Mixing / Production

Are your videos looking a little flat? Make light work for you and you'll soon be creating depth and mood in even budget productions.

Drum replacement is now a routine production job in genres ranging from pop and indie to high-tempo metal, and even live sound.

Mumford & Sons have dragged acoustic music out of the folk clubs and straight to the top of the charts, with a sound sculpted by producer Markus Dravs and mix engineer Ruadhri Cushnan.

Is music really more likely to sell if it's louder? We come up with some hard evidence and some surprising answers.

With enough time and effort, you can get a reasonable mix from even poor recordings... but proper attention when recording will save you hours of frustration and get you a much better result much more quickly!

These audio files accompany the Mix Rescue article that featured in SOS March 2011.

This month, the SOS team tame a couple of square rooms and help a guitarist to master his Logic DAW setup.

Tortoise have spent the last 20 years defying the conventions of rock music — and forging a unique approach to studio recording.

Adam Powell now directs videos for some of the UK's top talent — but it all started when he made a skate video with a borrowed VHS camera.

Whether it's getting rid of the audio you don't want or improving the audio you do want, skilled editing can be the key to making your multitrack project sound polished.

Taylor Swift has become country music's biggest mainstream star, thanks in part to a stellar production team. Producer Nathan Chapman and mixer Justin Niebank lift the lid on Swift's latest hit album, Speak Now.

Neil Young has made his share of experimental albums, but his latest might be the most extreme, thanks to Daniel Lanois' revolutionary approach to live dub mixing.

Taking on a new genre is a great way to test your mixing skills, as we found out when we took on this goth track by The Hiram Key...

These audio files accompany the Mix Rescue article that featured in SOS February 2011.

I've got a recording of an acoustic guitar that I'm loath to re‑record, but there are several sections in which string buzz is...

Our Mix Rescue expert dips his toe in the Studio SOS waters this month, as he visit's a reader's studio, sorts out his monitoring, and takes him through strategies to improve his mixing.

Today's multitrack software packages give us endless flexibility to manipulate the audio we've recorded, but the possibilities can be confusing to begin with. We introduce the tools of the audio editor's trade...

In 2005, a stroke left Edwyn Collins paralysed and unable to remember how to use any of his amazing collection of vintage gear. Together, he and his recording partner Seb Lewsley relearned the studio from scratch.

Phil Collins began recreating the classic Motown sound as a form of therapy. With the help of engineer Yvan Bing, the results gave Collins his first number one album in 17 years.

This month, we hunt out the devils in the detail of a metal mix!

Audio files to accompany the article.