Industry Talk

To celebrate the magazine’s 30th birthday, the SOS team take a trip back in time, finding out what it was really like to work in a mid-’80s home studio.

As studios have had to adapt to new business models, so have the people who design them.

The food consumed in studios hasn’t always been healthy. Could that be about to change?

In this month's video interview  we meet a living legend of the audio industry, Mr Rupert Neve himself. Over 25 minutes, we talk transformers, software modelling, and get the story of how he created the world's first high-Q equaliser.

A visionary in the field of electronic music, John Chowning invented FM synthesis and set up CCMRA, one of the world’s most influential research centres.

Thanks to new legislation, gainful employment now means just that for academies and students.

Studio tool or collectors’ item: what has become of the large-format mixing console?

The long tradition of ‘testing’ songs out on the public has found an unlikely new home...

What does net neutrality mean for studios?

Plenty of industries use tax incentives to lure customers, but will it work for music production?

Vocal tuning is a process many of us take for granted, but it hasn’t always been so easy.

Each year, at the end of January, the NAMM exhibition in California brings together music equipment and pro-audio manufacturers from all over the world to show off their latest and greatest products.

The question for the music industry is no longer ‘will it survive?’ but ‘what happens next?’

Despite a recent downturn, the video–game industry still has much to offer to audio pros.

Under new leadership, the AES could once again find itself at the vanguard of technology.

The MP3 may not be the perfect medium, but music has survived on far, far worse...

Smartphones and tablets are giving artists new ways to explore multimedia. Does the ‘album app’ have what it takes to rekindle music sales?

Historic studios might hold emotional value for us, but they are, after all, still only buildings.

First mastering went online, now it's becoming automated. Should we be afraid?