Drew Vandenberg: Make it Sound Awesome
by Adam Selzer
Drew Vandenberg talked his way into interning at the iconic Athens, Georgia, 40 Watt Club and the legendary Chase Park Transduction studio [Tape Op #14] by the time he was 16 years old. Today,...
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We talk at length with record-makers about how they make records.
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Julie Last: The Technical With The Emotional
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With a start at New York City's Record Plant in the mid-'70s, Julie Last continued with her career at Ocean Way Studios in Los Angeles. Now living in Woodstock, NY, she runs her own Cold Brook...
Mindfulness in the Recording Studio
by Kyle Michael Nicolaides
Jerry Harrison: A Life In Music
by John Baccigaluppi, Larry Crane
As a member of the Talking Heads and forming The Modern Lovers with Jonathan Richman, Jerry Harrison would have a career of note if this was all he’d done. But as a successful producer over the...
Eric “ET” Thorngren: Throwing Out Reality
by Larry Crane
Recording and mixing much of the Talking Heads catalog would be one achievement, but then throw in tracking some of the earliest hip-hop at Sugar Hill Records, mixing Robert Palmer’s...
Marta Salogni: Having that Knowledge
by Larry Crane
A pure obsession with sound drove a young woman from her rural Italian home to the UK and into London’s recording studios. A relentless drive to learn how everything in audio works then set her...
Russ Gary: Lookin’ back
by Mike Robbie
Russ Gary is a self-professed countrified rocker and a recording legend who is still working and actively making original music today. Whether working at Wally Heider Studios, Fantasy Studios, DSR...
Isabelle Banos: Opening the Door
by Lisa Machac
A producer, songwriter, and a founding member of the alternative pop band Caveboy, Isabelle Banos is based in Montreal, Canada. Her passion for empowerment through education has led her to become a...
Is That a Track or a Stem?: Sorting Out Audio Terms
by Larry Crane, Garrett Haines
When people hire me to mix their songs, I frequently come across situations where we are not using the same terminology for the sources clients are giving me to work from. Yes, sometimes one word can...
Making the Box Set Blondie: Against The Odds 1974-1982: with Steve Rosenthal & Michael Graves
by Larry Crane
When I heard my colleagues Steve Rosenthal [Tape Op #66] and Michael Graves [#125] had produced, repaired, and mastered Blondie’s new box set, Blondie: Against The Odds 1974-1982, I had to drop...
Don Lewis 1941-2022
by Ian Brennan
As an electronic instrument pioneer, and one of the designers of the Roland TR-808 drum machine, Don Lewis had an irreversible impact on the trajectory and sound of popular music. On November 6th,...