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The Sequential Prophet X combines analogue and sample-based synthesis in one enormously ambitious and flexible instrument.
Brush up on your listening skills, as we dissect some hits from a recording and production perspective. This month: The Infamous Stringbusters, Logic, Chris Stapleton, NF, and Whitney Houston.
Private Wilhelm: screaming through cinema’s lazy history of sound effects.
This most hybrid of devices does far more than just put A‑D/D‑A conversion into a 500-series chassis. In fact, it could even make you reconsider how you use your studio...
Don’t have a great-sounding room? Can’t turn your amp up to get the sounds you want? Want to turn down your speaker without sacrificing your tube amp’s tonality? Maybe this changes everything...
Artist and producer Raphael Saadiq has channelled his love of classic soul records to create something convincingly vintage, yet fresh-sounding and alive.
Dave Hill’s uncompromising converter design focuses on making clock jitter as low as possible, with impressive results.
Can’t find what you want in a music library? No problem. Just hire a composer to write it for nothing!
Our engineer records a rock trio while trying also to offer sufficient options to create a drum sample library!
Vocal perfection means timing correction — and Cubase’s AudioWarp gives you the tools you need.
Armed with nothing but an Atari, a pair of S950 samplers and his faithful TB303, Fatboy Slim took the charts of the late 1990s by storm.
Zynaptiq’s unique blend of pitch-shift, delay, reverb and other effects will take you into parallel musical universes!
Greg Wells has worked with everyone who’s anyone in the world of music — but nothing could prepare him for mixing a film soundtrack!
How do you go about translating one of the most iconic studio albums of all time to the stage? We speak to FOH engineer/production manager Clint Boire about the 50th-anniversary tour of the Beach Boys’ Pet Sounds.
Waldorf's new flagship synthesizer is complex, versatile and hugely ambitious.
In techno, the machine rules...
Producer and engineer Rob Kirwan oversaw Hozier’s commercial breakthrough — by concentrating on the least commercial aspects of his music.
The highlight of Queen biopic Bohemian Rhapsody is a meticulous recreation of their most famous live show — using a fresh mix of the original audio recordings.
Keeping up with the Nashville music world means working fast — and few mix engineers work as fast as Billy Decker!