Studio Stories

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

It's not a bad gig being chief engineer to the world's hottest production duo, Pharrell Williams and Chad Hugo. But it takes a lot of hard work to keep up with The Neptunes...

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.

The SOS team are back in London this month to help some high-profile remixers sort out the monitoring problems in their new studio.

The SOS crew travel to an attic in Birmingham (UK) to help a drummer improve 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.

A dodgy snare recording was just one of the problems facing Rob O'Neil at the mixdown stage, so the SOS dynamic duo (Paul and Hugh) visited his home studio to help him sort things out.

Buying a house is a big investment, so it's important to pick the right property, and if you are a recording musician you will probably want it to include a suitable space for a studio. We weigh up the pros and cons of different studio locations within a typical small home, and also look at the kind of work that each space might require to make it usable.

Tony Global's background is in the dance music/DJ scene. The SOS team help him to polish his vocal sounds and improve his mixes.

The SOS team ride to the rescue of a budding media composer who is having trouble with his mixes.

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.

Shaun Hayward & Joe Kenny of Chunc Productions reveal their gear setup and musical motivations.

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

This month, the SOS team help The Arcades to rock even harder than before!

The SOS team apply themselves to the task of mixing Chinese traditional instruments with mainstream Western sounds at reader Jiang Li's home studio.

Chris Brockis had been having trouble mixing in his attic home studio, so he enlisted the help of the trusty SOS team.

The intrepid SOS team travel to Nigel Helm-Nurney's London studio to help his band Pombokiwi do battle with unwanted spill, uninspiring guitar sounds, and masses of egg boxes!

David Ashman felt that his mixes lacked energy and were sounding 'too digital', so the SOS team set off to his home in Bristol to sort out his monitoring system and mix processing.