
Buying The Equipment You Really Need: Part 3
In the final instalment of this series, Paul White looks at computers, as well as offering some advice on planning a system that allows for future expansion.
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In the final instalment of this series, Paul White looks at computers, as well as offering some advice on planning a system that allows for future expansion.
The perpetrators of recent smash hit 'Da Ya Think I'm Sexy?' might look like a leopardskin-clad disco covers band composed of several people, but in fact they're the pet electronic project of two Mancunians with their heads firmly screwed on an eye to the future of dance music.
It's ever SOS reader's dream to make a record at home and have it go straight into the top five. David Lowe tells Paul White how it's done.
The studio business has seen huge changes in the last 10 years, and the equipment, techniques and fashions that were cutting-edge in the early '90s are often redundant now. Mike Senior meets a producer and engineer who, having made it to the top then decided to take a five-year break and is now back with a vengeance.
In a rare interview, legendary engineer and producer Humberto Gatica explains how he and singer Michael Bublé breathed new life into big-band swing music — with stunning results.
I’m the sound engineer with a group called Flyte, who are heading out on a mini headline tour of 150-500 capacity venues next month. I have the chance to acquire a little digital mixer such as a Behringer X32 rack, but I’m not sure if it would be worthwhile.
I want to connect my synths and drum machine to a computer DAW and actually make a song, but don't yet have the computer...
My home studio is plagued by dust! It seems to get everywhere. Is there a 'right' way to clean this stuff?
Simon Millward completes the construction of a Cubase Mixer Map for Yamaha's popular SY85 synth.
I’m hoping you can help me use my hardware with my computer! I’ve acquired a few instruments (synths, drum...
I'd like to use my monitors with both my audio interface and a CD player, because I want to A/B my recordings against my CD...
I'm putting together a list of equipment for a venue. We already have a PA (the amps are behind the stage), and the mixing...
Working on Trippie Redd’s mixtape A Love Letter To You 5 at Miami’s Criteria Studios gave mixer Koen Heldens the rare chance to mix a rap album to half‑inch tape.
We asked dozens of professional mixers, producers, designers and audio engineers to tell us what Sound On Sound magazine means to them.
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...
Thoughtfully prepared DAW templates can leave you with more time for the creative and musical side of mixing.
Can you help me understand the effects routing on my Roland VS2400CD and how to 'print' an effect to a track?
Q. What recording/mixing tools do you recommend?
I'm taking the leap into recording drums. I already have a basic drum mic kit, but I want to get some professional mics to...
Producers Stock, Aitken and Waterman developed a massively successful formula for making pop records — and the story of Rick Astleys 1987 smash hit, Never Gonna Give You Up, is a perfect guide to the SAW assembly line...