Mixing / Production

10 concise tips to achieving a better bass sound in your mixes.

As frontman with Queens Of The Stone Age, Josh Homme is arguably the biggest name in rock music. So how would he tackle a move into the producers chair with British indie superstars Arctic Monkeys?

Britains biggest name in mixing, Mark Spike Stent has achieved international success in almost every genre. With Muses latest album, The Resistance, he was dealing with rock at its most epic.

We go hip-hop this month, as we aim for a Dr Dre-style sound with Preslin Davis' track 'Side Effects', and highlight the importance of artist-engineer dialogue.

I'm working on a song and have all the parts nailed, but I think the outro chorus is lacking something, so I've decided to try...

I've been reading about how you have to be quite precise in matching the distance from source to mic when multi‑miking guitar...

If I buy a sample library, I usually drop its contents into the 'Sample Library' folder on my hard drive, but that's ended up...

These audio files accompany the Mix Rescue article that featured in SOS January 2010.

Noisy, muffled, incoherent recordings are an audio engineers worst nightmare, but all too often they contain vital evidence in criminal trials. Its the job of the forensic audio specialist to extract that evidence.

When French DJ David Guetta and American singer Kelly Rowland combined to produce one of the biggest crossover hits of 2009, the hands on the faders belonged to Veronica Ferraro.

This month we look at ways to manipulate transients and make use of those all-important send effects, as we take on Jay Menon's ballad, 'Through My Eyes'.

I record and mix in my 'studio', which isn't too great acoustically. I can manage somehow when mixing, by working on...

I'm looking for some in‑depth education on the subject of parallel compression, with respect to its application in the...

I'm trying to figure out how I would create a really old‑style, warm‑sounding distortion/crackle on a string motif for an...

It took rapper Speech Debelle years to find a producer who could bring to life the sounds in her head. The answer, as Wayne Bennett discovered, was to record her music as if it were a folk album.

If your plug-in synths sound a bit cold and clinical, there are plenty of ways to inject some life...

Here is a selection of audio files to accompany this month's Mix Rescue of Jay Menon's ballad 'Through My Eyes'. You can...

Imogen Heap travelled the world to write songs for her new album — and recorded it in her childhood playroom, with the help of some unusual toys!

Behind every rap megastar, theres a very talented engineer. Young Guru was at the desk throughout the recording and mixing of Jay-Zs latest smash-hit album, The Blueprint 3.

Some tips to help you and your laptop survive in the brutal world of live music.

In the second part of our masterclass on the production of modern metal music, we explain what makes a great metal mix.