Recording

Britain’s most high‑profile rapper has made his most ambitious album yet — with a little help from his friends.

Gilla Band’s new album is one of the least normal things you’ll hear this year...

London‑based record producer, programmer and session musician Andy Wright chooses the drum sound from ‘Dirty Mind’, on Jeff Beck’s 2000 album You Had It Coming.

Ricky Reed has worked with a multitude of artists across a huge range of genres, most recently delivering a string of huge hits for Lizzo.

Beyoncé’s chart‑topping album Renaissance showcases a production process that’s all about staying in the moment.

Mark Mynett, talks us through prepping for and recording a bass session, including ways to generate multiple layered tracks for use in your final mix.

Howard Gray gives us a fascinating look behind the scenes of recording and engineering some of the biggest tracks of the '80s.

Producer Fred Gibson (aka Fred again..) studied under Brian Eno and has worked with some of the biggest artists in the world. And his favourite microphone is the one built into his iPhone.

We show you how to get great results from self‑recording singers.

Few artists straddle the line between classical and electronic music with as much success as Anna Meredith. We talk to her about the creation of her recent Mercury‑nominated album.

With the right guidance, iZotope's RX can remove problem sounds that would otherwise ruin a mix.

We show how iZotope's popular restoration package can deliver cleaner audio for your music projects.

In this episode, Mike Senior demonstrates several ways spill can actually improve the sound of your productions.

Ross Orton talks to Nigel Humberstone about his transition from playing drums with Jarvis Cocker into the world of production, remixing and songwriting. His steel city stories include working with Arctic Monkeys & Working Men’s Club.

Grammy Award-winning engineer and producer Dom Morley chats with Sam Inglis about the art and craft of recording and mixing vocals.

Distortion can be a surprisingly useful mix effect, if you know what you're doing. Mike Senior reveals several common applications, and explains how to get the best results in practice.

Welcome to Sound On Sound's regularly updated, indispensible explanations of technical terms from the fields of Recording, Audio Production, Music Technology, MIDI, Music Software, Audio Plug-ins, Mac and PC Computing, Live Sound, Acoustics, Electronics and more...

Time-alignment can help solve problems in multi-mic recordings — but it can also introduce new problems!

Mike Senior delves into some of the most common troubleshooting tasks when dealing with acoustic guitar recordings at mixdown, and shares his own favourite processing fixes.

If you're a musician, podcasting is the perfect application for the studio skills and equipment you already have.

Social distancing needn't mean the end of studio recording. We explain a simple, free setup for real-time online collaboration.