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Video Release: James Supercave "Burn" What follows may be one of the best answers to the "So, how'd you guys meet?" question we have ever heard. Producer, engineer, and oft-recorded bassist (Black Keys, Ryan Adams, Norah Jones) Gus Seyffert was...
Geoff Stanfield and Andy Hong add an update to the original Meris Mercury7 Reverb review by Adam Kagan. GS: I am a fan of the Meris line of gear. They are a small shop who builds their high-quality modules in Los Angeles. I have reviewed the Meris...
On Oct 18th, the 30-plus year old band Karate will release Make it Fit, their first new album in 20 years, and have recently dropped the first two singles from the LP, "Defendants" and "Silence, Sound." Larry first interviewed Karate...
Ina previous blog post, we saw the beginnings of this project. Damian Wagner was in issue 64 - here's a crazy project where he's amplifying the sound of the earth! "After destroying 3 subwoofers and having to completely redesign the playback engine I...
Eddie Ashworth dropped me a line about the work he and many other scholars are doing with the Art of Record Production folks. Be sure to read The Journal for the Art of Record Production online. It's densely full of articles, interviews, reviews...
My pal David Lowery (Cracker/Camper Van Beethoven) has been doing a cool blog called 300 Songs, telling stories of how songs came about and other crazy stories. The most recent one is about the late Don Smith, who produced and engineered a bunch of...
Tape Op contributor Allen Farmelo sent us this thoughtful piece on why the mag doesn't feature many "negative" reviews. Makes sense to me. I imagine anyone out there wanting us to write reviews ripping apart gear all the time still might come up...
Michael Cozzi (Guitarist/Producer Shriekback, Sky Cries Mary etc... ) dropped us a line about his newly built Moscozzi Studio in Seattle. he says, "I was able to complete it on a shoestring budget using largely re-salvaged materials." Luckily for...
Check out the new St. Vincent LP, All Born Screaming, and video for the track "Broken Man" out now. The album was recorded and mixed by Cian Riordan who interviewed Annie Clark (aka St. Vincent) for Tape Op #134. Read the Tape Op...
