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Legendary engineer on Thriller Bruce Swedien has been the engineer of choice for Michael Jackson and his producer Quincy Jones, among many others. In a rare interview, he lays bare the techniques behind some of the superstar’s biggest hits.
Leader Editor-In-Chief Paul White recommends we all keep that live vibe in our recordings...
Readers’ Music Reviewed With a backlog of recorded material to wade through, the intrepid SOS crew brandish their Strictly Come Dancing judges' outfits and proffer their personal verdicts on another bunch of masochistic readers' hard-crafted recordings...
Inside Track: Tinchy Stryder Producer and songwriter Fraser T Smith has made the unlikely journey from prog rock to grime. With Tinchy Stryder, his broad experience has paid off in the shape of three massive hit singles.
Jem Godfrey Vintage synthesizers: can you love them too much?
Technique
How to make your music pay As Apple and Spotify mark out the boundaries of the ‘sharing’ culture, copyright owners are still looking for ways to make their music pay in a digital age.
Producers: REM, Mitch Easter, Don Dixon REM’s first single wasn’t just an embryonic form of the style and sound that would later make them so successful, it was also a gem of the American new wave. But it took a long time coming...
Audio Examples From Cubase Techniques November 2009 Links to Audio files which accompany this month's Cubase techniques article.
Cubase Notes & Techniques More than just a pitch-correction tool, Cubase’s VariAudio offers a means of extracting MIDI data from audio files.
Digital Performer Notes & Techniques When you need to tweak or re-work a track to produce alternative versions, DP has features that make it easy.
The SOS Guide To Recording & Producing Modern Metal Extreme metal music demands, and expects, extreme skills from producers and engineers. In Part 1 of this in-depth masterclass, we explain the techniques that go into crafting modern metal sounds.
Video interviews from Extreme Metal production masterclass [Part 1] The following video interviews accompany this month's Extreme Metal: Recording Metal Music (Part 1) masterclass.
Logic Notes & Techniques Part 1: Try out Logic 9’s show-stopper addition, Flex Time, which lets you manipulate audio timing as never before.
Audio Examples From Mix Rescue November 2009
Going beyong the mix Being a mix engineer isn’t only about mixing, as we show when revamping Bobby Nobody’s track, ‘Stitch Up’.
Sonar Notes & Techniques Sonar 8.5’s VX64 Vocal Strip offers new possibilities for vocal processing.
Intel’s new i5 and i3 CPUs Powerful CPUs seem to get cheaper by the day, as evidenced by Intel’s new i5 and i3 series, which promise enough grunt for even demanding musicians, but with a lower price tag than the popular i7 range.
Pro Tools Notes & Techniques The Region List in Pro Tools is easy to overlook, but provides the most powerful way to keep track of what’s in your Session.
Reason Notes & Techniques We help you to bring your old Reason songs into the Record era.
Taming a reflective room This month, we tame a reflective room, tweak vocal compressors and slay the Blue Screen Of Death.
Music Business
TV Music From The Inside The global financial meltdown would never have happened if only KPMG had modelled themselves on KPM.
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