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Digital Performer has a great range of features to help you avoid and clean up noise in your recordings.
This month, after a bit of clock-watching, Martin Walker looks at a utility which should keep your PC running for longer; Norton Utilities.
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?
Make sure your edits go unnoticed with Reaper's audio editing features.
Massey's latest plug-in provides an affordable and effective way of beefing up your Pro Tools drum recordings with samples.
These audio files accompany the How To Build Tracks Around Sampled Tunes feature that featured in SOS December 2011.
Signed to Harvest, Janus made one album — and hated the way it sounded. Four decades later, they finally got the chance to mix it properly...
Whether you’re rescuing an over-compressed mix or extracting maximum punch from a drum track, Flux’s innovative multi-band dynamics tool could be just what you need.
Pitch-correction software has lots of uses besides putting vocals in tune! We uncover the creative roles to which today’s pitch processors can be employed.
Is Retro’s recreation of the legendary Gates Sta-Level more than just a reissue?
If you've ever spent hours mixing only to be confronted with a wall of mud, you might need to think harder about how to use reverb and delay in your mixes — and some simple tricks can yield dramatic results.
This recreation of a Bill Putnam classic brings back to life the qualities of a long-gone era — and does so in a truly uncompromising fashion.
This month, we record a jazz big band on location, tracing the project from the planning stages through to delivering edited multitracks to the mix engineer.
• Xponaut Voice Tweaker 4; Waves Maxx Volume • Noveltech Vocal Enhancer
Think your own music is good? Listen to these tracks from SOS readers and see if you agree with the good Doctor's prognosis...
With over 50 Studio SOS visits under our belt, we thought it was time to discuss some of the most common studio problems we've tackled.
The Realiser A8 is claimed to be able to capture the sound of any monitoring environment in the world and perfectly reproduce it through headphones. Could it be time to sell your speakers?
We go old-school in this month's Studio SOS, as we visit a hardware-only studio and help John Cowburn to inject a Motown vibe into his mixes.
We explore some of the advanced parallel compression techniques used by top mix engineer Michael Brauer — and how you can recreate them using Cubase.