Mixing / Production

All it took to make a star of Carly Rae Jepsen was one memorable song — and, in Dave Ogilvie, a mix engineer who understood how to make it stand out.

Top producer RedOne has had hits with dozens of artists, but relies on one man to “finish” tracks like Nicki Minaj’s ‘Starships’: engineer Trevor Muzzy.

Our tame mix engineer was asked to inject some dark, moody aggression into this month’s track. Read on to find out how he did it...

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Outdoor live-sound work can be immensely satisfying to do — but it also involves some serious preparation...

I've not used the group editing feature of Cubase 6.5, having only recently come over to this version from Cubase SX3, but...

I've used a 'stereo-izer'/widener on a track, along with two more separately taken tracks panned far left and right,...

The SOS team are tasked with improving speech recordings for an audio newspaper aimed at the partially sighted.

• Sean Kingston 'Party All Night' • Gotye 'Somebody That I Used To Know' • Olly Murs 'Heart Skips A Beat' • Carly Rae Jepsen 'Call Me Maybe'

Legendary sound engineer Keith Grant oversaw a golden age of music recording. Before his death earlier this year, he shared with Sound On Sound his memories of the studio he managed for a quarter of a century.

One of the biggest albums of 2012 was recorded in one of the smallest studios — Andrija Tokic's house in Nashville, Tennessee...

With the tape always running in their Cologne studio, Can built up a huge archive of unreleased material. Much of it was brilliant, but all of it was chaotic...

'Somebody That I Used To Know' is a worldwide hit that breaks every rule in the book. Artist Gotye and mix engineer François Tétaz reveal how they made it.

Technically speaking, working with a single-track recording may not be 'mixing', but a surprising amount of useful mixing‑style finessing can still be performed.

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I have a question about normalising. I mix from Cockos Reaper through an M-Audio ProFire 2626 interface into an Allen...

What are the secrets to a successful soundcheck? We asked some of the biggest names in the live sound industry to share their top tips.

Analogue tape is enduringly popular as an audio recording medium, but do enough people know how to use it properly any more? Bob Clearmountain’s experience suggests otherwise...

Commercial Productions Analysed: Rebecca Ferguson • David Guetta • Professor Green

Benny Blanco has created a string of number one hits without expensive instruments or virtuoso keyboard skills. What exactly is his secret?

Paul Weller's latest album was brimming over with musical creativity. The challenge for mixer Jan Kybert was to forge a coherent album from a mass of ideas.