes of Fairchild, Telefunken, Neumann, RCA, Pultec, Collins, and Altec....
Gear Geeking w/ Andy...
by Andy Hong
For quite a time surrounding the year 2000, I was known as “the guy who records Karate” — their de facto recording engineer. Following the completion of their third album, The Bed is...
Gear Geeking w/ Andy...
by Andy Hong
I’m writing this just a couple weeks after the AES Show in New York City. This was the first major Pro Audio convention that I’ve attended since the Pandemic, and I very much enjoyed...