Mixing / Production

Eddie Bazil of Samplecraze explores the various ways that delay effects can be used and applies these techniques to a finished composition.

We try to improve a gypsy jazz mix, and discover that even the best references need to be taken with a pinch of salt.

Audio files to accompany SOS May 2021's Saturation Stratgeies workshop.

RAK Studios engineer Isabel Gracefield undergoes our questioning.

Saturation effects can be used in different ways to make mixing easier. Find out how...

Despite the challenges of producing the album remotely, Dave Fridmann’s work on the latest Mogwai album saw the band top the charts for the very first time.

Audio Files

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Olivia Rodrigo stormed the charts earlier this year with her breakthrough single ‘Drivers License’. LA’s rising star Mitch McCarthy talks us through the mix.

Bands are still recording music even though they can’t use professional studios or play together — and this means new challenges for mix engineers.

The way pop music is made and consumed has changed radically in the last few years. Pete Rycroft, aka Lostboy, has adapted better than most...

Why let guitarists have all the fun? Stompboxes can be inspirational mixing tools.

These audio examples accompany April 2021's Lockdown Mixdown article.

As one third of the second incarnation of Scritti Politti, David Gamson was the man behind the polished, groove-laden sound of the band’s second album Cupid & Psyche ’85 and their third album, Provision.

Eddie Bazil gives us an introduction into the creative use of Phasers, with practical examples using drums, vocals and synth pads.

The pandemic gave Taylor Swift a chance to explore new musical paths, with two lockdown albums co‑written and produced by the National’s Aaron Dessner.

From sketches to final mixes, engineer Jonathan Low spent 2020 overseeing Taylor Swift’s hit lockdown albums folklore and evermore.

In our quickfire survey, we find out more about the recipient of the 2019 MPG Breakthrough Engineer of the Year award.

As if being in charge of the largest studio group in the world wasn’t enough, Miloco director Pete Hofmann also found time to mix the latest album from the UK’s biggest dance‑pop group, Steps.

I’m trying to understand the panning being used in a particular song in which the verse has a guitar that appears to be almost completely right‑panned. However, in the chorus the guitar comes in on the left too...