Recording

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.

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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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.

We make a rare visit to a world-class recording studio, as one of The Church’s engineers takes us through a recent session.

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Engineer Richard King has brought the art of ensemble recording to new heights in both classical and folk/pop spheres.