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Andy Hong

Boston

Columnist at Tape Op Magazine

Tape Op Magazine • The Music Playground • The Station • Kimchee Records

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  • 5 days ago | tapeop.com | John Baccigaluppi |Larry Crane |Ian Brennan |Andy Hong

    đźš§ We are launching a new site and some features are currently unavailable. We will be fully back online soon. đźš§ ISSUE #90 Jul 2012 Jim Williams has spent much of his 56 years working with some of the biggest names in the music business, including Frank Zappa, John McLaughlin and Stevie Wonder.

  • 1 week ago | tapeop.com | John Baccigaluppi |Larry Crane |Ian Brennan |Andy Hong

    đźš§ We are launching a new site and some features are currently unavailable. We will be fully back online soon. đźš§ ISSUE #51 Jan 2006 At the end of the afternoon, Martin said, "Oh, by the way, I'm just thinking. The problem with having too much material to work with... I think the mind can't really remember like five takes or seven takes. I actually find that three is absolutely the limit. Four fucks it up.

  • 3 weeks ago | tapeop.com | John Baccigaluppi |Larry Crane |Ian Brennan |Andy Hong

    đźš§ We are launching a new site and some features are currently unavailable. We will be fully back online soon. đźš§ ISSUE #119 May 2017 I have been a big fan of spring and plate reverbs for decades, and over the past three years I have spent a significant amount of time diving into the wormhole of designing and building them, initially for my own use and now for others.

  • 3 weeks ago | tapeop.com | John Baccigaluppi |Larry Crane |Ian Brennan |Andy Hong

    When asked to come up with a "do it yourself" tube mic pre project, I thought long and hard about what topology to go with. I designed a number of different hybrid tube/discrete class A designs (eliminating transformers because of their large expense) but ultimately settled upon a classic tube/transformer- coupled design. The thought being, if you are going to spend the time to build it, then make it worth the effort.

  • 3 weeks ago | tapeop.com | John Baccigaluppi |Larry Crane |Ian Brennan |Andy Hong

    🚧 We are launching a new site and some features are currently unavailable. We will be fully back online soon. 🚧 ISSUE #61 Sep 2007 Nicolas Collins's book, Handmade Electronic Music: The Art Of Hardware Hacking, is a brilliant, hands-on guide to electronic music making. I've known Nic since the mid-1970s; he's been a friend, a colleague, a collaborator and a mentor, yet he never ceases to amaze me with his latest bit of music or techno-logical innovation.

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Andy Hong @TapeOpGeek
27 Sep 19

WTF!!! @hebakadryy you don't need that sh_t. You're an incredible mastering engineer and an amazing human. Eff that guy and that situation. Glad to hear that you're 100% in control. Everyone else out there -- Heba is the real thing. She does stellar work.

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Andy Hong
Andy Hong @TapeOpGeek
19 Feb 19

RT @danideahl: This auto-tuned cat letting out sweet, little T-Pain yowls is 100 percent the best way I have ever discovered a new plug-in…

Andy Hong
Andy Hong @TapeOpGeek
8 Feb 19

Definitely worth reading — interview with Michael Abbott, audio coordinator of the Grammys, by @danideahl. Insightful and inspiring. Educational and entertaining. Funny too. Very @tapeopmag like.

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Why the Grammys sound amazing and sometimes go wrong https://t.co/zKw0GF1foF https://t.co/pLuHlwqJwT