Gear Geeking w/ Andy...
by Andy Hong
While recommending various hand tools for maintaining studio wiring in the previous issue, I thought of also covering flashlights, but being the tool geek that I am, I realized I wouldn't have enough...
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The Big Misconception
by Larry Crane
Here's the scenario: You're reading an article in a magazine about the current state of the music business. You come across the inevitable part where the journalist talks about how empowered musicians...
Gear Geeking w/ Andy...
by Andy Hong
If you are a budding studio owner or engineer, realize that at many points during your career, you will need to fix problems with wiring — be it a broken wire inside a guitar or a...
End Rant #83
by Larry Crane
So you just graduated from recording school? Congrats to you! But here are a few things you might not have learned in school: You will initially blame the musician for not having the right sound,...
Gear Geeking #83
by Andy Hong
Back in Tape Op #69, I reviewed two products from CruzTOOLS - the GrooveTech T-Handle Drum Key and the Guitar Player Tech Kit — and I was impressed with the quality and engineering evident in...
Gear Geeking #82
by Andy Hong
Larry's review of Wings of Nature Organic Health Bars (Tape Op #81), in which he discussed healthy, in-studio snacking, inspired me to comment on another important means of staying happier and...
Bad Investments???
by Larry Crane
A reader in our letters section [Tape Op #75] recently bemoaned the fact that a virtual instrument plug-in he had purchased was no longer functioning properly and that he had received no support from...
Four Tracks and an Attitude
by Luther Russell
As a teenager in 1985 I slaved away all summer as a prep cook to buy a $500 Tascam Porta One 4- track cassette recorder. I proceeded to do what a lot of musicians of my generation did: record like...
Gear Geeking #81
by Andy Hong
I travel a lot — enough that I've been awarded a lifetime Platinum membership with American Airlines for flying two million miles, and I recently converted my Amtrak points into $2000 worth of...
the iPad as a True Instrument?
by Tom Freeman
I'm an iMusician — I like making music on iPhones and iPads. While I also like making music with a drum machine, in the studio or on a guitar, I consider the iPhone and iPad to be musical...
Gear Geeking #80
by Andy Hong
Up until a few years ago, efficient switch-mode DC-to-DC converters were too noisy to use in audio applications. That's why until recently, you didn't see 500-series modules that require internal...
Please Check all that apply:
by Scott Craggs, Chris Garges
Dear Mastering Engineer, I'm sorry that I was: ?? unable to attend the mastering session. ?? unaware of your work. ?? unaware that the band is using you to master the project I did for them. But...