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Working With Orchestrators & Arrangers
Making Arrangements
Just what should you expect when engaging a professional arranger or orchestrator to work on your own production? We find out from some of the best in the business...
Published January 2016
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Classic Tracks: The Undertones: 'Teenage Kicks'
Producer: Davy Shannon • Songwriter: John O'Neill
'Teenage Kicks' was the punk-pop gem that, with a little help from John Peel, kick-started the Undertones' career.
Published April 2011
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Benny Blanco
Songwriter & Producer
Benny Blanco has created a string of number one hits without expensive instruments or virtuoso keyboard skills. What exactly is his secret?
Published June 2012
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Inside Track: Recording Aerosmith
Secrets Of The Mix Engineers: Producer Jack Douglas
Their latest album saw Aerosmith return to their roots, with Jack Douglas in the producer’s chair. But it wasn’t all retro...
Published February 2013
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The Mix Review
Commercial Productions Analysed
This month Mike considers tracks from Rihanna, Marina and the Diamonds, Conor Maynard and Train.
Published January 2013
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Jan 'Stan' Kybert: Producing Paul Weller's Sonik Kicks
Inside Track | Secrets Of The Mix Engineers
Paul Weller's latest album was brimming over with musical creativity. The challenge for mixer Jan Kybert was to forge a coherent album from a mass of ideas.
Published June 2012
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Thermionic Culture Pullet
Mid-range Passive EQ
If you want a high-quality analogue EQ, youll probably own several preamps already — so why pay for unnecessary gain stages? Find out whether you should make an active decision to acquire this passive EQ...
Published May 2010
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Inside Track: Black Sabbath 13
Secrets Of The Mix Engineers: Andrew Scheps
Under the guidance of Rick Rubin, Black Sabbath returned to their roots. Mixed by Andrew Scheps, the resulting album topped charts worldwide.
Published August 2013
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Recreating The ’80s Home Studio Experience
Time Trial
To celebrate the magazine’s 30th birthday, the SOS team take a trip back in time, finding out what it was really like to work in a mid-’80s home studio.
Published November 2015
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Thermionic Culture Solo Vulture
Valve Distortion Processor
When it comes to valve distortion, few want it more than guitarists— and few know more about it than Thermionic Culture...
Published December 2012
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Jacob Golden
Recording Revenge Songs
With no budget to hire a studio, Jacob Golden decided to record his album anywhere and any way he could. The resulting sound is a unique exercise in the use of ambience.
Published September 2008
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Session Notes: The David Ricard Big Band
Tracking A Big Band On A Budget!
Only big studios have the space, skills and equipment to track a full big band, right? Not necessarily...
Published December 2015
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Classic Tracks: John Lennon ‘Whatever Gets You Thru The Night’
Producer: John Lennon • Engineers: Roy Cicala, Shelly Yakus
Engineer Roy Cicala worked on all of John Lennon's albums from Imagine onwards, and in Whatever Gets You Thru The Night, recorded this solo number one hit single.
Published June 2009
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Kush Audio UBK1
Dynamics & Distortion Plug-in For Mac & PC
Does Kush Audio’s expertise in designing analogue equipment translate into the plug-in realm?
Published November 2012
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Classic Tracks: Jerry Lee Lewis 'Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On'
Engineer: Jack Clement
Jerry Lee Lewis’s raucous piano playing is the stuff of rock & roll legend, but his discovery and signing to Sun Records was the result of a series of lucky chances. Engineer Jack Clement tells us the story...
Published June 2011
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LOUIS MEDINA: Roland Product Manuals
Sounding Off
Robert Louis Medina explores the sordid world of naked Dutch flesh — and bemoans the gulf between the quality of Roland products and that of Roland manuals.
Published April 1999
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Mix Rescue: Hetoreyn
Symphonic Synth Epic
A reader's carefully crafted symphonic synth epic gets the SOS mix makeover treatment.
Published November 2013
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Beat Ripping
Cheat Your Way To The Perfect Beat
Learn how to extract the rhythmic elements from your favourite tracks and apply them to your own sounds and compositions.
Published September 2014