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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’.

Eddie Bazil dives into some of his favourite plug-ins and delivers a series of examples on how to use these tools creatively.

Immersive audio is a powerful way of presenting live music — and it’s becoming more and more accessible to independent artists.

The technical dimension to vocal production is important, but the human dimension is even more so.

Mixing in software needn’t mean that the results lack character, colour and warmth.

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.

Most DAWs give you the power to control the volume of recorded audio on a per‑clip level — and with this power comes immense creative potential!

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!

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.

Navigate busy sessions with ease using Pro Tools’ new Markers system.

Drum mics can occupy a lot of channels in your DAW, and they can quickly multiply as you experiment with different processing — so it pays to impose some discipline!

We explore how Studio One’s Snap, Grid and Quantize settings interact.

With Angels & Queens, LA’s Gabriels have produced one of the most adventurous albums of the year.

A few tweaks to your MIDI data can make software piano parts much more realistic — and much easier to mix.

We continue our crash course in editing and mixing drums.

Create drum machine‑style grooves in a flash with Cubase’s Beat Designer.