Mixing / Production

Hip-hop collective Brockhampton abandoned their home studios for Abbey Road — and left with a number one album.

To mark its 50th anniversary, two bands have taken to the stage to pay homage to Wendy Carlos’s classic crossover album Switched-On Bach.

The brief for supplying a sound system for a youth piano concert was to make the rig look and sound as transparent as possible...

In a world where almost everyone is mixing ‘in the box’, Mark Ralph and Clean Bandit have gone the other way.

You don’t have to play synths or ‘real’ instruments to make music: embrace the experimental, and you could use almost anything...

The songs of ABBA are reaching new generations of fans, thanks to a second hit musical movie. Bernard Löhr was the engineer who recaptured them!

You can do so much more with noise gates and expanders than nix unwanted noise...

Beyoncé and Jay-Z topped charts worldwide with their album Everything Is Love. Stu White was the engineer who made it possible.

K‑pop is a truly global music style, and BTS’s successful assault on the US charts was led by a British mix engineer.

Sound designer Walter Trarbach and Foley artist Mike Dobson tell us how they created the sound world for this unique musical adaptation of a hit cartoon.

Having created the conditions for a successful mix last month, what can you do to fit your vocal in the mix?

Despite paying a studio to record and mix their album, Tommy Allen’s band weren’t keen on the result. Could our engineer do any better?

Once you’ve recorded, edited and comped your vocals, a little careful prep work could pay real dividends when it comes to the mix.

Successfully integrating dance and country music on Kylie Minogue’s latest album posed a new challenge to producer, songwriter and mix engineer Sky Adams.

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…

You might expect the job of a forensic audio analyst to be similar to that of an audio engineer, but it’s a lot more complicated than that!

The principles behind George Ezra’s second album sound simple: great songs, great vibe, and plenty of crunch. In practice, things got a bit more complicated...

Our engineer works the mix to get a pop-funk track competing sonically with the likes of Jamiroquai.

In the hands of Kendrick Lamar, blockbuster movie Black Panther spawned a new type of ‘soundtrack’ album. Engineer Matt Schaeffer was at the controls.

Working with a producer and an ambitious timescale, our engineer planned ahead for the best chances of a good result.

Performed live and filmed in a single take, Justin Timberlake’s ‘Say Something’ is one of the most ambitious music videos ever made.