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You do sound out there. My first tape machine, which I got in 1993, was an ADAT. I've been ADAT and Performer (Digital Performer) ever since. I can't understand these people who have "outdated format" problems. ADAT and Performer, like total duh. All I've ever known was digital recording and I gotta...

And what about that special feeling when the session is done, everyone has left, and you're standing there, just kind of soaking it in that this is your life, revelling in the achievements of the day. Eh?

Another sad NT-1 owner. Actually I have two, but then I always get two of everything. The problem is the mic is so incredibly brittle and bright, it's like it was designed specifically to record shattering glass from several hundred yards away. (On the other hand, my two NT-1000's are great, if a li...

I do alot of live recording-- orchestra/chorus, jazz bands, rocks bands, folkies, so my rig tends to overkill maybe, but I've always got the bases covered. Matter of fact, my next great triumph will be building my "rolling rack"--and the key is having those stair crawlers to tip the thing back and r...

Well, you've got to remember the intensity of the dedication you felt in the early days. You were achieving blistering, mind-bending things. The exaltation, the sense of creating reality, almost-- that's certainly why I would pore over things, every microscopic turn of a dial a whole new manifesto. ...

Woke up. Fell out of bed. Dragged a comb acrost my head. Shovelled the snow from the driveway. Loaded my gear into my car ('69 Nova) to record a concert at 3. Called the highway department. Are they going to plow the road anytime soon? Got dressed up in my classical-music-recording-disguise suit and...

Okayyyyyyyyyyyy... like a good complimentary copy of MIX subscriber, I was all ready to answer their survey, and then it got to the question of how many trucks do I use in my mining operations?

Does Jeff Robinson even have any trucks for mining? What?

I just made my worst mistake last week. It had to do with sample rate at 44.1, clock at 48, and no prompt to let me know. I ended up running off three sets of 10 CDs for a guy who'd brought a shitty DAT in with his daughters playing violin. I was so obsessed with trying desperately to salvage some k...

I don't know how many of you were even born in 1994, so I'll set the scene: it was a time of great freedom, but also great frustration. Things that had been promised were indeed coming true--but it wasn't like we'd planned. At all. In the dream, I've gotten a lift, hitchhiking, from a frantic, frene...

I've just finished a project that resulted in a 37 (thirty seven, one at a time) CD set of the collected concert performances of one of the truly vital composers of the Twentieth Century, no one you've ever heard of and neither had I. Quality ranged widely--finest was a Carnegie Hall concert from th...

Ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to the new TapeOp Board... All Jeff, All The Time!

Why, at the very dawn of my career. My dad had brought home a little open reel tape deck, with 3" reels, and I'd been recording my favorite theme songs off the tv. Upon reviewing my work, I noticed that I'd lost mic contact, maybe it was in the middle of the theme for "The Fugitive." Just for an ins...

I also have two of these, and they were also my first compressors. I think there's a genetic predisposition to Project 1 266's amongst the population. I still carry one around in my portable rack, for emergencies... which about sums up my feelings, better than nothing at all but only slightly. I ALS...

No, I think the message of the dream is-- SM 57's are really the all-purpose Swiss Army tool of modern life. I use mine for hammers all the time.

Hey there Dave, I used a Ramsa 16 channel mixer in my studio for years and years. It was great! There were ways to drive in into the red and get a warm, glowing mix-with-a-good-buzz-on sound that was fantastic. Recently I picked up a new Allen & Heath 12 channel (or 16, if four of those can come in ...