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Another batch of lucky SOS readers' demos wait nervously for the Doctor's prognosis. What is the verdict? Listen while you read on...
Teenager Dylan Mills (aka Dizzee Rascal) captured the headlines in 2003 by winning the UK's Mercury Music Prize with one of the most uncompromising albums of recent times. Dizzee and engineer/manager Cage describe how they made Boy In Da Corner.
The budget MIDI controller market is pretty crowded these days, but Evolution are giving you the most for your money with the UC33, eschewing expensive rotary encoders and large displays for affordable non-moving faders and wipe-clean overlays.
Focusrite update their successful high-end Producer Pack to keep it ahead of the game.
Music technology has opened up all sorts of exciting possibilities for mixing loops with live instruments on stage, if you know how to hook everything up.
Sound Toys claim that their new plug-in captures the sound of an analogue filter in digital form. We put it to the test...
We show how to create step-sequencer effects within Logic's MIDI editing windows. Plus practical tips to make your sessions more productive.
This surprisingly compact large-diaphragm condenser mic shakes up the established competition.
These two affordable problem-solvers facilitate digital interfacing and mixing in the home/project studio.
Version 2 of Celemony's revolutionary pitch- and tempo-shifting software includes new features, better sequencer integration and an improved interface.
Ever accidentally thrown away computer data that you should have kept? This month we have the technology, and we can rebuild it.
Last year's Love & Life album saw R&B superstar Mary J Blige reunited with Sean Combs (aka Puff Daddy, aka P Diddy) and his Bad Boy production stable. Mix specialist Tony Maserati spent two months at Miami's Circle House Studios working on the project, and recorded his experiences in this unique diary.
As Mac OS X's Panther incarnation brings some slinky new working methods to Digital Performer, we pass on some advanced ways of pasting data, as well as rounding up the usual tips and news for DP users.
We check out two more useful plug-ins, one for Powercore and one for PC VST/Direct X.
Do you have elderly Windows or MS-DOS software that refuses to run under Windows XP? If so, there may still be a way to get it working. Find out how...
A range of affordable third-rack units designed to cover a variety of studio tasks without compromising on quality.
We've rounded up some free effects and other goodies. On the news front, there's word of a VST-to-RTAS plug-in converter from FXpansion.
I did a recording session recently using a mixture of dynamic and condenser mics, and realised my desk does not have switchable phantom power for each channel — they're either all on or all off. Luckily, I had some external channel strips which I ran the condensers through, but is it safe to apply phantom power to dynamic mics?
The excellent sound quality and rugged build of these drum mics belies their highly affordable price tag.
We visit two readers who have set up a studio in a small corner of a small room in the West Midlands...