SOUND ON SOUND
Adding a horn section to your productions can bring everything from mellow melancholy to verve and excitement.
American record producer, engineer and mixer Bob Clearmountain unpacks Neil Finn’s vocal from the Crowded House track ‘I Feel Possessed’.
We take a tour of Avid’s surprisingly deep Channel Strip plug‑in.
The buzz around immersive visual media is creating plenty of new opportunities for those who record spoken word for a living. But how do these new jobs differ from traditional ones?
These three audio examples accompany the Cubase Sampler Track technique workshop in SOS January 2023.
Cubase 12...
Your Studio One productions can now have integrated lyrics.
Going DAWless presents many challenges — not least keeping all your gear in sync...
With hit albums for Dave, Wizkid and now Stormzy, Brazilian‑American mixer Leandro Hidalgo is at the top of his game.
With a bit of fine‑tuning, Reaper can help you edit long podcasts at pace!
Cubase’s Sampler Track is capable of making surprisingly playable backing vocals.
We explore a few ways to share your Logic Pro projects with collaborators.
Join us as we delve into the hidden mysteries of the Kong drum machine.
Producer and mix engineer John Feldman details how he got his favourite vocal sound on the Used’s 2002 debut single.
Pro Tools offers some powerful features for quantising both MIDI and audio.
Mark Mynett, sound engineer and senior lecturer at Huddersfield University, gives us an in-depth look at how to process and mix the various elements of a song recorded using live instruments.
Sound On Sound December 2022
Cubase Workshop: Stranger Things Synths With Retrologue 2
Audio Examples...
The ultimate one‑man band, Brazilian artist Ricardo Bacelar uses layers of drums, percussion, guitars and keyboards to build up dense immersive mixes.
London‑based record producer, programmer and session musician Andy Wright chooses the drum sound from ‘Dirty Mind’, on Jeff Beck’s 2000 album You Had It Coming.
Create retro sci‑fi soundtracks with Cubase’s Retrologue 2.
Want a hit that transcends genres? Hire a mix engineer who does the same — as Steve Lacy did with Neal Pogue.