To showcase the band to promoters and festival bookers, singer‑songwriter Greg McDonald wanted to film an 'as live' main‑stage performance by the full band line‑up...
Chris Watson’s fascination with location sound recording has taken him to some of the most remote places on Earth, where climatic extremes and uncooperative wildlife push his equipment and skills to their limits.
Cypress Hill’s crossover classic launched the group into the mainstream — and without sampling a single horse...
You can do so much more with noise gates and expanders than nix unwanted noise...
Recording an acoustic guitar duo in two separate rooms means great separation, but a lot of work to make the different spaces sound alike!
K‑pop is a truly global music style, and BTS’s successful assault on the US charts was led by a British mix engineer.
When Grammy-winning engineer Vance Powell has to track an entire record in a day, you can rest assured he has some tricks up his sleeve…
Successfully integrating dance and country music on Kylie Minogue’s latest album posed a new challenge to producer, songwriter and mix engineer Sky Adams.
This month’s Studio SOS challenge was to help a college music department get a better recorded drum sound.
Begun as an experiment, ‘Sweet Dreams’ launched Eurythmics to international stardom and is still filling dancefloors to this day.
When you can’t crank up the amp and mic it up, what’s the best way to record electric guitar?
Working with a producer and an ambitious timescale, our engineer planned ahead for the best chances of a good result.
Recording a library of acoustic guitar samples highlighted the importance of repeatability, blind testing, small lasers and double‑sided sticky tape.
It may be famous for its difficult birth, but Loveless was a technical triumph. My Bloody Valentine’s Kevin Shields tells us the story behind their breathtakingly original album.
Performed live and filmed in a single take, Justin Timberlake’s ‘Say Something’ is one of the most ambitious music videos ever made.
Our engineer figures out the best way to capture a dozen songs in a single afternoon.
His quest to capture the spirit of Avebury led former Radiophonic Workshop composer Steve Marshall to develop some unique experimental recording techniques.
Drawing our mini-series to a close, we take you on a detailed tour of the mix and mastering stages of the Damnation’s Hammer album Unseen Planets, Deadly Spheres.
Grammy-winning producer Ian Brennan discusses his approach to working with unique artists in outdoor locations around the world.
