SOUND ON SOUND
VCA faders offer a powerful way to control your levels in Studio One.
We check out what’s new in Live 12.1.
Grammy‑nominated producer and musician Hunter Lea currently produces and engineers out of Uptone Recorders in Tacoma, whose vintage equipment was used to produce his nominated favourite sound: the swelling oceanic tones on the 2024 track ‘Real Shoring’.
Cubase’s new Modulator has many superpowers — it can even ride your vocal levels for you!
Having proved his worth on Tate McRae’s second album, producer and songwriter Grant Boutin played a pivotal role in the third.
There can be advantages in permanently installing the pickup for your Roland/Boss guitar synth or modeller. Usually, it’s a job for a luthier, but with some basic woodworking skills you can go the DIY route...
Find your way around large mixing sessions with these power‑user tips.
David Mellor continues his exploration of microphone polar patterns by discussing techniques for capturing stereo recordings.
Multiband Splitter opens up a whole new world of processing options.
Sound On Sound May 2025
Cubase Workshop: Audio Examples
John Walden
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Subtle issues with the frequency balance can stop mixes from translating well to different listening systems. We offer a couple of suggestions that can help.
Speed up your S1 session navigation with these pro‑user tips.
Led by vocalist, guitarist and keyboardist Jürgen Engler, Die Krupps’ blending of electronica with heavy guitars went on to influence numerous other bands, including Depeche Mode and Rammstein.
Need a better arpeggiator? Cubase’s Pattern Editor can deliver the goods!
Metalcore presents unique production challenges — and few are better placed to meet them than genre veteran Jordan Fish.
The fearless sonic experimentation of composers Evgueni and Sacha Galperine is proving equally at home in mainstream and arthouse cinema — not to mention last year’s surprise hit TV series Baby Reindeer.
We explore some creative delay treatments using only Logic’s bundled plug‑ins.
David Mellor discusses how to create custom effects in a DAW without relying on expensive plug-ins.
Join us for an exclusive behind-the-scenes look at the Dune: Part Two soundtrack with legendary mixing engineer Alan Meyerson.
These three audio files demonstrate various elements of the Modulator-based synth pad sound-design process that I describe in the main SOS April 2025 Cubase workshop article.