Recording

Seven top 10 singles isnt bad going for a career, let alone one album, yet thats precisely what Bruce Springsteen achieved with his smash hit 1984 LP, Born In The USA. This is the story of how it was made...

Thanks to years of experimentation with budget equipment, brothers Peter and David Brewis have developed into one of the UK's best and most interesting studio bands, with a sound that is very much their own.

In A Forest Without Trees

Goonies Never Say Die

If the defining characteristics...

In A Forest Without Trees

Goonies Never Say Die

If the defining characteristics of 'post‑...

As an acoustic musician, I'd like to start learning more about recording and mixing my own material. So far I have no...

My studio gear is currently set up inside my garage, and lately it has been freezing cold inside. Though there is no surface...

What differences can you hear when comparing inexpensive and expensive equipment? As I do a lot of vocal recording, I'd like...

Joan Jett's heartfelt reworking of the Arrows I Love Rock & Roll became an international hit in 1982 and turned her career around. Glen Kolotkin tells us how it happened.

Lost In Sound

Atila Neves

Atila Neves has a PhD in particle physics, and would thus seem...

I'm a synth guy getting more and more into recording and mixing my own tunes. One thing that stumps me is the issue of '...

This month, we tame a strange space, record a sitar and dispense a little wisdom on EQ, compression and reverb, as we sort out Dominik Johnsons home studio.

Hank Shocklees 1988 collaboration with Public Enemy brought a new aggression to hip-hop — both sonically and politically...

More of your submitted recordings undergo the SOS 'Juke Box Jury' treatment.

I've carefully wired up my gear using all balanced inputs and outputs, and proper balanced cables, but I'm still getting...

The fact that they achieved little commercial success didnt stop the New York Dolls from making one of the most influential albums in the history of pop music.

The editorial team audition another crop of your submitted tracks. Is yours one of them?

I've been wondering whether sticking a guitar or bass into an effects pedal, preamp or amp modelling pedal to go into a PC...

REMs first single wasnt just an embryonic form of the style and sound that would later make them so successful, it was also a gem of the American new wave. But it took a long time coming...

With a backlog of recorded material to wade through, the intrepid SOS crew brandish their Strictly Come Dancing judges' outfits and proffer their personal verdicts on another bunch of masochistic readers' hard-crafted recordings...

I want to replace the kick drum on our drum kit with a MIDI kick pad, as our kick drum sounds rubbish, and we're now using...

I've just read up about star-quad cable, which has internal cores that cancel each other's interference — like a humbucker?...