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Digital Performer has a great range of features to help you avoid and clean up noise in your recordings.
OneRepublic's route to the top has been tortuous, and their massive hit 'Stop & Stare' was actually recorded more than three years ago. Engineer and mixer Joe Zook recalls the sessions.
Do you find that your MIDI tracks lack the magic of real performances? Simon Millward looks at the inner workings of one of James Brown's most famous songs and shows you how the musicians' techniques can be used to improve the feel of your own sequences.
Simon Millward demonstrates how to use the tools for extracting groove templates from audio recordings within most MIDI + Audio sequencers and offers his tips and techniques for using them to achieve more feel in your tracks.
Cherry Audio have announced the release of Elka-X, a software synthesizer based upon the rare ELKA Synthex instrument
Warm Audio has unveiled the WA-4073 G+, a meticulous recreation of one of the most beloved consoles that changed recording history in the 1980s.
Polaris is a new sound library featuring a modern string orchestra imitating classic synth sounds, from the mind of Grammy-nominated composer, electronic music pioneer & technologist Brian Transeau, aka BT.
This month, the SOS team help The Arcades to rock even harder than before!
IPA 25 is said to deliver the compression character that you’d expect from its inspiration (API’s much-loved 2500), but with some added functions that include selectable circuit topologies, intelligent clipping/limiting, visual side-chain control and a modular signal flow.
Baby Audio’s latest offering combines the best of both analogue and digital instruments, and claims to deliver the hardest-hitting drums that have ever been packed into a plug-in.
Working on Trippie Redd’s mixtape A Love Letter To You 5 at Miami’s Criteria Studios gave mixer Koen Heldens the rare chance to mix a rap album to half‑inch tape.
IK Multimedia give away their superb T-RackS Comprexxor until 20 September.
Timofey Reznikov made a name for himself recreating tracks by famous producers. Now, he mixes their tracks!
Working on tape with the Red Hot Chili Peppers forced Ryan Hewitt to revisit old‑school mixing skills — and find ways to adapt modern techniques to the analogue domain.
The latest arrival to Overloud’s Gem Series plug-in range faithfully recreates not one, but three versions of the iconic dbx 160.
The experimental production behind St Vincent’s album Daddy’s Home made for an unusual and challenging mix.
One of our engineers aims for a big sound from the smallest of acoustic drum kits, as he sets about creating a drum sample library...
Doja Cat's 'Say So' was already a worldwide hit when a new version featuring Nicki Minaj rocketed to the top of the charts. One man mixed them both.
In his quest for authenticity, director Tom Hooper drove his Les Misérables technical crew to completely reinvent film soundtrack recording.
This month we explore a mix in which distortion, reverb and modulation effects provide powerful alternatives to EQ.