Recording

Joan Jett's heartfelt reworking of the Arrows I Love Rock & Roll became an international hit in 1982 and turned her career around. Glen Kolotkin tells us how it happened.

Lost In Sound

Atila Neves

Atila Neves has a PhD in particle physics, and would thus seem...

I'm a synth guy getting more and more into recording and mixing my own tunes. One thing that stumps me is the issue of '...

This month, we tame a strange space, record a sitar and dispense a little wisdom on EQ, compression and reverb, as we sort out Dominik Johnsons home studio.

Hank Shocklees 1988 collaboration with Public Enemy brought a new aggression to hip-hop — both sonically and politically...

More of your submitted recordings undergo the SOS 'Juke Box Jury' treatment.

I've carefully wired up my gear using all balanced inputs and outputs, and proper balanced cables, but I'm still getting...

The fact that they achieved little commercial success didnt stop the New York Dolls from making one of the most influential albums in the history of pop music.

The editorial team audition another crop of your submitted tracks. Is yours one of them?

I've been wondering whether sticking a guitar or bass into an effects pedal, preamp or amp modelling pedal to go into a PC...

REMs first single wasnt just an embryonic form of the style and sound that would later make them so successful, it was also a gem of the American new wave. But it took a long time coming...

With a backlog of recorded material to wade through, the intrepid SOS crew brandish their Strictly Come Dancing judges' outfits and proffer their personal verdicts on another bunch of masochistic readers' hard-crafted recordings...

I want to replace the kick drum on our drum kit with a MIDI kick pad, as our kick drum sounds rubbish, and we're now using...

I've just read up about star-quad cable, which has internal cores that cancel each other's interference — like a humbucker?...

The pioneering electronica of I Feel Love didnt just revolutionise disco, it changed dance music forever. This is the story of how it was made...

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I have a PC with a Q6600 quad‑core processor running Cubase 4, and despite clicking on the Cubase 'Multi Processing' switch,...

Can you tell me how to set up a compressor for vocals while they're being recorded, and again in the mix?

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I've always stuck keyboards straight into my interface, desk or whatever: plenty of level, minimal noise (if any), and no...

I have been involved with our school fund‑raising events for some years now, starting off by doing sound and lighting....

There are very few records whose influence can be so strongly felt after 45 years as the Kinks You Really Got Me. At the controls was Shel Talmy, who tells us the story of a song that changed pop music.