I'm responsible for live sound at a lot of small shows where there isn't the budget for a separate monitor desk or engineer....
Phrases like 'digital clocking', 'word clock' and 'interface jitter' are bandied around a lot in the pages of Sound On Sound....
Most of the recording I do involves tracking several musicians playing together in a room. I'd like to use a stereo pair to...
Cochlear implants help the profoundly deaf experience sound. But can users overcome the limitations of the technology to understand music?
When I listen to MP3s on a PC or Apple Mac, they are all at different levels, with the louder ones seeming twice as loud as the quietest ones.
I have come to the conclusion that wow and flutter are a lot more important in the sound of tape and analogue recordings than...
I've been wondering: when was recording to a click first used? And when did it start to become widely used?
I have to edit eight tracks of drums on six songs. Generally there are four to six takes. I'm using Cubase 5 and would like to...
Due to space and other limitations, I am not able to mic up my amp, so I'm going to have to rely on plug-ins for my guitar...
I did the sound for a new band last night and spent the first set sorting the keyboards out, which failed in the second song....
SOS contributor Mike Senior offers some advice.
I have a set of Atacama SE1000 speaker stands, but at one metre, they're just a tad too high. I've used Blu-Tack on my current...
I wonder if you can help me with a relatively minor problem that seems to cause a lot of undue irritation! In my work, I tend...
Last month, you gave me some advice on identifying why the vocals on my track weren't audible when I played it in my car [see...
Imagine you've tracked guitar, bass, vocals, and so on, and have multiple takes, all at slightly (or maybe radically)...
I've noticed that a lot of producers still like to record guitar and bass cabinets with microphones, even though there are...
I've noticed a lot of microphones on the market lately that have odd-shaped diaphragms: for example, there's a Pearl model...
I want to trial some microphones on a 60-piece school orchestra performance, and I only get one shot at positioning the mics....
I need to digitally encode some old tape cassettes and am wondering what bit depth and sample rate would be optimal. The...
I've seen shipping containers used on building sites for various purposes, and it got me wondering about putting a little...
I have read that the optimum sample rate to record at is 88.2kHz. The reasons include simple integer-ratio sample-rate...
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