Studio Stories

This month the team travel to Wales to mix vocals, acoustic guitars, and a troublesome hurdy-gurdy for a studio based in a mobile home!

Flying duvets provide an emergency remedy for control-room acoustics in The Lab's two-storey industrial unit.

Drum recording problems face the Studio SOS team this month, as they sort out two Bristol-based studios at once.

This time, the team convert a small empty room into a professional vocal booth within the space of a single afternoon!

The SOS team get busy at the London studio of a band called South, by transforming the sound of their troublesome monitoring room.

This SOS reader was having trouble with his monitoring, so the SOS team sped over to his home studio in Bristol, England to sort things out.

I'm just about to set up a studio in a room of my house and I was wondering if you have any tips on where to put everything...

In another exciting installment of our studio 'makeover' series, the team rotate Bella Saer's entire setup through 90 degrees in search of a more effective working environment.

The SOS team purge the unwanted buzzes and hums from reader Jim Fish's new studio.

The intrepid SOS crew answer a call for help from a drummer whose studio requires a monitoring and acoustics makeover...

The SOS team return to Cambridge, turning another home studio upside down in search of improved vocal and guitar sounds.

The owner of an unusually bijou studio setup provides the chocolate biscuits this month, as the SOS team get busy helping to improve the performance of his gear and the sound of his recordings.

Acoustic problems and mains hum were making Aniff's studio difficult to use, so the SOS team stepped in to help.

The SOS crew head to the 14th floor of a London tower block to help a pair of readers improve their drum sound.

We help television composer Dave Lowe transform a cavernous-sounding spare bedroom into a usable home studio.

Setting up your studio in a cube-shaped room isn't a very good idea, as Pete Keen and Nick Smith found out to their cost. So the Studio SOS team set off to Kidderminster to help find some solutions to the inevitable acoustic problems.

The SOS team help Peter May to brush up his drum sounds and put more life into his mixes.

During the October 2003 AES Convention in New York, the SOS team managed to make it to Amityville to help reader (and SOS Forum regular) Glenn Bucci with his recorded guitar and bass sounds.

The SOS team visit reader Dave Stevens' home studio to sort out a chesty vocal sound, investigate a mystery digital buzz, and hand out some mastering tips.

Dave Wraight had been having trouble with his mixes, despite twice upgrading his speaker system, so the SOS team set about diagnosing and treating his monitoring problems.

Recording in a converted attic, Tom Fox was having serious problems with his acoustics while recording drums, so the SOS team drove over to Yorkshire to sort things out.