SOUND ON SOUND
The single ‘Downtown’ gave Petula Clark a worldwide hit and rejuvenated her career. Presiding over the session was engineer Ray Prickett, who tells us how it happened...
The SOS team head out to singer/songwriter and media composer Olivia Broadfield’s studio, to solve her monitoring issues.
These audio files accompany the How To Build Tracks Around Sampled Tunes feature that featured in SOS December 2011.
Sampling a record may be child’s play, but using such samples effectively in your own compositions requires plenty of skill and finesse.
Reason’s new mixer has useful features you may not have noticed...
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In the first of a two-part series on using impulse responses in Reaper’s ReaVerb, we look at the basics: selecting, loading and editing. • Read Part 1
Pitch-correction plug-ins are the key to the current trend for weird vocal effects. Here’s how to achieve them in Pro Tools.
Keeping your music PC hooked up to the Internet, with security software active, has a surprisingly small impact on performance...
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This month, we figure out how to pack some much-needed punch into an interesting instrumental track.
Ultrabeat isn't just a drum machine: it's great for tempo-synced effects.
Explore some creative uses for Live’s Device Racks.
Fabian Marasciullo’s mixes for the latest Lil Wayne album were so valuable he had to guard them at gunpoint.
Recording and mixing with outboard gear in Cubase 6.
The Buggles' JG Ballard-inspired 'Video Killed The Radio Star' hit the number one spot in no fewer than 16 different countries, and confirmed Trevor Horn in his career as a producer in the process.
Following the death of Steve Jobs, we reflect on the life of one of the most influential technology pioneers of our generation.
This month, we optimise speaker placement, tame some early reflections, and get our hands dirty with a problematic mix.