Recording

Chris Watson’s fascination with location sound recording has taken him to some of the most remote places on Earth, where climatic extremes and uncooperative wildlife push his equipment and skills to their limits.

Cypress Hill’s crossover classic launched the group into the mainstream — and without sampling a single horse...

To showcase the band to promoters and festival bookers, singer‑songwriter Greg McDonald wanted to film an 'as live' main‑stage performance by the full band line‑up...

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

Recording an acoustic guitar duo in two separate rooms means great separation, but a lot of work to make the different spaces sound alike!

Begun as an experiment, ‘Sweet Dreams’ launched Eurythmics to international stardom and is still filling dancefloors to this day.

This month’s Studio SOS challenge was to help a college music department get a better recorded drum sound.

When Grammy-winning engineer Vance Powell has to track an entire record in a day, you can rest assured he has some tricks up his sleeve…

When you can’t crank up the amp and mic it up, what’s the best way to record electric guitar?

It may be famous for its difficult birth, but Loveless was a technical triumph. My Bloody Valentine’s Kevin Shields tells us the story behind their breathtakingly original album.

Recording a library of acoustic guitar samples highlighted the importance of repeatability, blind testing, small lasers and double‑sided sticky tape.

Working with a producer and an ambitious timescale, our engineer planned ahead for the best chances of a good result.

Our engineer figures out the best way to capture a dozen songs in a single afternoon.

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.

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.