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An MPG poll has found that studios are paying between 250 and 400 percent more for their electricity now than they were in 2021. This has been a heavy blow, and it’s about to get a lot worse.

Deep in rural Pembrokeshire, South West Wales, engineer and producer Owain Fleetwood Jenkins has built a paradisal residential studio in an abandoned chapel...

Multitrack recording at home, a decade before the Portastudio...

What impact will machine learning and AI have on the arts?

Macau‑born Jessica Wong began her production career at Boston’s prestigious Berklee School Of Music before relocating to Atlanta, where she can often be found working in the Madison Records studio in nearby Chamblee, Georgia.

While ambient music can be stereotyped as meditative or calming, it bridges the gaps between noise and silence, helping us find solace.

Over time, accurate observations about specific things have a tendency to dissolve into dubious generalisations...

Combining deft production and fluent beat‑making with no‑holds‑barred spoken word and singing, Bristol’s Billy Nomates, aka Tor Maries, has enjoyed a fast ascent to cult success.

I bought my first CD player in 1984. I had been lusting for one since I first saw/heard the new format three years earlier,...

When Stormzy agreed to be interviewed for this month’s cover feature, he set one condition. We would, he insisted, be...

Many years ago, a manufacturer who shall remain nameless sent us two iterations of their new product...

Ugandan producer and performance artist Tayo Alemi, aka Authentically Plastic, creates experimental electronic music.

My first experience with distortion was with guitar pedals. There was something amazing about physically stomping on a device...

Teno Afrika, aka Lutendo Raduvha, is one of South Africa’s fastest‑rising electronic music stars. 

Could live streaming open up fresh worlds for your music?

Spatial audio needs to offer more than just an iterative improvement — and if that’s going to happen, producers and musicians are the people who need to make it happen.

The electric guitar — has there ever been an instrument so identified with rebellion, with danger, with transgression?

How bad will the cost of living crisis get? Energy prices are forecast to rise by hundreds of percent this autumn. Inflation...

Are manufacturers becoming more willing to pursue original design concepts?

Malena Zavala pauses her cross‑cultural synth‑guitar pop career to answer SOS's nine core production questions...

Sometimes you need to free yourself from the reign of the click track and headphones...