Recording

In 1973, a band from Florida and California went to a studio in Georgia to record a song, provoked by a Canadian, about Alabama - and managed to define the sound of Southern rock while they were at it.

Recording a real piano can feel like a lost art, given the number of high-quality sample libraries around these days. For those times when only the real thing will suffice, here's how to do it justice.

Here are links to the audio files from January 2008's PIANO RECORDING article.

I've always had trouble with hi-hat bleed through my snare drum mic. I use a Shure SM57 on the snare, and if I try to boost the...

As far as I am aware, Logic's processing engine, with which it does all of its internal effect calculations and summing, runs at...

The crack team of Paul White and Hugh Robjohns have travelled the world solving readers' problems. Here, they down the Hob Nobs...

I want to mic up my bodhran so that I can record what I am doing in Audacity, then play it back in order to hear where I'm going...

More readers tracks undergo the editorial staff treatment!

Younger Brother brings together two of the Twisted labels biggest names. We visited Simon Posfords studio in a bid to uncover the secrets of psytrance...

Epic in every sense of the word — unning to 21 songs, involving more than 120 musicians and taking almost two years to complete — Stevie Wonder's Songs In The Key Of Life was in many ways the high-point of an already illustrious career. This is the story of how it was created.

With the massive strides software has made in recent years, there are now more ways to record the electric guitar...

This month we review CDs by StrangeA, Ted McLoone, tRUEMAN, Nomadiqa, Simon Scardanelli, Michael Lindner and Column:Inches.

I run an Intel Pentium 4 PC with a Creative SoundBlaster Live soundcard as my default playout device, alongside an M-Audio...

I'm planning to write a piece of music for a sound installation using Logic Pro. There would be 10 tracks, which I'm hoping...

In 1974 Billy Swan walked into Chip Young's Young'un Sound studio and, in two takes, recorded a million-selling single that had taken him 20 minutes to write. This is how it was done...

CD Of The Month: Kekal The Habit Of Fire

The Habit Of Fire is apparently...

I was lucky enough to pick up an old Reslo ribbon mic, like the ones you see in old Cavern Club pictures. I wanted to know...

Sometimes you think your mix sounds great one day, but then you listen to it a few days later and it sounds just awful. And...

The story of how a characteristically chaotic and unorthodox 1978 recording session took Ian Dury & The Blockheads to the top of the UK charts.

More SOS readers offer up their recordings for written assessment (and the occasional bit of punishment)...

I'm wanting to get a recording setup on my PC, but I don't want to spend a great deal of money. Ideally, I'd like a...