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Learning to capture Indian music in all its rich variety has been a life’s work for Sai Shravanam.
Choose a mic with the optimum polar pattern for the job, and you’re halfway to capturing a great recording.
Two‑way or three‑way? Ported or sealed? Analogue or DSP‑assisted? We help you navigate the monitor maze and choose the best speakers for your studio.
Influencers turn themselves into brands. Production duo LYRE can turn them into pop stars too.
The TC4 aims to make it easy to use mastering hardware with your DAW.
Newfangled Audio’s Generate soft synth embraces chaos...
Erica’s Black Sequencer combines ambitious functionality with some of the best knobs money can buy.
Affordable, reliable and unexpectedly small, Beyer’s ribbon mics have been studio staples since the mid‑’60s.
The Cobalt 8 is a beautifully judged virtual analogue synth.
Logic’s drum instruments offer powerful ways of laying down percussion and more...
Why let guitarists have all the fun? Stompboxes can be inspirational mixing tools.
Fancy winning this fabulous StudioLive 32SC Series III mixing console from PreSonus, worth £1789? Your chances are way better than the Lottery!
Listing of all SOS May 2019 issue's articles which feature accompanying media files.
We check out a modern take on Manley’s classic valve compressor.
ZoneMatrix transforms a single instance of Kontakt into a multi‑instrument performance environment.
Bassynth is all about big and meaty bass sounds. Its 11GB sample library comprises over 800 multi-samples of 'real' instruments such as brass, winds and bass guitar, plus synthetic sounds.
With patch‑morphing and a built‑in step sequencer, the NightSky is no ordinary reverb unit.
Mission Engineering's VM-Pro buffered volume pedal, widely considered one of the best available, just got better!
With a record three Album of the Year nominations at this year’s Grammy Awards, mastering engineer Emily Lazar is at the forefront of her profession.