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John Walden considers the leap from 32 to 64.

A song named for Christmas-cancelling regicide Oliver Cromwell may seem like an unlikely hit, but the infectious ebullience of 'Oliver's Army' provided Elvis Costello with his biggest-selling single...

Has the recent update to GarageBand narrowed the gap between the bundled music software and its professional sibling, Logic?

With over 50 Studio SOS visits under our belt, we thought it was time to discuss some of the most common studio problems we've tackled.

In the first of this two-part series, we look at the best ways to manage your day-to-day backups in Sonar.Read Part 2.

Make light work of song arranging with Reason's new Blocks feature.

Discover the power of Reaper's EQ plug-in and become an EQ master in the process.

Pro Tools' rulers not only show the passage of time, they allow you to control it!

If your laptop's giving you ground-loop problems, maybe it's time to go back to battery power... Martin Walker discusses this, and rounds up the latest PC news.

These audio files accompany the Mix Rescue article that featured in SOS December 2010.

Apple's iMovie may be designed for making slideshows of snapshots and holiday videos, but what's to stop you thinking outside the box?

We spend a lot of time rescuing sub-standard recordings and arrangements in Mix Rescue, but this month it really was all about mixing and mastering.

Whether you're an experienced or a novice Logic user, going back to the beginning might show you a thing or two.

We show you the most modest of feats: a wonderful way of repeating your beats.

Thirty years after Led Zeppelin ended, Robert Plant has reached a second career high. His latest hit album was tracked and mixed by Mike Poole, using a mouth-watering selection of vintage equipment.

DP's latest version brings the ability to change the look and feel of the program. We find out how, and explore other additions in DP 7.2.

Exporting a project from one DAW to another can be frustrating — but there are ways and means...

Even a handful of knobs and sliders on a MIDI master keyboard are enough to give you hands-on control of your Cubase mix.

Protests against Catholicism have taken many forms, Martin Luther nailing his objections to the cathedral door, but the Pet Shop Boys chose to make theirs in disco...• Producer: Julian Mendelsohn • Engineers: Julian Mendelsohn, Stephen Hague

Don't panic if your iDevice has recently gone to a watery grave; your music may still be salvageable.