SOUND ON SOUND
Working on Trippie Redd’s mixtape A Love Letter To You 5 at Miami’s Criteria Studios gave mixer Koen Heldens the rare chance to mix a rap album to half‑inch tape.
Pro Tools’ metering options can help you stay on top of your levels.
Bend Markers let you manipulate your audio timing with ease.
Logic’s Smart Controls allow you to create hands‑on effects macros.
Any Reaper track can have up to 64 channels, and even in stereo mix projects that opens up a vast world of routing possibilities.
Asked to pick a favourite sound to dissect, American mix master Michael Brauer chooses the vocal sound on Elle King’s ‘Ex’s & Oh’s’.
Reason’s new Objekt synth takes physical modelling in a new direction.
Eddie Bazil dives into some of his favourite plug-ins and delivers a series of examples on how to use these tools creatively.
The technical dimension to vocal production is important, but the human dimension is even more so.
Immersive audio is a powerful way of presenting live music — and it’s becoming more and more accessible to independent artists.
Now that your drums are organised, it’s time to whip them into shape!
Clean up your MIDI with Studio One’s comprehensive quantise options.
Bouncing a mix isn’t the only way to get your audio out of Pro Tools.
When it comes to MIDI editing, Cubase’s MIDI Logical Editor can do magic!
Mixing in software needn’t mean that the results lack character, colour and warmth.
In this fourth and final episode, David Mellor delves into Gain Staging your plug-ins and how to avoid clipping during the mixing and mastering stages.
These audio files accompany the Better MIDI Pianos article in SOS August 2023 edition.
These four audio examples accompany the text in the SOS August 2023 Cubase workshop.