Recording

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.

Can you offer any suggestions for which type of microphone to use to record a ...

The effects of recording to tape seem to be very subtle, with the so-called 'warmth' appearing to be largely due to the soft-saturation characteristics of the tape itself and other non-linear components in the signal chain.

I'm a classically trained pianist who, on occasion, plays keyboard on stage. Though I am told that the latency in a...

I'm trying to get a nice spacious rock drum sound. But while my live room — or 'dining room' as my wife calls it! —...

Why are some DI boxes so damned expensive? Aren't they all just pretty much a transformer in a box? And what if any...

Would impedance balanced and electronic balanced audio provide exactly the same noise reduction as regular symmetrical...

I'm a bit behind on my reading; I just finished Mike Senior's article on recording the band 'Impossible Colours' in the April...

I play acoustic guitar and sing. It's mainly covers that I do, and this has started getting me regular gigs. They're fairly...

I have a question about setting up a channel strip in a home recording environment. I have an SSL XLogic Superanalogue channel...

I recently bought a digital piano. It was mainly to learn piano, but also as a controller to use with Omnisphere. I really did...