Mixing / Production

As their new album reveals, there’s a lot more to the minimalist, abrasive sound of Sleaford Mods than meets the ear.

Mikado Koko is an off‑the‑wall thinker, with music to match...

Will Purton is a London-based recording engineer, mixer and producer nominated in the Rising Star category for the 2023 Music Producers Guild Awards.

Daniel Moyler is a freelance mix engineer who was awarded Engineer Of The Year at the MPG 2020 Awards and won a 2021 Grammy for his engineering work on Dua Lipa's album Future Nostalgia.

Sam Inglis talks to Francine Perry, artist, producer and mix engineer, about her career so far and being nominated in the Rising Star category for her work with Beth Orton, Erasure and HAAi while based at Mute Studio.

Cecil (Adam) Bartlett is a London-based producer who talks to Sam Inglis about his career so far and being nominated in this year's Breakthrough Producer Of The Year category for his work on Here Is Everything by The Big Moon.

Manon Grandjean is a freelance mix engineer who has previously won three Music Producers Guild Awards. This year she's been nominated again for Mix Engineer Of The Year 2023, this time for her work with artists Flo, Fyfe & Iskra Strings and Milk & Bone.

Mikko Gordon is a Grammy nominated mixing engineer and record producer based in London. This year he's nominated by the Music Producers Guild for Recording Engineer Of The Year and Album Of The Year along with Nigel Godrich for The Smile: A Light for Attracting Attention.

Catherine Anne Davies, also known as The Anchoress, is a songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and producer. Sam Inglis talks to her about being nominated for Self Producing Artist in the Music Producers Guild Awards 2023.

Eddie Bazil demystifies Compression and Expansion with a detailed explanation of their uses, which he demonstrates using plug-ins through seven practical examples.

American producer, engineer and mixer Ed Stasium nominates the drum sound on Living Colour’s ‘Love Rears Its Ugly Head’ as a particular favourite.

It’s no surprise that SZA’s long‑awaited second album has been a hit. More surprising was the key role of little‑known engineer and producer Rob Bisel.

Ever thought you were nearing the end of your mix, only to realise the track needs a whole lot more impact?

Deep in rural Pembrokeshire, South West Wales, engineer and producer Owain Fleetwood Jenkins has built a paradisal residential studio in an abandoned chapel...

As a mix engineer, it’s your job to give clients what they want — but what they say and what they mean aren’t always quite the same...

These audio files accompany the Mix Rescue article in SOS March 2023, featuring the song 'Sunshine' by Jeff Hirata.

The buzz around immersive visual media is creating plenty of new opportunities for those who record spoken word for a living. But how do these new jobs differ from traditional ones?

American record producer, engineer and mixer Bob Clearmountain unpacks Neil Finn’s vocal from the Crowded House track ‘I Feel Possessed’.

When you’ve learned your craft from Manny Marroquin, you can mix on almost any system — as Jeremie Inhaber proved with Meghan Trainor’s ‘Made You Look’.

Adding a horn section to your productions can bring everything from mellow melancholy to verve and excitement.

With hit albums for Dave, Wizkid and now Stormzy, Brazilian‑American mixer Leandro Hidalgo is at the top of his game.