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If you want an education in all things audio, could you ask for a more qualified teacher than Alan Parsons?
When you’re recording a Morrissey album, you need to be ready for anything...
We speak to Disclosure’s tech guru Guy Lawrence about their journey from bedroom production to working with top‑flight stars in some of the biggest studios in the world.
How much preparation is required before a recording session, and when should it all begin? We asked some top producers to share their wisdom.
When Grammy-winning engineer Vance Powell has to track an entire record in a day, you can rest assured he has some tricks up his sleeve…
Does Alan Parsons’ latest book add anything useful to his video tutorial series?
Explore the ups and downs of Phoenix’s transformer-laden tone control...
Performed live and filmed in a single take, Justin Timberlake’s ‘Say Something’ is one of the most ambitious music videos ever made.
A cosy, friendly atmosphere is considered so important at one German studio that it is named House Of Music and Entertainment — or HOME, for short.
Despite the bewildering array of plug-ins now available, mixing still requires you to exercise good judgement with the basics of EQ and compression.
In 1985 John Lydon found himself in a New York studio with producer Bill Laswell and a group of session musicians. The result was to become one of PiL’s most recognisable tracks.
Once an expensive and futuristic dream, the technology for Internet‑based collaboration is now available and affordable — and more practical than you might think.
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Grand Cru was founded as a private studio by Who guitarist Pete Townshend in the late ’70s, and has been in constant operation since then. Recently, it has been made available to the public...
These days, many top studios cater to a major-label clientele, and offer a rather streamlined approach. Happily, there is...
Unfinished business: our engineer reworks a track he produced several years ago, and finds he'd left himself with plenty more to do!
In 2005 the only problem facing Arctic Monkeys was how to capture their frenetic live sound in the studio. Producer Jim Abbiss was ready to accept the challenge...
Apple have launched Logic Studio 9, a major incremental update to their flagship music suite that includes Logic Pro,...
The hottest Broadway show for decades has spawned a smash hit album. But, as engineers Derik Lee and Tim Lathan explain, Hamilton is not your average ‘original cast recording’.