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Bridge the gap between Live’s Session and Arrangement views.
We take a tour of Avid’s surprisingly deep Channel Strip plug‑in.
How often do you need to change the valve in a microphone? How do you know when it needs changing?
I’d like a clearer understanding of what a fully floating balanced output is and how I can take advantage of it....
We don our shiniest Daft Punk helmets and get funky with Studio One’s Vocoder.
Macau‑born Jessica Wong began her production career at Boston’s prestigious Berklee School Of Music before relocating to Atlanta, where she can often be found working in the Madison Records studio in nearby Chamblee, Georgia.
Adding a horn section to your productions can bring everything from mellow melancholy to verve and excitement.
This year’s SOS Awards celebrate the ‘best in class’ products launched or reviewed in the period from September 2021 through to the end of August 2022.
While ambient music can be stereotyped as meditative or calming, it bridges the gaps between noise and silence, helping us find solace.
Based in The Hague, Netherlands, Jan Willem Hagenbeek is best known in the modular world as Ginkosynthese...
Here's how to spice up your drums with Logic’s stock plug‑ins.
These three audio examples illustrate the ideas discussed in February 2023's Cubase workshop.
In this Sound On Sound exclusive feature video, we explore the former Victorian schoolhouse and meet the people who help RAK maintain its reputation as one of the world’s premier recording venues.
To celebrate AKG’s 75th birthday, we’re shining a light on perhaps their most iconic microphone.
The C414 has...
Back in November 2020 Don Lewis discussed his time programming the Yamaha DX7’s factory sounds. In the wake of Don’s passing, we decided to publish this excerpt and put on record his important contribution to this iconic synth.
Best known as the keyboardist and co-vocalist for Brit-Funk legends, Level 42, we caught up with Mike Lindup ahead of his new solo release, Changes 2.
Over time, accurate observations about specific things have a tendency to dissolve into dubious generalisations...
When is a piano not a piano? When it’s been ‘augmented’ by Arturia...
Bastl’s Softpop SP2 reins in the chaos but is still a far from conventional synth.
Cableguys’ box of tricks is a creative processing powerhouse.