SOUND ON SOUND
Getting tactile with your MIDI controls can breathe new life into stale music.
To celebrate AKG’s 75th birthday, we’re shining a light on perhaps their most iconic microphone.
The C414 has...
These three audio examples illustrate the ideas discussed in February 2023's Cubase workshop.
Here's how to spice up your drums with Logic’s stock plug‑ins.
Bridge the gap between Live’s Session and Arrangement views.
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?
When you’ve learned your craft from Manny Marroquin, you can mix on almost any system — as Jeremie Inhaber proved with Meghan Trainor’s ‘Made You Look’.
We don our shiniest Daft Punk helmets and get funky with Studio One’s Vocoder.
DP’s Articulation Maps can help you get the most out of your sampled instruments.
Cubase’s FX Modulator makes it easy to design ear‑catching riser and drop effects.
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’.
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...
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.
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!