Recording

I notice that in a lot of commercial music the vocal is quite thin, with not a lot of bass to it. When I'm recording, I...

You've got four weeks left until your studio closes. How to make best use of that time? The Walkmen's answer was to recreate their favourite album, note for note, in all its drunken and shambolic glory.

When The Beatles' record company tempted their producer out of retirement for one last project, no-one had any idea how radical the resulting album would be.

'The Eton Rifles' captured both Paul Weller's growing talent as a songwriter and the raw power of his band the Jam, and gave the group their first top 10 hit.

I'm taking the leap into recording drums. I already have a basic drum mic kit, but I want to get some professional mics to...

I want to start playing my drums on a real controller, rather than with my fingers. I've been looking at a few electronic...

More of your recordings scrutinised by the SOS crew...

I am a hypnotherapist, and I'm searching for a tool that will allow me to record sessions with my clients and put them onto CD. I need a recorder which is portable and allows me to record with no hiss and other noises in the background.

Released in 1984, 'People Are People' perfectly combined Depeche Mode's love of pop music and experimentalism, and gave them their first US hit single.

Getting the jitters about your digital clocking? Don't know your AES from your EBU? Then read on.

This month we beef up drums and bass, polish guitars and vocals, and give choruses a lift, as the Belgian band Leaf get the Mix Rescue treatment.

My problem is that I'm recording something of a Keith Moon impersonator. He plays very fast, very busily and very loud,...

Martin Rushent managed the rare double feat of working at the artistic cutting edge and having colossal success — until disaster struck.

This month we beef up drums and bass, polish guitars and vocals, and give choruses a lift, as the Belgian band Leaf get the Mix Rescue treatment.

Les Paul made some of the most innovative records of the 20th Century, but he had to invent multitrack tape recording first...

Some of the best signature sounds have been developed through experimentation with mechanical devices. We offer some inspiration...

I've got lots of kit in my studio — over 30 items of both analogue and digital gear — and I've got a dilemma. I...

The Savants

Medz 4 Life

I've been trying to reconstruct the...

Their combination of Southern soul and hip-hop gave Gnarls Barkley one of the biggest hits of the year, thanks in part to the mixing wizardry of Ben Allen.

Orbital were renowned for their amazing live shows, and the story of 'Chime', the track that launched their career, shows how they brought their 'live' approach to electronic music to the studio and into the charts.

Tired of the same old vocal sound? Time to get creative with your plug-ins, FX pedals and anything else you have!