Studio Stories

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.

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.

Production pioneers Massive Attack are going through exciting times — they've built an awesome recording studio, moved into surround soundtrack work, and they have a new album on the way. We take a spin around their new workspace.

SOS visits reader Andrea Terrano, who has turned the empty shell of a South London industrial unit into an impressive studio complex.

Steve Albini has become a legend in the world of alternative music by championing traditional engineering skills, respecting the opinions of the artists he records, and doing business ethically.

We've seen some curious studios in SOS over the years, but not many have included a warehouse full of vintage hardware, Pro Tools HD rigs, and thermostatic ovens. But it's all part of the daily routine at FX Copyroom...

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