Recording

More of your submissions get the once-over by the SOS editorial staff.

Grit your teeth for another bout of "constructive criticism" of more reader recordings.

CD Of The Month - 300ft Gorilla

Gorilla Tactics

300ft Gorilla are a...

The editorial team assess another clutch of recordings from more willing masochists.

Another round-up of your compositions...

Another group of masochists offer their self-recordings up for scrutiny by the SOS editorial team. Read it and weep?

You've got four weeks left until your studio closes. How to make best use of that time? The Walkmen's answer was to recreate their favourite album, note for note, in all its drunken and shambolic glory.

When The Beatles' record company tempted their producer out of retirement for one last project, no-one had any idea how radical the resulting album would be.

More of your recordings scrutinised by the SOS crew...

Martin Rushent managed the rare double feat of working at the artistic cutting edge and having colossal success — until disaster struck.

The Savants

Medz 4 Life

I've been trying to reconstruct the...

Their combination of Southern soul and hip-hop gave Gnarls Barkley one of the biggest hits of the year, thanks in part to the mixing wizardry of Ben Allen.

The Scissor Sisters' first album, recorded in a Manhattan apartment, sold 3.5 million copies worldwide. The follow-up, Ta-Dah, sees them expanding their horizons, while keeping their DIY ethos very much intact.

After 17 years mixing almost everything that came out of Jam & Lewis's Flyte Tyme Studios, there's very little Steve Hodge doesn't know about making R&B records work.

As a solo artist, producer and member of the Velvet Underground, John Cale has had a hand in some of the most influential records ever made.

Despite his best efforts, Stephen Duffy's solo work never quite made him a superstar — but it did get him one of the best co-writing gigs around.

Jim Abbiss decided to go back to basics and make records the way he wanted to make them. The result? The fastest-selling debut album in history...

Japan's YMO helped pioneer the use of electronic instruments and sampling. Now Uwe Schmidt, aka Señor Coconut, has used the same techniques to render their greatest hits as Latin dances, with contributions from all three original YMO members.

Morph The Cat, Donald Fagen's third solo album in 24 years, sees Fagen and engineer Elliott Scheiner continue their quest for the best possible sound quality — which, it seems, comes only from analogue recording.

The idea of bringing folk music up to date is not a new one, but few people have taken it quite as far as Jim Moray. His material may be traditional, but his approach to music technology is as modern as it gets.

David Gilmour's chart-topping solo album was recorded on his own Astoria houseboat, a floating slice of studio heaven. Engineer Andy Jackson describes the making of the album.