Recording

The editorial team assess another clutch of recordings from more willing masochists.

I have a small home setup based around a Yamaha AW4416 multitracker and a Focusrite Penta compressor. Usually, I just...

I realise that it's almost impossible to name a specific model for the job, but could you tell me what type of microphone I...

1973's 'The Most Beautiful Girl In The World' was one of the defining moments of the Nashville sound, and was the product of a finely-honed studio recording process.

How much treble is too much? As this month's Mix Rescue discovers, it's easy to overdo things at the recording stage, but not quite so easy to correct them at the mix.

These audio files demonstrate some of the mix processing used to create the Wild Hope remix.

Another round-up of your compositions...

I have just started playing mandolin in a live band, and we're currently touring the UK. However, although my mandolin is...

Bass is the linchpin for so much of today's music, anchoring the other sounds and providing a foundation for the mix as a whole. But at the same time, it can seem maddeningly difficult to pin down and control. Help is at hand...

Phil Spector was one of the first producers to realise that a recording studio could be an instrument in itself - and the sound he created over 40 years ago has influenced popular music ever since.

Another group of masochists offer their self-recordings up for scrutiny by the SOS editorial team. Read it and weep?

Why were all the monitors pictured in your Tori Amos article, upside down? Am I missing something?

I notice that in a lot of commercial music the vocal is quite thin, with not a lot of bass to it. When I'm recording, I...

You've got four weeks left until your studio closes. How to make best use of that time? The Walkmen's answer was to recreate their favourite album, note for note, in all its drunken and shambolic glory.

When The Beatles' record company tempted their producer out of retirement for one last project, no-one had any idea how radical the resulting album would be.

'The Eton Rifles' captured both Paul Weller's growing talent as a songwriter and the raw power of his band the Jam, and gave the group their first top 10 hit.

I'm taking the leap into recording drums. I already have a basic drum mic kit, but I want to get some professional mics to...

I want to start playing my drums on a real controller, rather than with my fingers. I've been looking at a few electronic...

More of your recordings scrutinised by the SOS crew...

I am a hypnotherapist, and I'm searching for a tool that will allow me to record sessions with my clients and put them onto CD. I need a recorder which is portable and allows me to record with no hiss and other noises in the background.

Released in 1984, 'People Are People' perfectly combined Depeche Mode's love of pop music and experimentalism, and gave them their first US hit single.