What happens when a band, Washington, D.C.'s eclectic post-rock Beauty Pill, is commissioned to record their latest album over two weeks in a public arts center and become a live exhibit for patrons?... < KEEP READING >
THE "DRUG STORE TRUCK-DRIVING MAN"
From Tape Op issue #2! Here's a true story from an engineer that was there:
On the condition of anonymity, here's what happened, as best as I remember it... keep... < KEEP READING >
I recently had the chance to interview one of my favorite musician/studio owners, Peter Gabriel. The situation involved me and three other writers sitting in a wooden shed with an SSL at one end, in... < KEEP READING >
Sometimes recordists (and musicians, more broadly) have to ship a piece of gear - either to the manufacturer for repairs, or to the retailer as a return or exchange. Just as recording is more than... < KEEP READING >
Soon after finishing a technical engineering degree, Tom Bugs completed and sold his first batch of Weevils. While working out how to give life to what would become BugBrand, Tom helped out at the... < KEEP READING >
Talk a little about your Lucas equipment.
I started about '89 or '90. Really what inspired it was two things: It was always difficult recording guitars, because a lot of what I did experimenting on... < KEEP READING >
What exactly is/are "trombone-propelled electronics?"
The backwards guitar pieces were fun to watch because of all those "horny guitars" (as my wife dubbed the highly pronged pawnshop specials that... < KEEP READING >
Hey, wait a minute - weren't all the great records supposed to be recorded in somebody's bedroom by now? By people in their twenties, on cheap software, with consumer-level gear? Wasn't there supposed... < KEEP READING >
What would be a typical framework for how you go about producing, from having met the artist to a finished record?
Normally, when I first meet the artist we spend some time together, and then if it... < KEEP READING >
When I found out that I would be moving to Minneapolis, my friend Peter Holmstrom gave me Ed Ackerson's number. He told me Ed was a guy that I would have a lot in common with. In Portland, I had... < KEEP READING >
