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Where does the time go? It seems like I just took down the Christmas cards, glanced out of the window five minutes later to see a few green buds on the trees, and now I'm already watching the summer fade away!

Picture this: you're working in an edit suite and the director comes and looks over your shoulder. "Let's try a lens flare”,...

Rycote made waves in the studio world recently with their universal shockmount, which improved on the ageing 'cat's cradle'...

'Education in music technology' is a well‑worn discussion topic in SOS, its forums and beyond. Is it worth having, or not?

Acoustic Toy Museum is one of the more bizarre offerings from Ultimate Sound Bank, and is volume 10 of the UVI Soundcard range.


We've had some goodies from Apple recently, but now it gets serious: the updated Mac Pro is finally here!

Designed as a hand-held live vocal mic, this mic has a cardioid pickup pattern, and seems very robustly engineered.

British 'boutique' outboard manufacturers seem to be rather thin on the ground these days, but if this Pultec clone is anything to go by, newcomers Cartec look set to make a big impression.

Zero‑G's Disco Gold provides over 800 loops presented in a 24‑bit, 44.1kHz stereo format, with some 1.7Gb of sample material in all.

The classic nightmare scenario for anyone involved in setting up microphones, whether for a studio or location recording or...

Hardly a month goes by that a new handheld stereo recorder doesn't turn up at SOS Towers, but the Rekord M has to be the...

Toontrack's EZ Drummer and Superior Dummer have proved hugely popular, in part because of the availability of expansion...

The Faderfox controllers are bijou and boutique, and theres five of them to choose from.

How do you make a piezo-miked acoustic guitar sound like a real miked acoustic? Fishman have improved on their already impressive answer to that question...

Handheld shots can look great, but too much camera shake can give the viewer a headache! We take a look at three budget rigs for keeping shots steady, and find out whether electronic image stabilisation can help.

Traditional acoustic materials from mineral and synthetic sources are subject to environmental concerns and possible health issues. Now there are affordable, green alternatives, but how suitable are they for the home studio?


With so many different bundled and third-party colour correction plug-ins available, do Colorista 2s new features offer anything special?
These audio files accompany the Mix Rescue article that featured in SOS October 2010.