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With spill between instruments and bleed from backline and monitors, live‑performance recordings present unique mixing...

With a little TLC and the right miking technique, even the most neglected piano can produce great recordings.

These audio examples accompany our Upright Piano miking workshop from SOS December 2019.

These audio examples accompany our Cubase workshop about Distroyer, the new distortion plug-in introduced in Cubase 10.

We dish the dirt on Distroyer, the new distortion plug-in introduced in Cubase 10.

Snapshot automation in Pro Tools Ultimate can be a huge time-saver.

With Reason now available as a plug-in, there's plenty to get to grips with for new and old users alike.

We look at the sweetening tools on offer for mastering in Studio One.

We show you how to get Live playing nicely with Reason 11.

Logic's Modulator MIDI plug-in offers some exciting ways to add movement to your music. Find out how...

Modern rap might be minimalist, but that doesn't mean it's easy to mix — especially when, as on DaBaby's Kirk album, the vocals were tracked in a hotel room.

It might be set in the '20s, but Downton Abbey certainly isn't a silent movie! We talk to the team behind its state-of-the-art sound production.

Our engineer weighs up the benefits and pitfalls of a 'stems-only' approach to mixing and mastering an album for a self-recording band.

Studio One's Project window offers a fully fledged mastering environment.

The SOS team help a reader track down the source of some mysterious hums and buzzes!

We get to grips with Reason's versatile new monosynth.

Check out these audio files which accompany our SOS November 2019 Mix Rescue article about Stem-Mixing-Mastering.

You probably already have one of the best Pro Tools compressors around — but you might not know it!

Joe Colmenero hit the big time with Lil Tecca — and one of the smallest mixes he's ever done!