Recording

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Zwiepack: Our engineer captured one jazz session using two completely different recording techniques. Which one won the day?

Recording the centrepiece of Spiritualized’s celebrated space rock masterpiece took engineer Darren Allison on a trip into the unexpected.

How do you extract a complete album from a dysfunctional band with no finished songs? Drag them to a remote residential studio — in winter...

I’ve got to the point at mixdown where I’d usually be thinking about sending everything through a couple of global reverbs/delays with a view to simulating a soundstage. Would this have actually been possible for a mix engineer in that decade?

Bearing in mind my room is untreated and I do the bulk of my mixing on headphones.

What’s the ‘secret’? Shall I not bother with gating them.

Hannes Keseberg: our engineer helps an artist fake a big-ensemble sound by layering recordings of a string quintet.

Hannes Keseberg: our engineer helps an artist fake a big-ensemble sound by layering recordings of a string quintet.

The humble speaker stand or desktop speaker platform can make a huge difference to the sound in your room.

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.

These files accompany the Mike Skeet obituary in the March 2016 issue of SOS.

Through his work as an engineer and author, Mike Skeet inspired enthusiasts to build their own equipment and make better recordings.

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...

Musician Chris Thile is quoted as saying he'd decided never to record wearing headphones again. I don’t get this. What’s wrong with headphones?

Our engineer explains how to go about getting decent results from a live-band tracking session when pressed for time.

The same pitfalls present themselves time and again in project-studio recording. Learn to avoid them and your tracking sessions will be transformed!

Now considered one of the classic tracks of the 1960s, the Zombies’ ‘Time Of The Season’ almost disappeared without trace...

When cult funk band Cymande returned to the studio, they insisted on hiring the same production team — 41 years after their previous album...

Classic rock: even well-recorded drums can require plenty of work to make them fit the track.