Recording

Central to Atlanta’s white-hot rap scene is producer Zaytoven, who brings a West Coast flavour to trap.

His quest to capture the spirit of Avebury led former Radiophonic Workshop composer Steve Marshall to develop some unique experimental recording techniques.

Grammy-winning producer Ian Brennan discusses his approach to working with unique artists in outdoor locations around the world.

When you’re recording a Morrissey album, you need to be ready for anything...

We continue our trek through the production of Damnation’s Hammer’s latest album: did all that pre-production effort pay dividends in the studio?

In this three-part series, we follow the painstaking production of a metal album, all the way from rehearsals to release.

Coldcut’s version of Eric B & Rakim’s ‘Paid In Full’ launched their career and reinvented the concept of the remix at the same time.

Karl Marx predicted that history would repeat itself as farce — but he never saw a role for expert pop parody!

I need to do some recording of spoken word, using a cheap and cheerful lavalier mic, but it’s noisy — there’s a steady ‘hiss’. Is there some plug-in that can reduce said noise, perhaps by taking a sample of it and then adding it out of phase?

By turning your hotel room into a project studio, you can deliver broadcast-quality VO tracks when you travel.

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Keeping the BBC’s flagship classical music show at the top of its game requires serious engineering skill — and the ability to cope with the unexpected!

Why do people recommend a condenser microphone over a dynamic? I know it’s an idiot question, but I’m new to...

I have a very high quality D-A converter that boasts particularly low clock-jitter figures, so I thought it would be an ideal candidate to serve as a master clock — yet it doesn’t have a word-clock output socket!

Pro7ect 2017: producer Ian Wallman describes a unique collaborative project in an unusual space!

Cappellino is one of Nashville’s most respected engineers. In this second video, we go behind the scenes and gain unprecedented access to a vocal recording and comping session with singer Heather Bond. Pick up useful tips for speeding through vocal recording while achieving a great result and find out how Neal puts together the perfect take.

DJ Shadow’s Endtroducing wasn’t just a staggering technical achievement. It also reimagined a whole musical genre.

Why does everyone, pros and all, say that the snare bottom mic is ‘out of phase’, and that its polarity must be reversed? Isn’t it the top mic that should be reversed?

Will the audio quality from an Allen & Heath XB-10 paired with a JK Audio Innkeeper telephone hybrid be better than the Allen & Heath ZED-10, also paired with an Innkeeper?

We find out whether a unique choir and a unique church will prove a match made in heaven.

A move to the country led the National to rethink their recording process and embrace studio experimentation as never before.