Latest articles by Andy Price
Infekt: "I start off by thinking how I can make the craziest bass sounds, and build everything else around that"
We sit down with the bass music behemoth to talk studio secrets, AI and why Bitwig is his DAW of choice
What's it really like to record an album at Abbey Road? We spent a day in the studio with The Clockworks and Bernard Butler to find out
RECORDING WEEK 2023: We’ve all dreamt of making a masterpiece at Abbey Road. For this Galway four-piece, the iconic studio became the real-life HQ for the recording of their debut, produced by Bernard Butler
Gregg Kowalsky: "I was feeding all kinds of weird stuff into Ableton's audio-to-MIDI converter. Something just clicked, and I ended up building a whole album around it"
The LA-based multi-instrumentalist and producer embraces the unpredictable chaos of generative MIDI data on new album Eso Es
Audiomovers is helping sound cross borders: "A mastering engineer said to us, 'thank you for single-handedly saving the music industry'"
This Abbey Road-backed company is making audio professionals' lives easier with an ecosystem of innovative software tools
8 of the best immersive audio plugins
RECORDING WEEK 2023: Here are our picks of some of the slickest routes to create and mix in both Sony 360RA and Dolby Atmos
Sound Particles, the maker of the world's first spatial audio synthesizer, on SkyDust 3D: "The future is spatial"
The sky is not the limit for Sound Particles. We catch up with CEO Nuno Fonseca about the company's plans for a spatial future
Digit Music is making music tech more inclusive with its joystick MIDI controller: "It's the power of a keyboard in a device you can play with one finger"
We sat down with Digit Music founders Owain Wilson and Simon Tew to find out more about the Cmpsr controller
Beatie Wolfe: “It’s the imperfections that move us - Leonard Cohen’s weird voice or Nina Simone’s timing. It’s humanity that we respond to, not the perfect sheen”
The visionary multidisciplinary artist and composer on the profound power of music and the 'sonic self-portrait' that is her latest installation, imPRINTING
DAACI is the AI-powered 'meta-composition' software that writes music like a human: "It's interpreting what comes from a composer’s brain, rather than trying to imitate something that’s already been made"
DAACI CEO Rachel Lyske talks us through how this Abbey Road-backed startup is taking "the next step in the evolution of music creation"
5 of the best classic compressor emulations
We round up a selection of the worthiest analogue-modelled recreations of vintage dynamics processors
6 of the best classic EQ emulations
We pick out the finest software recreations of classic and vintage EQs from Neve, Pultec and more
Keir on the power of GarageBand, his 'magic' AKG C414 microphone and writing a song a week for five years
We spoke to the rising singer-songwriter alongside writing partner and producer George Glew to learn about the lengthy process of making his debut album
How to perfect your kick and snare with Arturia's Neve 1073 emulation
Get the sound of the most revered preamp and EQ circuit ever designed with this faithful software emulation
How to use the Pultec 'low-end trick' to improve your bass and kick
This classic trick, recreated with an emulation of the vintage hardware, delivers a tight and characterful low-end
Chris Lake on teaching himself to produce with a laptop and nothing else: "I’ve released music that I’ve only monitored on laptop speakers"
Fresh from the release of the pumping, Aluna-featuring Beggin’, we seized a rare opportunity to sit down with modern house titan Chris Lake
How joan recorded a million-streaming debut album in their bedroom: "Every melody matters. If the melody isn’t undeniably singable, the song isn’t going to stick"
With tens of millions of streams, a blossoming global fanbase and a knack for gleaming pop production, Arkansas duo joan are poised to become a very big deal
Django Django on the dance music-inspired Off Planet: "I started making music in the ’90s with an E-mu sampler, so part of my brain is still stuck there"
Django Django’s retro house-influenced new project is a flurry of hypersonic colours and energy. We spoke to the band’s cofounder David Maclean about the record’s inspirations, tech and evolution
Baby Audio's Caspar Bock on their "evolution" of the cult classic Yamaha CS01: "We wanted to make a synth that sounded as musical, gritty and ‘real’ as the original"
Hot on the heels of the launch of its very first soft synth, we speak to Baby Audio to find out more about why the company has sidestepped into synth-craft with BA-1
Nektar Aruba review
Sprucing up its MIDI drum controller with a raft of new features, Aruba offers a slick new way of performing your software drum instruments
How Cherry Audio recreated the sound of the world's first commercial polysynth in software: “There may be fewer than six working Novachords on the planet”
We caught up with Cherry Audio's CTO Dan Goldstein to find out more about its new plugin emulation of a super-rare proto-synth from 1939
Arrangement 101: How to escape the 4-bar loop and turn ideas into complete tracks
Transforming your sketches into fully-fledged songs can be a tricky process. That’s why it’s important to understand how an effective arrangement takes listeners on a journey…
"Auto-Bounce gives people their life back": Tom Salta's time-saving plugin automates the laborious process of bouncing stems and mixes in Logic
Video game composer Tom Salta got so tired of spending hours bouncing stems in Logic that he designed a plugin to do it for him
Manon Grandjean: "I love being an engineer, but I didn’t really want to be a producer. I'm an introvert - I like to be in my little corner doing things in Pro Tools"
The MPG Award-winning mix engineer talks plugins, studio techniques and working with Stormzy
"Without Pet Sounds, The Beatles wouldn’t have made Sgt Pepper": Giles Martin on mixing The Beach Boys’ masterpiece in Dolby Atmos
Giles Martin's seasoned ears have brought The Beach Boys' hallowed Pet Sounds into the spatial audio realm with astonishing results. We spoke to Giles to learn more…
