It's the mid-60s and tubes are glowing hot in studios from 30th Street to Abbey Road. Wheels are in motion and the legacy of Leonard Chess and Sam Phillips is welling up in the ears of America. In...
Sometimes it's too bad Tape Op doesn't offer an audio version of the magazine. Whatever you might know or not know about Hank Shocklee, it's difficult without hearing him speak, to convey the...
The history of recording music is half folklore. Tales of insinuation and glory have us turned around to the point where we don't know much about what really happened during most of the great...
If, by chance, you have not fallen off the face of the earth in the past couple of months, you've probably become familiar with journal of Mixerman, an anonymous diarist on www.prosoundweb.com who has...
Well here's a classic Tape Op interview question for you: how do you feel about digital?Frustrated. [laughs]. There's so many great things about it and yet — there was a thing at the AES called...
Mark Neill talks a long time. A simple question on Blumlein pairs can unleash a conversational flood of anecdotes, electronic puzzles and acoustic theories lasting an hour or more. Just when you...
Somewhere on the thorny road to legend, hotel recording genius (and Eric Clapton victim) Robert Johnson wrote, "This stuff I got'll bust your brains out." While he may have been referring to...
