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As an acoustic musician, I'd like to start learning more about recording and mixing my own material. So far I have no...
The same pitfalls present themselves time and again in project-studio recording. Learn to avoid them and your tracking sessions will be transformed!
We help you to bring your old Reason songs into the Record era.
• Lady Antebellum 'We Owned The Night' • Cher Lloyd 'With Ur Love' • Snow Patrol 'Called Out In The Dark'
We examine the production of some recent hits to help you brush up on your listening skills.
• Alison Krauss & Union Station 'Paper Airplane' • Katy Perry 'Last Friday Night' • Alexandra Stan 'Mr Saxobeat'
Cubase’s send effects aren’t just for reverb and delay!
Make sure your edits go unnoticed with Reaper's audio editing features.
Discover the power of Reaper's EQ plug-in and become an EQ master in the process.
Ah, the 80s... Fluorescent socks, marble-wash jeans, and naff-sounding synth pads! You might not want to resurrect the first two, but subtle use of pads can improve even the most contemporary-sounding mix.
A powerful modulation system means there's more to FXpansion's delay, filter and distortion effects than meets the eye.
Drawing our mini-series to a close, we take you on a detailed tour of the mix and mastering stages of the Damnation’s Hammer album Unseen Planets, Deadly Spheres.
Acoustic guitars are central to many live performances, but making them sound good through a PA isn’t as straightforward as you might imagine.
Having done your best to capture a high-quality recording of your vocals, how best do you go about processing them so they work in your mix?
For maximum loudness with a minimum of fuss, IL's Maximus may be just the ticket — and it does subtlety as well.
These audio files accompany the How To Build Tracks Around Sampled Tunes feature that featured in SOS December 2011.
Softube are out to make DAW mixing more like using a large-format console. Can Console 1 liberate us from mouse and keyboard?
iZotope say that Neutron not only has the processing power to address all sorts of mixing issues, but the intelligence to help you identify them.
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