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It is an unfortunate fact of life that the democratisation of music production, much of which is down to the affordability of...

Credits can be a vital resource to the media composer, but they can also be a ball and chain.

This month brush up on your listening skills with Kiesza, Rita Ora, Duke Dumont, Kaiser Chefs and Mr Probz. Plus our Classic Mix - Santana's Smooth featuring Rob Thomas.

This month we review releases from Dreamlake, Jimmy Brewer and Phillip Sandifer.  

Why music is better now than it ever has been. Alex Marten asks the question.

Just occasionally we receive emails asking what credentials qualify us to dispense wisdom on the methodology of recording or...

We might be used to rapid technological change – but is our audience?

This month we review albums from Stark, Smoking Grace and The Goddamn Wallbangers.

All work and no pay: is working for free always wrong?

We examine the production of some recent hits to help you brush up on your listening skills.

Here at Sound On Sound we always try to help out with readers' queries whenever we can, and if we get enough questions on the...

This month we're listening to Coldplay, Sam Smith, Paolo Nutini and our Classic Mix is Elvis Presley 'Hound Dog' from 1956.

The greatest enemy of original music in TV and film is, well, the original music.

Games music needs to be bolder...

If you're in the habit of reading hi-fi magazines, you may have noticed a number of products based on what one might call '...

This month Pharrell Williams Happy, DJ Snake Turn Down For What, John Legend's All Of Me and the Classic Mix - Dire Straits Money For Nothing.   

Music commissioning has always been squalid. But today's composers get a fairer deal than Mozart ever did.

Zipperfish

Punk By Numbers

No matter how weird, obscure or downright distasteful your...

What keeps us upgrading? Anxiety.

In defence of the iPad.

This month featuring 'Pompeii' by Bastille, 'Let It Go' by Idina Menzel, 'Strong' by London Grammar and the most classic of classic tracks from 1971, Led Zeppelin's 'Stairway To Heaven'.