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Small rooms are always challenging, but there are some fundamental principles that can help you keep problems to a minimum.
Even when you're mixing completely 'in the box', a small analogue mixer can still prove really useful in the home studio, for both recording and monitoring duties...
We take a distance-learning approach this month, to help US reader Jody Whitesides improve the sound of his home studio.
What do you get when you cross a recording musician with a photographer? A nice-looking studio that serves a dual purpose, thats what...
This month we tackle problems that were causing a bass-heavy mix and use coat-hangers to produce better vocal recordings!
In this episode, the SOS crew sort out monitoring problems and offer some practical mastering tips to another reader.
We turn a less-than-ideal square rented room into a workable recording and mixing space.
The SOS team tackle an assortment of problems, from computer error messages to boxy-sounding vocals.
The team take a trip up north to a multi-student household in Leeds, West Yorkshire.
This month, the SOS team visit a student's home studio to help him overcome a few teething troubles with layout and acoustics...
Would you let two strange men drill holes in your house? USA-based SOS reader David Crane took the risk enough to let Paul and Hugh at his walls with a drill to solve his cabling issues...
This month, the SOS team help out with the acoustics at Ultravox and Band Aid star Midge Ure's personal studio.
Sweetening the mixing environment and sorting out the bass end is this month's task — but there's much more to do than adding a bit of rockwool!
Team SOS travel to deepest, darkest Cornwall, where they encounter some troublesome low frequencies and tackle a few common mix quandaries.
The SOS team visit a community youth centre to help them make the most of their new studio setup.
This month, we take on some computer glitching problems and fix up the acoustics in a newly completed loft conversion.
With a non-existent budget and some serious acoustic problems, it took some quick thinking and a generous helping of goodwill to give this revitalised community centre a functioning recording studio.
We visit the home studio of TV composer Kate Ockenden and discover that optimising monitoring needn’t require acres of acoustic foam.
We travel to Kent to identify some problems with a reader’s mixes, improve his electric guitar recordings, and help him create a more trippy vocal sound.
