Mixing / Production

Hip-hop collective Brockhampton abandoned their home studios for Abbey Road — and left with a number one album.

Hone your listening skills, as we dissect more hits from a recording and production perspective. This month: Freya Ridings, Marshmello (feat. Bastille), Ella Mai, and our classic mix is Aretha Franklin ‘I Never Loved A Man (The Way I Love You)’ (1967).

To mark its 50th anniversary, two bands have taken to the stage to pay homage to Wendy Carlos’s classic crossover album Switched-On Bach.

The brief for supplying a sound system for a youth piano concert was to make the rig look and sound as transparent as possible...

In a world where almost everyone is mixing ‘in the box’, Mark Ralph and Clean Bandit have gone the other way.

You don’t have to play synths or ‘real’ instruments to make music: embrace the experimental, and you could use almost anything...

Brush up on your listening skills, as we dissect more hits from a recording and production perspective. This month: Mabel, Big Shaq, Eminem (feat. Joyner Lucas) and our classic mix is Petula Clark 'Downtown' (1965).

MsM’s bedroom studio in North London helped put grime on the map. Since then, both engineer and music have gone on to bigger things...

For his recent tour of the States, synthwave star Seth Haley, aka Com Truise, has had to adapt his complex studio setup to life on the road.

David Guetta is the global superstar who brought EDM out of the underground and into the mainstream.

Together with David Guetta, French producer and composer Fred Rister created the hits that made EDM a global phenomenon.

The songs of ABBA are reaching new generations of fans, thanks to a second hit musical movie. Bernard Löhr was the engineer who recaptured them!

I read your feature on gain staging a few years ago, but I’ve been following some blogs that say it isn’t at all necessary if you’re just working in software. Who’s right?

I recently watched a YouTube video in which it was recommended that you match the input and output level of every plug-in in a mix session...

You can do so much more with noise gates and expanders than nix unwanted noise...

Beyoncé and Jay-Z topped charts worldwide with their album Everything Is Love. Stu White was the engineer who made it possible.

Brush up on your listening skills, as we dissect some hits from a recording and production perspective. This month: Portugal The Man, Lost Frequencies & Zonderling, Calvin Harris & Dua Lipa, Jay-Z and Run-DMC.

Success as a songwriter didn’t fulfil Niles Hollowell-Dhar, so he reinvented himself as KSHMR to conquer the world of EDM.

K‑pop is a truly global music style, and BTS’s successful assault on the US charts was led by a British mix engineer.