Recording

I listen to a lot of well-produced material and it all has an inherent sense of space and positioning.

I know it changes settings according to the source material, but how does the 'automatic recovery' function on a compressor work.

I understand that data-compressing audio files is really just chopping out frequencies we think we don't need, but I don't understand what encoders do to go the other way.

I've recently added some new gear to my PC-based studio and now get low-level whistling noises through my loudspeakers that...

I've been searching to find a sensible answer to this question to no avail...

Can you suggest any free or affordable anti‑virus software for Windows that doesn't keep nagging me with updates and pop-ups?...

I still buy vinyl records simply because I like listening to them, but I'm under no illusion that vinyl is a 'perfect' format...

I'm really interested in mixing, but I need decent material to practice on, and I don't think my performance and recording...

I've tried Nebula (with Reaper) and, sonically speaking, I really like what it can do, but the best libraries have my computer...

In a shop recently, I was almost persuaded to buy some Mogami XLR cables.

I'm a long time reader of Sound On Sound, and a studio owner. A colleague of mine recently discovered that the suite of...

I have several cassette tapes of concerts and recitals recorded when I was at music college in the '70s, which I want to transfer to CD, cleaning up the recordings in the process.

Is it worth using 96kHz or 192kHz sampling rates? Or do they just mean that my interfaces have exciting-looking numbers...

I'm really interested in the vocal sound on Haim's debut album, Days Are Gone — could you tell me what sort of processing might be involved in this album?

I keep reading in your mic reviews about the sound being more natural when hitting a mic on-axis. Does this mean that there’s a risk of coloration with the ORTF technique right in the centre of the stereo image?

The Internet is changing every facet of the music business — including live performance. There's never been a better time to take to the cyber-stage.

I keep reading advice that it's bad for a padded line signal to be run through a mic preamp input, and that it's better to use a dedicated line input

I recently bought an old analogue mixing desk, where all the channel and bus insert points are unbalanced, which is quite common, I think. But all my outboard gear has balanced inputs and outputs!

Tracks that I mix in my home studio tend to sound really bad in my car, but when I correct the mixes so they sound good in the car, they sound awful over my monitors — so what's going wrong?

I am looking for a USB audio interface that I can connect all of my instruments to, and I have been considering a Focusrite...

As I use several sound sources at club gigs and festivals, I usually prefer, to sub-mix myself.