Mixing / Production

Xylo Aria talks about her personal journey as a music artist and how it gave her the incentive to create Music Production for Women.

Working on Trippie Redd’s mixtape A Love Letter To You 5 at Miami’s Criteria Studios gave mixer Koen Heldens the rare chance to mix a rap album to half‑inch tape.

After rising through the vibrant New York studio scene of the ’90s, Ann Mincieli developed a 25‑year partnership with the biggest R&B star of the 21st Century, and now has her own state‑of‑the‑art Manhattan studio.

It takes talent, attitude and self‑belief to succeed in the music business, and Linda Perry has plenty of all three...

Norwegian artist and producer Live Sollid began her musical journey in the world of jazz, but is now exploring the outer reaches of progressive electronica and experimental pop...

Meet the producers, engineers, songwriters and musicians featured on this month’s Sound On Sound front cover.

Mixing in software needn’t mean that the results lack character, colour and warmth.

Creating an environment where artists can flourish means building trust, understanding people and valuing everyone’s input.

Most DAWs give you the power to control the volume of recorded audio on a per‑clip level — and with this power comes immense creative potential!

The technical dimension to vocal production is important, but the human dimension is even more so.

Eddie Bazil dives into some of his favourite plug-ins and delivers a series of examples on how to use these tools creatively.

Now you can create Atmos mixes using any DAW! But that’s not all this app has to offer...

We visited Alan in his state-of-the-art Dolby Atmos mix room at Hans Zimmer's Remote Control Productions studio complex in Santa Monica, California, to hear his extraordinary life story and find out what's involved in mixing a blockbuster movie score.

Stephen Street has worked with the Smiths, Blur, the Cranberries, the Pretenders, Babyshambles and Kaiser Chiefs, and here he details his favourite sound from Blur's 'Song 2'.

These audio files accompany the Better MIDI Pianos article in SOS August 2023 edition.

A few tweaks to your MIDI data can make software piano parts much more realistic — and much easier to mix.

Drum mics can occupy a lot of channels in your DAW, and they can quickly multiply as you experiment with different processing — so it pays to impose some discipline!

Cristobal Tapia de Veer has become a first‑call Hollywood composer — by ignoring Hollywood’s rules.

With Angels & Queens, LA’s Gabriels have produced one of the most adventurous albums of the year.