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Brush up on your listening skills, as we dissect some hits from a recording and production perspective. This month: Lorde, Pablo Ziegler Trio, Chris Stapleton and Shakira.

Recorded sound is an illusion, and as I think I’ve said before, stereo is doubly so. In real life what we hear is sound coming...

Does the concept of ownership mean anything in the software studio?

Are we losing touch with what ‘human’ sounds like?

Brush up on your listening skills, as we dissect some hits from a recording and production perspective. This month: The Infamous Stringbusters, Logic, Chris Stapleton, NF, and Whitney Houston.

It’s always interesting to speculate on what the future might hold for music technology, so maybe it’s time to wipe the dust off the old crystal ball...

Today’s TV composers have no choice but to operate a Zen studio. Where’s the fun in that?

AI is yet to find its place in music production — but it’s only a matter of time...

If you are trying to make a living in the music industry at the moment, you might ask yourself "What are my chances?"

We discuss another handful of hit records, to help you brush up on your listening skills.

As regular readers of Sound On Sound might know, one of my Christmas rituals involves dismantling my studio, pruning away anything I haven’t used in a while and then putting it all back together again...

They say that absolute power corrupts absolutely. But it does give you a certain amount of artistic freedom.

Gender equality in music production still has a way to go.

Is bigger always better... or just bigger?

We discuss another handful of hit records, to help you brush up on your listening skills. This month: Cardi B • Rak-Su • Eminem ft Ed Sheeran • Classic Mix: The Animals ‘House Of The Rising Sun’ (1964).

Around this time of year I often get asked what I expect to see at the Winter NAMM show...

If only we could all work together, we could compete against each other more effectively.

Tax breaks offer some hope for our ailing industry.

Messing with meter makes for more memorable music.

We discuss another handful of hit records, to help you brush up on your listening skills.

If you make and record music using computers, as most of us do, you rely heavily on technology and have to come to terms with the fact that things can sometimes change more quickly than you might like.