Recording

These files accompany the Mix Rescue article in the December 2015 issue of SOS.

Fred’s House: Our engineer overcomes lashings of speaker bleed as he massages a vocal–heavy mix into shape.

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Only big studios have the space, skills and equipment to track a full big band, right? Not necessarily...

Fans of singer–songwriter Ben Folds expect piano music — but a full–on piano concerto is certainly a new development!

Engineer Phil Hampson didn’t even like punk rock — yet, with an inexperienced Martin Hannett, he recorded one of the defining records of the era.

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To celebrate the magazine’s 30th birthday, the SOS team take a trip back in time, finding out what it was really like to work in a mid-’80s home studio.

One of the most misunderstood subjects in pro audio is control–room nearfield monitoring: the dos and don’ts, the problems and suggested remedies.

Greg Price has spent nearly 20 years at front of house for some of the biggest names in rock, and now his company believe they’ve perfected the art of live recordings.

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Like any good SOS readers, Scots electro-pop trio Chvrches used the success of their debut album to buy more synthesizers...

In 1987, swimming against the tide of MIDI–powered pop records, Cowboy Junkies went into a church to record an album into a single microphone in a single day.

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I’m currently looking into a new music PC build and wondered which Windows operating system you’d recommend.

I have an Electro-Harmonix Big Muff effects pedal that I’d like to try out on vocals, drums and possibly some other things during tracking.

My room is not ideally treated, especially in the corners near my monitors, which have no bass traps. Would it help to use monitors with bass ports on the front.

Can I link the S/PDIF out of my Boss DR-880 to the S/PDIF input of my Focusrite Scarlett 8i6 audio interface and get good results?

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Does today’s sample-based drum software mean we don’t need real drummers any more? We find out what a human session drummer offers that a virtual drummer can’t.

Live rooms and headphones can kill the mood for some vocalists — so why not ditch the cans and record in front of your monitors?