Studio Stories

This month we play the role of studio design consultants... and leave the heavy work to the studio owners!

In this episode, the SOS crew sort out monitoring problems and offer some practical mastering tips to another reader.

This month we journey to the Outer Hebrides, where a college teaching Gaelic music has more than a few wires crossed...

The SOS crew go hob-nobbing at a stately home this month, and get to grips with the acoustics of a large and lively room.

The SOS crew visit reader Chris Walker's home studio and help solve amplification problems for his tea-chest bass.

The team take a trip up north to a multi-student household in Leeds, West Yorkshire.

This month, the SOS team visit a student's home studio to help him overcome a few teething troubles with layout and acoustics...

The SOS crew help drummer Darren Williams sort out a better space in which to record drums and operate as a remote session drummer.

Would you let two strange men drill holes in your house? USA-based SOS reader David Crane took the risk enough to let Paul and Hugh at his walls with a drill to solve his cabling issues...

Over the last decade, some extraordinary music has emerged from Tori Amos's Martian Engineering studio. A new box set collects together the highlights, while the studio itself is soon to open to paying customers.

Sorting digital gremlins and rogue reflections is all in a day's work for the Studio SOS team...

Sweetening the mixing environment and sorting out the bass end is this month's task — but there's much more to do than adding a bit of rockwool!

This month, the SOS team help out with the acoustics at Ultravox and Band Aid star Midge Ure's personal studio.

Recording drums and guitars is the task in this month's studio troubleshooting visit.

This month's task for the SOS crew involves stripping down Simon McEvoy's entire studio to improve the acoustics and ergonomics.

The team create portable acoustic treatment for a TV/film music composer who has plans to move house.

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.