This book features interviews and articles from issues 11 to 20 of "Tape Op Magazine", an independently published magazine founded in 1997. With a fiercely loyal readership, "Tape Op" covers creative and practical music recording topics - from the famous studios to musicians creating masterpieces in their bedrooms. Creativity, technique, equipment, passion and learning collide in this entertaining, value-rich publication. Interviews and articles in this volume include Abbey Road Studio, Butch Vig, Jim Dickinson, Joe Chiccarelli, Ani DeFranco, Fugazi, The Flaming Lips, and Ween.