Recording

The challenge of creating a glass-themed sound world for her third album led Agnes Obel to explore some little-used instruments and techniques.

Like their debut, Bastille’s Wild World was recorded in a South London basement — but this time around, the band were global superstars.

Singer, songwriter and producer Jack Garratt is only 24, yet his debut album Phase still draws on a decade’s experience in the music business.

Grammy-winning producer/engineer Vance Powell welcomes SOS to Sputnik Sound in Nashville to show us how he recorded a track for rock act Tyler Bryant & The Shakedown.

PJ Harvey’s long-term co-producer John Parish is uncompromising in his willingness to experiment — even with the world watching!

The Don Camillo Chor: Our engineer records a choir singing in their practice room, and tries to make it sound like it was captured in a church!

Sylvia Massy shares weird recording tips

Fusing experimental electronic styles with hip-hop elements, the beat scene is where we find the subject of this month’s video feature...

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Zwiepack: Our engineer captured one jazz session using two completely different recording techniques. Which one won the day?

How do you extract a complete album from a dysfunctional band with no finished songs? Drag them to a remote residential studio — in winter...

We sit down with Chambers and producer/engineer Richard Flack (Joe Strummer, Rudimental, Paloma Faith) in Guy’s beautifully equipped Sleeper Sounds studio in West London.

Hal Ritson is one of the most in-demand producers on the deep-house scene. Here, he reveals the secrets behind the genre’s distinctive vocal sounds.

When Ornette Coleman died last year, a planned celebration of his 85th birthday turned into an epic tribute album. Either way, no-one wanted a “jazz guy” to mix it...

When cult funk band Cymande returned to the studio, they insisted on hiring the same production team — 41 years after their previous album...

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This month, producer and engineer Nicolas Vernhes welcomes us into his Brooklyn studio, Rare Book Room.

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We pull a problematic live recording back from the brink.