
Studio SOS
We help television composer Dave Lowe transform a cavernous-sounding spare bedroom into a usable home studio.
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We help television composer Dave Lowe transform a cavernous-sounding spare bedroom into a usable home studio.
The SOS rescue team set off for Bristol to help out readers Alistair Vickery and Jon Midwinter, who wanted help with their mixes — not only getting the bass sounding right, but also stopping it getting out of the house and annoying the neighbours!
We help SOS reader Ian Anderson achieve his favourite drum sound.
This month, Studio SOS takes on a unique challenge: modifying a motorhome for use as a mobile recording studio!
As well as tackling monitoring issues, this month’s Studio SOS visit sees the team making extensive modifications to a leaky vocal booth.
Down at the bottom of the garden, among the birds and the bees, we went to Alex Hutchings’ studio, to eliminate some unpleasant frequencies.
When misfortune befell one of our contributors, we sent the SOS team to help him get his studio back up and running.
Team SOS travel to deepest, darkest Cornwall, where they encounter some troublesome low frequencies and tackle a few common mix quandaries.
Team SOS travel to Sheffield, to help one man in his quest to realise his lofty studio ambitions.
The SOS team visit a community youth centre to help them make the most of their new studio setup.
This month, we take on some computer glitching problems and fix up the acoustics in a newly completed loft conversion.
We visit a reader's studio in a converted garage to improve the acoustics, and to advise on mic selection and recording techniques for electric and acoustic guitar.
This month, we travel all the way to Amsterdam to help last year's SOS Awards prize winner set up his brand-new, £14,000$20,000 studio!
With a non-existent budget and some serious acoustic problems, it took some quick thinking and a generous helping of goodwill to give this revitalised community centre a functioning recording studio.
We visit the home studio of TV composer Kate Ockenden and discover that optimising monitoring needn’t require acres of acoustic foam.
Like a bird on the wing, we travel over the sea to Skye to help last year’s SOS Awards prize winner set up his brand-new studio!
We travel to Kent to identify some problems with a reader’s mixes, improve his electric guitar recordings, and help him create a more trippy vocal sound.
With a little cunning and resourcefulness, you can improve the sound of nearly any studio — even when it’s on the other side of the world!
In a departure from the usual home-studio make-overs, this month we answer an SOS call from the historic Radio Caroline!
The SOS team visit a London studio in a building directly under a busy road — and with another studio in the room next door!