TOC Intro #18
by Larry Crane
Welcome to Tape Op #18. Some content in this issue may wind a few of our readers up. I'll warn you now — people will take sides, people will write angry letters and we'll be here, attempting...
Columns
by Larry Crane
Gender...
by Larry Crane
As long as I have been involved in music I've had a healthy respect for women who are part of the music community. Most of the bands I've ever been in had female musicians, I've trained women...
TOC Intro #17
by Larry Crane
Welcome to Tape Op #17. Recently someone asked me why we ran interviews with artists, especially if they didn't have any real technical knowledge to impart about the recording process. Well,...
Fear Is Not Your Friend
by Larry Crane
The biggest enemy to art is fear. Fear causes artists to curb their vision, to play it safe, and to operate in a manner that is expected of them. In the recording studio fear manifests itself in...
TOC Intro #16
by Larry Crane
Hey, welcome to Tape Op #16. Four years ago I was folding and stapling a few pages of Xeroxed paper together in hopes that I could create a forum for others (and myself) to learn about recording. I...
What is a Producer?
by Larry Crane
What is a producer? This is opening up a potential can of worms/Pandora's box, but what I will give is an example, only one, of what a producer can be. I often wonder what the word "producer"...
TOC Intro #15
by Larry Crane
Hello and Welcome to Tape Op number 15! Kick off yer shoes and hang out a bit, would ya? Alright. Boy, a lot of crazy stuff has happened since the last issue... The fact that we're going to be...
Going Down in History
by Larry Crane
How do you want to go down in history? For many of us, all that most people will know of us when we're gone will be our names listed on some records, CDs and such. How do you wish to be seen in...
TOC Intro #14
by Larry Crane
Welcome to Tape Op number 14! Unplug the patch cables, normalize the board, put on some Booker T and let's hang out. I've realized recently that my introductions to recent issues have been very...
The first time
by Larry Crane
The first time I ever went in to a studio to record was in the summer of 1985. Our band, Vomit Launch, had been around for almost 6 months, and we decided it was time to hit the studio and make a...
Welcome to TAPE OP number 13!
by Larry Crane
We're proud to have interviews with some of the engineer/producers who helped define the new sounds of rock over the last 30 years. Ken Hamann cut his teeth on classic 60s bands like The Outsiders...
GEAR
by Larry Crane
For the last three years TAPE OP was created on a Packard Bell PC computer, a 486 with a small hard drive. It's rather slow with a small memory. With the switch to having Substance Media Works...