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Latest recording news
17 tips for recording guitar at home from producer Romesh Dodangoda
The producer, engineer & mixer who has worked with Motörhead, Bring Me The Horizon, Funeral For a Friend and Twin Atlantic shares his knowledge
Cory Wong’s 5 golden rules for producing other artists
The helicopter-handed guitar hero on helming the new Phoebe Katis album
Valhalla Supermassive could be the best free reverb/delay plugin you download this year
Don’t miss out on this fine-sounding VST/AU/AAX freebie
Classic album: The Qemists on Join The Q
Liam Black, Dan Arnold, and Leon Harris offer a track-by-track rundown of their 2009 debut
The Track: Twin Atlantic break down the making of Barcelona
"We had a dawning realisation of like, ‘why the f**k have we been thinking that way?’"
The best home studio mixers 2020: analogue and digital mixing desks for all budgets
Our pick of the best mixers for the bedroom producer and project studio
Akai’s MPC Live II has built-in monitors for true standalone music-making
Everything you need in one box?
Latest recording tuition
What are 'feel' and 'groove', and how do they affect your music?
Learn how to give your productions a more human touch
7 instant workflow boosters to refresh your lockdown music-making
Whip your studio life into shape
11 ways to improve your home studio monitoring setup
You've bought the right boxes and put them in the right places - now let's take your monitoring to the next level
12 affordable music tech products that will keep you inspired at home
If lockdown is stifling your creativity, here are some tools that will get those ideas flowing freely
9 genre-spanning music theory hacks: make better R&B, pop, trance and techno
Make better R&B, pop, reggae, blues, funk, jazz, trance and techno
How to design unique melodic instruments using an acapella vocal
ACM expert Shea shouts about his favourite sound design tricks for mutating the human voice into unique melodic instruments
How to create a track with NI Komplete Kontrol and Ableton Live
Use Komplete Kontrol to write a track in Ableton
How to make music on an old computer: 4 things you need to consider
Tune an older system for music production, and choose the right DAW, plugins, OS and settings to keep it running smoothly
How to use an electronic drum set with Logic Pro X
How to get the correct MIDI mapping for your kit
Latest recording reviews
Audient Evo 4 review
- £99
- €119
- $129
Audient have a history of big mixing desks, and now have one of the most compact interfaces available. Is it EVO so good?
IK Multimedia iLoud MTM review
IK's latest compact studio monitor promises to present your music as you’ve never heard it before
PreSonus Eris E8XT review
- £422
- €494
- $479.99
The update for this very popular PreSonus monitor range has landed... Was it worth the wait?
V-Moda M-200 headphones review
- £285
- €337.96
- $350
Headphones designed for professional studio applications are just what you need for monitoring, and these have Roland’s input too…
Radial Engineering KL-8 review
- £799
A feature-packed mixer/interface designed with the working keyboardist in mind
JBL One Series 104 monitors review
- £129
- $129
Compact desktop monitors need not be a total compromise...