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Navigate busy sessions with ease using Pro Tools’ new Markers system.
Recorded completely at home, Jyoti Mishra’s irresistibly catchy hit single ‘Your Woman’ inspired a generation of bedroom producers.
Create drum machine‑style grooves in a flash with Cubase’s Beat Designer.
DP’s extensive Bounce options make exporting stems a breeze.
Stephen Street has worked with the Smiths, Blur, the Cranberries, the Pretenders, Babyshambles and Kaiser Chiefs, and here he details his favourite sound from Blur's 'Song 2'.
The success of Noel Gallagher’s Council Skies owes much to his resident engineer Callum Marinho, who not only tracked but mixed the album.
We continue our crash course in editing and mixing drums.
We explore how Studio One’s Snap, Grid and Quantize settings interact.
These four audio examples accompany the text in the SOS August 2023 Cubase workshop.
These audio files accompany the Better MIDI Pianos article in SOS August 2023 edition.
In this third episode David continues looking at preamps, outlines the use of VU meters, and explains the benefits of balancing a track prior to mixing.
In this fourth and final episode, David Mellor delves into Gain Staging your plug-ins and how to avoid clipping during the mixing and mastering stages.
Canadian mixer and recording engineer George Seara chooses the vocal on ‘Treat You Better’, by Shawn Mendes, as a favourite sound from his catalogue.
Today’s TikTok‑driven music market demands authenticity, as Atlanta mixer Jacob Morris found when he mixed David Kushner’s ‘Daylight’.
We look at the processes that can add harmonic content to a sound, for subtle warmth or radical transformation.
We explain how to create MIDI string arrangements that don’t sound like MIDI string arrangements!
In Studio One, Multi Instruments are your fast track to powerful synth layers and splits.
These audio files accompany the Faking A String Section In Your DAW workshop in SOS July 2023 issue.
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