Studio Stories

It's more than 20 years since the BBC closed their legendary Radiophonic Workshop, but its spirit lives on in the Radiophonic Room at Manchester's Eve Studios.

We go behind the scenes at Real World and meet the team who help make it one of the world’s premier recording facilities. Peter Gabriel’s personal engineer Dickie Chappell also gives us an exclusive sneak peek into Peter’s writing room and recording process.

[VIDEO] If you want a better drum sound, you can change the drummer, or the mics, or the drum kit... but what about the room?

When a studio also has helpful staff, talented engineers and clued-up assistants, the whole experience is a joy.

You are that rarest of things, a musician with money to spend. Should you use that money to pay for studio time? Or invest in your own equipment and record your music at home?

Follow one SOS reader on his quest to transform a box room into a studio worthy of the name!

Meet the crew behind London's Soup Studio

To attract talent from around the world, Johann Scheerer has created an interactive online tour of his world-class Clouds Hill Studios facility in Hamburg. In this month’s SOS video feature, Johann and his team explain how they used virtual reality and immersive audio to bring the studio’s unique ambience to life.

As well as tackling monitoring issues, this month’s Studio SOS visit sees the team making extensive modifications to a leaky vocal booth.

A reader’s home-studio monitoring suffers from a lack of low end and poor stereo imaging. Can the Studio SOS team track down the cause?

Inspired by Norman Petty and Sam Phillips, studio owner Dean Amos has lovingly built a perfect recreation of a 1950s recording environment — right down to the dimensions of the pegboard!

The Studio SOS team put their DIY skills to the test, constructing a new studio desk and optimising a home studio’s acoustics.

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.

A home studio visit sees the SOS team tackle some stubborn synth and DAW gremlins.

The SOS team travel to London’s West End, to optimise a studio that helps homeless people record their music.

We talk guitar recording and more with Grammy-nominated engineer Michael Ilbert, based in Berlin's legendary Hansa Studios.

The SOS team travel to the big smoke to deal with some tricky acoustics in a media composer’s writing studio.

The SOS team travel to a Stourbridge community centre to solve some low-end problems and build some speaker stands.

In this video, mix engineer Cenzo Townshend gives us a tour of his new studio and shows us the techniques behind his mix of ‘Marks To Prove It’.

This month, we optimise speaker placement, tame some early reflections, and get our hands dirty with a problematic mix.