Recording

A Christmas song was an unexpected move from a group like the Pogues, but the story of heartbreak and pain that is 'Fairytale Of New York' eventually became the band's biggest commercial success.

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For mixing Kraftwerk's synthetic beats and simple melodies with New York rap, 'Planet Rock' and producer Arthur Baker can arguably be credited with creating an entirely new genre: hip-hop. This is how it happened...

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Lately I’ve been thinking that it might be handy to get hold of some omni–pattern dynamic mics. I can imagine they’d provide an interesting alternative in roles such as drum overheads, and the lack of proximity effect should make them useful for close–miking. Do you think they could be useful, and what models would you recommend if so?

With modern DAWs, you can breathe life into the masterpieces you recorded long ago on outdated formats. We offer some advice on making the transfer.

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Paul Simon's Graceland album combined a huge mixture of musical styles and was recorded in studios all over the world. The man responsible for putting it all together, both sonically and physically, was Simon's long-time engineer Roy Halee. This is how he did it...

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I'm looking for advice about a software sequencer, mainly to record guitar, electric bass, basic keyboards and banjo,...

I recorded an album on an Akai DPS16 a few years ago and was relatively happy with the results I got. After that, I...

The crack team of Paul White and Hugh Robjohns have travelled the world solving readers' problems. Here they down the Hob...

I am a musician who produces music from a home studio using Logic Studio software. Recently I have had requests from radio...

I record acoustic instruments fairly regularly, and although I can get a reasonable sound with most, recording the banjo is...

I've got a computer with lots of RAM installed and want to run software that lets me play realistic sampled instruments and...

I do a lot of recording and music production with acoustic musicians. If a piece of music has acoustic guitar and vocals,...

I am re-recording vocals for a live album on which the vocals were originally recorded with an SM58. On the multitrack...

Following last month's introduction to reverb, we take you through the tips and tricks of some of the world's best producers, many of whom are thinking about the reverb sound they want long before they get to the mix.

Armed with a subversive view of society and a command of catchy synth-pop, Devo burst into the charts in 1980 with weird classic 'Whip It'. Producer Robert Margouleff talks de-evolution...

TECHNIQUE

Big Sounds From Small Amps

The philosophy that 'bigger is better'...