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Sound On Sound's monthly feature that asks our authors and people in the industry to describe an aspect of music technology that they love and give the reasons why.
When Catherine Marks asked me to be a part of this special issue of SOS, I was honoured to be included among this awesome community of women.
I believe SOS still stands out. If you look at its coverage of events like Superbooth, I think you can see that difference.
As an immature, financially irresponsible man‑child with lingering delusions of rockstardom, I have a modest collection of guitars...
Not all hardware loopers are created equal. This is quickly discovered when you dive deeper into creating sonic architectures...
While ambient music can be stereotyped as meditative or calming, it bridges the gaps between noise and silence, helping us find solace.
I bought my first CD player in 1984. I had been lusting for one since I first saw/heard the new format three years earlier,...
Our ears are so used to hearing music made in recording studios that it can sound quite different to hear something that was recorded with an ambience...
The Nagra VI is a visually stunning, operationally simple, and a technologically versatile 8‑track digital audio recorder, derived from a long genealogy of superb‑sounding and beautifully engineered machines...
One of my favourite musical sounds ever is the unscripted, unplanned, impossible‑to‑replicate sound of an orchestra setting up for a session.
There’s a running gag in modular circles about how someone has just completed their system. But in a few days, maybe a week, other modules will start popping up out of drawers and things will change.
Multitrack recording at home, a decade before the Portastudio...
If you were to ask me which electric guitar I most pick up when I play for pleasure, not work, I do have an answer, absolutely and definitively.
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.
Mexican‑Canadian songwriter and producer Andrea Rocha was classically trained and has worked with some of pop’s brightest stars, including Ellie Goulding, Gabrielle Aplin and Becky Hill.
Ricky Damian is that rarest of things: a young engineer trained in all‑analogue recording. His experience stood him in good stead with Jorja Smith.
Music production has changed a good deal since Harrison’s most famous in‑line console enjoyed its heyday — so they decided to bring it up to date.
If you’re a fan of Ted Fletcher’s classic optical compressor designs, this one should not disappoint.
Cherry Audio delve into the distant past to bring us two new virtual instruments.
From co‑founding cult band Jellyfish to writing with Brian Wilson and touring with Beck, Roger Manning has enjoyed an extraordinary career — and a remarkable collection of vintage instruments.