Recording

This month we review: Lois, LTS, Three Little Words, The Paul Hegley Band, Sea Stacks and Jabi Shriki

I have a set of Atacama SE1000 speaker stands, but at one metre, they're just a tad too high. I've used Blu-Tack on my current...

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When you’re recording away from the studio and under time constraints, you need to get the big decisions right — and not become bogged down in detail.

Milk-Plus, Animation, The Badje, Caution Horses, Damien Calcagne, Jack Jeffery, Black Storm, Matteo Bosi.

I wonder if you can help me with a relatively minor problem that seems to cause a lot of undue irritation! In my work, I tend...

In this new column, engineers share their experiences of real-world recording sessions, explaining the decisions they made, and what went right and wrong along the way. First up, we record an indie-rock band on location...

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Although the shock value of its lyrics and ensuing censorship earned it notoriety, ‘Closer’ perfectly exemplifies Trent Reznor’s radical use of sampling and singularly focused musical vision.

Imagine mixing the world’s biggest bands in front of an audience of millions — with no soundcheck. It’s all in a day’s work for BBC in-house engineers.

Dave Gerard & The Watchmen, Knive Eight, A Glance Beyond Nature, Seed, Adam Dawson, My Name Is Earl, Dream Baby Dream.

Last month, you gave me some advice on identifying why the vocals on my track weren't audible when I played it in my car [see...

Imagine you've tracked guitar, bass, vocals, and so on, and have multiple takes, all at slightly (or maybe radically)...

I've noticed that a lot of producers still like to record guitar and bass cabinets with microphones, even though there are...

I've noticed a lot of microphones on the market lately that have odd-shaped diaphragms: for example, there's a Pearl model...

The first marathon of the London Olympics took place not on the track, but in the recording studio. Jake Jackson was the man charged with recording 201 national anthems...

The unlikely result of a collaboration between two 4AD bands, the release of ‘Pump Up The Volume’ by MARRS was a great day for house music and copyright lawyers alike.

I want to trial some microphones on a 60-piece school orchestra performance, and I only get one shot at positioning the mics....

I need to digitally encode some old tape cassettes and am wondering what bit depth and sample rate would be optimal. The...

I've seen shipping containers used on building sites for various purposes, and it got me wondering about putting a little...

'Parisienne Walkways' showcased Gary Moore's virtuoso guitar work and quickly became his signature song. Its recording also provided a young engineer at Morgan Studios with his first, unexpected production credit.