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Spitfire travel through time to uncover the secrets of the BBC’s mysterious ‘special sounds’ department.
Get the most out of your multi‑output instruments in Studio One.
Bethia Beadman has toured with Courtney Love and recorded Radiohead, Depeche Mode and the Stooges for Nigel Godrich’s 'In The Basement' sessions. She's also a formidable artist in her own right, with the excellent Tchad Blake‑mixed track ‘Kitten Feel’ just released as we go to press.
When opting for a more minimal approach to drum miking, a compressed omni mic beneath the snare can pay dividends...
UDO’s ribbon controller puts Super Gemini‑style expression at your fingertips.
With personalised spectral target curves, static and dynamic options, and a handy side‑chain function, Curves AQ’s tonal shaping tools are intended for engineers of all skill levels.
My early introductions to electric guitar came via the big‑box VHS cassettes we rented from the video store for our family movie nights.
This third article of our stereo mini‑series explores how to manipulate the perspective obtained from coincident mic pairs.
MPE has made electronic instruments more expressive than ever, and there are options out there to suit almost everyone.
These audio files accompany my article titled The Drum Squash Mic Trick, published in SOS September 2025, and demonstrate the potential benefits of adding a fifth ‘squash’ mic to a basic four-mic setup on acoustic drum kits.
Audio Examples to accompany the Cubase bass workshop in SOS September 2025.
AIAIAI’s latest wireless cans make cable‑free headphone monitoring a reality.
GS Music have packed seven voices of analogue polyphony into a box that’s as well made as it is small and blue.
The third wave of the 3rd Wave reduces both size and price, but retains the sound that made us love it in the first place.
Mastering is not an extension of mixing. It requires its own skill set — and, above all, a philosophy of “first do no harm”.
Solid State Logic dust off the blueprints of their E-series console to create a classy channel strip.
As well as giving you access to a vast range of loops and one‑shot samples, SOS For Artists offers some cool tools for finding, auditioning and manipulating them.
The result of almost a year of development, Daybreak Audio's first plug-in uses “aggressive multiband compression to sculpt uniquely harsh and distorted tones, perfect for rage, electronic and industrial music”.
Editors Keys have recently expanded their line-up of application-specific keyboards with new models designed for Steinberg’s Cubase 14 and Reason Studios’ Reason 13.
Arturia have announced the launch of a new expansion pack that includes a total of 450 presets for their Pigments and Analog Lab software instruments.