ISSUE ARCHIVE
NO. 172 | Feb 2026
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June/July 2026
We're proud to announce the upcoming publication of a new Tape Op book, coming in September of this year! Titled, Making Music: Conversations With Record Producers, it will be published by our pals at Akashic Books in New York. We're hoping to host a series of books under the Making Music title, covering engineers and artists as well. Interviews will include content from our print edition and podcast, plus new thoughts, intros, and extensive editing – think of it as a remastered Greatest Hits collection of Tape Op!
We're very excited to have a book as one of the ways to celebrate 30 years of doing this magazine. It's quite different from the two compendium books we did years ago – 2000's Tape Op: The Book About Creative Music Recording, and its Vol. II companion in 2007 – as it's focused (as much as one can) on a topic and pulls from the last 30 years of content. It’s been an incredible journey so far, and were looking forward to sharing more with you.
Meanwhile, enjoy this issue! It features some wide-ranging styles of music – plus differing ways to make and record it – including Americana, death metal, an African icon, film scores, classic rock, and current mainstream pop.
— LARRY CRANE, EDITOR & FOUNDER
There are a few engineer/producers I've met along the way where I've meant to get an interview with them for ages, but for some reason it takes so much longer for us to find the time to do it. Trina S...
In 2026, Fela Kuti became the first African artist ever awarded a Lifetime Achievement Award at the Grammys, something that I formally proposed in 2020 but took over five years to be realized. Fela to...
Rachel White is an engineer, guitarist, and producer who has lent her talents in the studio to Weezer and Panic! At the Disco, among others (she has even contributed backing vocals to the latter on to...
Kito, whose given name is Maaike Kito Lebbing, has a music production career spanning three continents, from Australia, to Europe (London), and to the United States by way of Los Angeles. In that time...
For over two and a half decades, Marc Daniel Nelson has built a career rooted in musicality, technical rigor, and a deep respect for the lineage of recorded sound. A Grammy-winning producer, mix engin...
Many might know actor/producer/writer/director Adam Goldberg from having been in films like Dazed and Confused and Saving Private Ryan, or TV shows such as Fargo and the reboot of The Equalizer with Q...
For a certain breed of bored and angry teenagers at the dawn of the ‘90s, nothing made us feel more alive than Florida death metal. Pumped out of Morrisound Recording in Tampa at an alarming rate, alb...