Recording

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?

I've always liked Logic's track-icon facility, as having a graphical representation of what sound or instrument is on any...

I often read in your gear reviews that you don't like 'wall-warts' and that good power supplies should feature a toroidal...

My Mackie VLZ mixer's got a bad socket: when the mixer is switched on, the socket goes on and off intermittently. If it's just...

'I Wanna Dance With Somebody' was a huge global hit, but it also represented a tour de force in coaxing the perfect vocal from a singer, as explained by producer Narada Michael Walden.

Krojc * Toy Tin Soldier * Mike Henderson * Annie Dressner * Marvin B Naylor * Crazee Baldhead * Big Chief

I read your feature about 'Digital Problems, Practical Solutions' (/sos/feb08/...

I've offered to have a go at recording a couple of friends of mine who play as a duo. For some of the songs, one of them will...

Soft Cell's cover of 'Tainted Love' not only catapulted the duo to stardom in the UK, but also went on to spend a record-breaking 43 weeks on the American Billboard Hot 100 chart.

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The Hillmen * Little Black Holes * Primary Slave * Mine * Charlie Birnie * The Tempus * Pearl Handled Revolver

When recording a drum part, do I have to EQ it, or should it be left untreated?

Samuel Am, via email

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I'm trying to hook a Behringer Denoiser and an SPL Vitalizer MK1 into an older-model Alesis Multimix 16USB mixing console,...

The story of Don McLean's 'American Pie' goes from cryptic beginnings to massive chart success, and an eventual position as a perennial US radio favourite.

Breton * Ove Engen * RJ Thompson * Burning Wire