SOUND ON SOUND
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.
Navigate busy sessions with ease using Pro Tools’ new Markers system.
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.
Stephen Street has worked with the Smiths, Blur, the Cranberries, the Pretenders, Babyshambles and Kaiser Chiefs, and here he details his favourite sound from Blur's 'Song 2'.
Recorded completely at home, Jyoti Mishra’s irresistibly catchy hit single ‘Your Woman’ inspired a generation of bedroom producers.
DP’s extensive Bounce options make exporting stems a breeze.
The success of Noel Gallagher’s Council Skies owes much to his resident engineer Callum Marinho, who not only tracked but mixed the album.
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!