Recording

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.

I have read that the optimum sample rate to record at is 88.2kHz. The reasons include simple integer-ratio sample-rate...

I've been looking at multicores, and wondering how much quality matters. People say that only the best cables should be used,...

I keep reading about the desirable tape effect on a mixdown, and keep hearing people talk about these Studer tape machines. Is...

Many musicians give great live performances when singing and playing guitar at the same time. So why not do it that way in the studio?

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Recording the White Album was a major project by any standards, not least for Ken Scott, who, at the age of just 21, found himself engineering the biggest band in the world...

Fin * Bob McCarroll * Professor Karmadillo

The bass response in my room is quite variable, with some notes appearing boomy and others being quite weak, but the overall...

I use a lot of orchestral parts (EastWest Quantum Leap Symphonic Orchestra) in my contemporary songs, and I was wondering whether I should mix them in precisely the same way as the other tracks in my arrangement?