SOUND ON SOUND
Greg Price has spent nearly 20 years at front of house for some of the biggest names in rock, and now his company believe they’ve perfected the art of live recordings.
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The SOS team travel to the big smoke to deal with some tricky acoustics in a media composer’s writing studio.
Cut the cord and make music with just your laptop and Reason.
We make a rare visit to a world-class recording studio, as one of The Church’s engineers takes us through a recent session.
Tidy away unused instruments and effects and put your favourites within easy reach with Logic’s Plug-in Manager.
Get to grips with Sonar’s latest MIDI editing tools.
Live rooms and headphones can kill the mood for some vocalists — so why not ditch the cans and record in front of your monitors?
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Pro Tools 12 makes radical improvements to the way inputs and outputs are handled, which benefit all users.
Studio One 3’s new Channel Editor opens up a host of possibilities, including creative M-S processing.
Working on Muse’s hit album Drones gave Tommaso Colliva and Rich Costey unique insight into the extraordinary methods of hitmaking producer ‘Mutt’ Lange.
Does today’s sample-based drum software mean we don’t need real drummers any more? We find out what a human session drummer offers that a virtual drummer can’t.
Whether archiving projects, creating stems or saving CPU resources, Cubase 8’s Render In Place feature has you covered.
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In 1987, swimming against the tide of MIDI–powered pop records, Cowboy Junkies went into a church to record an album into a single microphone in a single day.
Memory Locations in Pro Tools don’t have to be tied to the timeline — they can also store and recall a host of session parameters.
Brass on location: Our engineer tracks a trombone ensemble and solo trumpet for use in a contemporary rock mix.