SOUND ON SOUND
Even in today’s computer‑based studios, a patchbay can change your life. We help you choose the right one.
Live’s Session view abandons the timeline and allows you to simply trigger individual looping or one‑shot clips of any length.
Darude’s 1999 dance hit has taken on an extensive and often surprising life of its own.
EQ will make or break your master. It's the single most important factor in mastering, once you've decided the loudness...
Canadian producer and educator Mat Gendreau shares his Top 5 Tips on processing reverbs to fit with your song tempo and to avoid overpowering a mix.
How loud is loud enough, and how loud is too loud?
Audio examples to accompany Part 1 of our Cubase: String Theory article.
With the right guidance, iZotope's RX can remove problem sounds that would otherwise ruin a mix.
We look at the history, the theory and the practice of making electronic music without a computer.
The lead single from Pop Smoke’s posthumous debut album was stitched together from two demos in different keys. Mix engineer Jess Jackson turned it into a piece of pop magic.
Cubase can help you write and arrange realistic string parts.
There’s more to great‑sounding reverb than loading and tweaking your favourite plug‑in.
We introduce a little‑known mic configuration that has some unique advantages over more familiar stereo arrays.
We show you how to make a tempo map with Beat Detective.
We delve deep into The Echo, Reason’s versatile delay effect.
We offer guidance on working with MIDI Polyphonic Expression (MPE) in v5 of Studio One.
With the introduction of Logic Pro X 10.5, EXS24 has been ‘replaced’ by a plug‑in instrument called Sampler.
In this episode, Mike Senior demonstrates several ways spill can actually improve the sound of your productions.
Without a firm grasp of these three ‘core concepts’ of mastering, you’ll always struggle to get great results. In Part 2 of his series for SOS, mastering engineer Ian Shepherd describes his “Three Ms of Mastering”, and why he thinks they’re so important.
In this six-part video tutorial series, produced in association with Steinberg, well-known mastering engineer Ian...