SOUND ON SOUND
What better place to start building your mix than the kick-drum and bass parts? Get them to work well together and you’re on your way to a good mix...
Adele’s second album, 21, has broken sales records all around the globe. Mixer Tom Elmhirst and producer Paul Epworth explain how they created its multi‑platinum lead single, ‘Rolling In The Deep’.
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But for the timely intervention of Mick Ronson, John Cougar’s celebrated portrait of small-town American life might never have existed at all, let alone topped the Billboard Hot 100.
Does Apple’s controversial product strategy for the new Final Cut Pro X give any hints as to their plans for the next major Logic version?
We work around the missing DAW features in Reason and Record.
The iLok dongle is more important to Pro Tools users than ever. So should existing users make the move to the new version, and how do new users get started?
The Studio SOS team sort out some acoustic problems, streamline a studio setup and brush up their drum & bass production skills!
In our second look at Studio One’s Browser, we’ll be creating Sound Sets and dipping our toes in the Pool.
Multi-band processing in Sonar needn’t stop at compression: using the same approach on distortion is easy and effective.
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The Snapshots feature in the donationware SWS Extensions adds simple and very useful mix functionality to Reaper.
Your PC may be powerful enough to achieve very low‑latency performance, but is your audio interface letting the side down?
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Modern production techniques can have a place in traditional acoustic music genres: we even sneaked a triggered synth part into this Morris‑dance tune...
The automation features in modern DAWs go much further than simply recalling your fader moves. Learn how to use them to full effect and they open up new mixing possibilities.
If Logic’s built-in pitch-correction doesn’t cut it for you, try this trick...
There’s more to Live’s Resonators effect than you might think...
Feeling that something was missing from their latest album, the Beastie Boys decided it needed remixing — by a “crazy Frenchman”...
