Tape Op Magazine

M.Ward:
"I just love being surprised, whether it means being a listener to someone else's record or being in the studio, hearing my songs come out of the speakers. I feel like if you're going to make a record that's over 40 minutes long, there should be some surprises."
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Pete Caigan:
"The thing with recording live is just moving it all around until it sounds good."
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"It captured the richness and warmth typically associated with the Telefunken ELA M 251 tube mic, while offering convenience, consistency, and durability. I found it to be an impressive alternative for those seeking a classic sound without the steep price tag."
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Juana Molina: DOGA <p>I first stumbled upon Juana Molina's music in 2007. Her album <em>Un Dia</em> was a revelation, and I am not sure I had ever heard anything like it.  Unique voice, undulating trance inducing...

New Music from Juana Molina: DOGA
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The Novation Black Friday Sale is on now!
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Ed Kuepper of The Saints:
"The only experience with the art of recording that I had was a mono cassette deck, and sometimes I'd borrow someone else's cassette deck so that I could record something on one of them, then play something, and record that onto the other."
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With their latest album, is, My Morning Jacket handed over the production reins to storied producer Brendan O'Brien, who has worked with artists ranging from Bruce Springsteen to Pearl Jam. We chat with Jim James and Brendan on the latest Tape Op Podcast!
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West Virginia Snake Handler Revival: “They Shall Take Up Serpents” <p>West Virginia Snake Handler Revival <em>“They Shall Take Up Serpents”</em> marks the arrival of a landmark record, documenting the last snake handling church in Appalachia. Featuring hillbilly rock...

West Virginia Snake Handler Revival “They Shall Take Up Serpents” marks the arrival of a landmark record, documenting the last snake handling church in Appalachia.
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The Demon Box Estimated shipping is November 2025*Developed by Eternal Research, the Demon Box transforms the hidden electromagnetic world into sound, signal, light and data. It captures frequencies from everyday e...

Tired of the Ouija board?
You just might need an Eternal Research Demon Box.
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"It's the first commercial product from L.A.-based Eternal Research, and it's much more akin to a demonic science experiment than anything we've reviewed in the past."
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Stella Mozgawa:
"It's so fun to make music with people that I love and become close friends with. You can spend ten years drinking at bars with people, or you can play music with them."
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"Hamptone's HOC500 is a perfect adaptation of what Scott Hampton learned from designing the original HOC1 rack unit over a decade ago, with functions distilled down to a very usable and useful unit."
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Radius - Ring Mod Red Panda Radius ring modulator and frequency shifter

Add a little madness to your sound with Red Panda's Radius. It's ring modulator/frequency shifter with pitch tracking and an advanced LFO.
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Eli Crews Reviews the Pro Patchbay from Wolff Audio
"The value is clearly in how much it speeds up your patching workflow, and how it knocks down barriers to creativity."
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Listen to My Morning Jacket's Jim James and producer Brendan O'Brien chat about making the band's new album *is* on the latest Tape Op Podcast!⁠
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Larry Crane:
"This book is dead on the best practical, hardcore advice about real-life record-making that I've ever read."
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Turbo Atlanta-based producer and songwriter Chandler Durham, professionally known as Turbo, has been behind hits from Travis Scott, Gunna, Lil Baby, Nav, an

Turbo:
"Everybody in the neighborhood, all of my homies, used to come to my house and record for $20. My little package deal was, 'I'll give you a beat and you can record a song as long as it takes you for $20.'"
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New Music From Neko Case: Neon Grey Midnight Green <p>The new album from Neko Case [<em>Tape Op</em> #<a target=

"The new album from Neko Case, *Neon Grey Midnight Green*, is an adventurous listen that grew on me like fungus in a Florida swamp."
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For a limited time, AIAIAI are giving Tape Op readers $100 off a small batch of their low-latency wireless TMA-2 Studio Wireless headphones or $50 off the modular wired TMA-2 Studio XE headphones bundled with Ableton Live 12 Lite.
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Pete Caigan Pete Caigan, the studio manager and chief engineer for a revamped Utopia Studios Bearsville, is a longtime Woodstock-area resident and busy guy. Utopia is

Pete Caigan:
"You've got to be careful about manipulating music, as I'm sure you know. I frown upon it at this point. We do it a little, of course, but it's so much more preferable to have the person replay the part."
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David Lowery For over four decades, David Lowery has been an innovator and thought leader in the music business. As musician, he's the founder and leader of both i

DL:
"In a lot of ways, running a record label, being a songwriter, or being a producer is like quantitative finance whereby you're acquiring a lot of small bets that rarely pay off, but when they do, they make up for all the other losses. It's the same business."
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Turbo Atlanta-based producer and songwriter Chandler Durham, professionally known as Turbo, has been behind hits from Travis Scott, Gunna, Lil Baby, Nav, an

Turbo:
"Yeah, tell me where on Amazon the genre of music rulebook is? I mean, there’s not a fucking rule book, you know?"
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Stella Mozgawa I met Stella Mozgawa a decade or so ago at Panoramic, the studio I co-own, when she played drums on Cate Le Bon's Crab Day LP, produced by Noah George

Stella Mozgawa:
"I like to be as much of a chameleon as possible and try and read what the artist wants and needs. What's the dream scenario? Not mind reading, necessarily, but being a good sport and collaborator in the studio."
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Lord Huron's Ben Schneider is our guest on the new episode of the Tape Op Podcast! We chat about their new LP, The Cosmic Selector Vol.1, their Whispering Pines studio, and more!⁠
Ep. made possible with support from Radial Engineering
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"Whatever sound or music is passing through the Grace Design m701 sounds like the source and nothing else."
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