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By Geoff Stanfield
Welcome to Tape Op's DISCussion, where we call our friends and music community notables to talk about their favorite records.
I have long been a fan of the 500 series format. It is a relatively cost effective way to have a variety of modules at your disposal and portable in the right rack. I often recommend it to friends looking to expand into hardware, because even...
I have long been a fan of the 500 series format. It is a relatively cost effective way to have a variety of modules at your disposal and portable in the right rack. I often recommend it to friends looking to expand into hardware, because even...
In 1971, when I was 16, I used to work as a grounds keeper at a tennis court complex just outside The Hague in the Netherlands. It was a summer vacation job, and my goal was to save enough money to purchase my first two LPs. I had my sight se...
I have never accepted digital mixing fully, and have always sent my Pro Tools mixes out to analog line amps and bus compressors to get that undeniable depth, width, punch and realism. Bob Katz, a known authority on such matters, has said that...
Through close encounters with Motown machinery, Ken Caillat [Tape Op #96], and Hal Blaine's drum kit, Foxygen's Jonathan Rado has established himself as a modern manipulator of the Nixon-era studio palette. His Richard Swift [#120]-...
There are two ways to start soundcheck for a band. To determine which to use, look at the theatre's marquee. If it's an individual's name on the marquee, take the fader for that individual – vocalist, banjo pla...
"What you can control are knobs, faders, and being a nice person." For ten years Richard Swift's been luring the hippest of indie rock bands to Cottage Grove, in the middle of Oregon, to work with him at his National Freedom St...
The band moe. has been an ongoing concern since forming in Buffalo, NY, over 20 years ago. Guitarist/vocalist Al Schnier joined up in 1991, and the band has been busy on the road and releasing albums ever since, even putting on the excellent ...
[ image promo type=fullcenter border=noneatall ] A while back I got an email from producer/engineer/drummer Butch Vig (Tape Op #11): "I started working with some musician friends a couple years ago on a side project, The Emperors of Wyom...
I've been a fan of the husband and wife group VIVA VOCE since I first heard their second album, Lovers, Lead the Way, in 2003. To my surprise, the band asked me to assist in mixing The Heat Can Melt Your Brain in their living room/home s...
The songs are strong, the playing impeccable, but what strikes many listeners when they first hear Dungen is the sound. It always comes up when fans discuss the band. Leader Gustav Estjes creates records that seem both vintage and current — m...