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Sometimes you need to free yourself from the reign of the click track and headphones...
Live sound has been a fascination of mine ever since I did my first live sound job at a pub in Cambridge back when I was at college and around 18 years old.
The state of flow is a term used in different practices ranging from sports to the creative arts, but what does the state...
When I started my musical career in 1968, playing live was all there was. My first band Uriel lived for the moment when...
Modern, computer‑based music technology has revolutionised home production. For all the positives, though, one downside...
My school attendance was, ahem, erratic to say the least. The only place I felt I was any good at anything was hitting drums...
How a setback forced the writer to question and freshen the way he had been doing things...
Should arranging play a role in music education?
With your laptop to hand, have a go at performing a rough mix on your headphones whilst the sun is shining. You might be surprised how inspiring it can be!
SOS reader Ashley Pomeroy celebrates the creative power of gates.
Isn't 'the future' meant to be all about user convenience?
The lovely thing about electric guitars is that you can tweak them to your own preferences in terms of both how they feel to play and in what features you add to them.
When I was but a wee lad, I loved things that were noisy. But as I got older, I started to appreciate moments of calm...
Good photography, like a good recording, comes from a mix of experience and pragmatism...
With the live music industry on pause, artists have had to find new ways to connect with their fans. Cue Tim’s Twitter Listening Parties...
Great‑sounding gear with big feature sets — what’s not to like? Well, for one, user interfaces that are so obscure you forget how they work the moment you put down the manual...
Sam Inglis’s leader regarding vintage gear got me thinking about similar myths which surround vintage saxophones...
If you care about sound but have previously considered video games a distraction, do yourself a favour: pick a title you like the look of, don your favourite studio headphones, and get immersed.
I’m addicted to YouTube. A couple of weeks ago, its slightly scary algorithms coughed up a video clip from the BBC’s 1980s ‘...
There’s an element of art in the design of passive speakers that’s somehow diluted, lost even, once you put the crossover upstream of multiple power amplifiers...