SOUND ON SOUND
Editor In Chief Sam Inglis has been with Sound On Sound for more than 24 years, rising through the SOS staff ranks until in 2020 he took over the Editor In Chief hotseat from Paul White.
Sam is a recording engineer, producer, songwriter and folk musician who studies the traditional songs of England and Scotland, and the author of two books: Neil Young's Harvest (Bloomsbury, 2003) and Teach Yourself Songwriting (Hodder, 2006).
As well as writing, Sam can be found presenting SOS Podcasts and SOS TV YouTube Exhibition Videos on our channels.
I need a recommendation, or advice at least on choosing a soundcard. I want to work with both audio and MIDI. At some...
The world is full of manufactured pop bands, but the innovation of the TV show Popstars is to turn the manufacturing process itself into entertainment. Sam Inglis talks to the producers behind the resulting smash hit single.
I like to make trancey/atmospheric music and am wondering what you need for a synth sound to become 'alive'. I find really...
Producer and engineer John Leckie is renowned for his work with English pop legends such as John Lennon, The Stone Roses and Radiohead. Recently, however, he left behind the comforts of Abbey Road to record one of Africa's best-known singers on location in Senegal.
I've been DJ'ing (trance and hard house music mostly) for two years. I've done countless small gigs and several fairly...
Sam Inglis demostrates how you might furhter enrich your lyric writing with the use of comparisons.
The standout track from Dido's debut album No Angel is known to millions as a TV theme, and is now a smash hit single in the UK. Sam Inglis talks to Pascal Gabriel, who co-wrote 'Here With Me' with Dido and his colleague Paul Statham, and programmer James Sanger, who helped to shape the final version.
What's the connection between Madonna and Stockhousen? Sam Inglis meets a producer who puts the 'art' into chart music...
I've recently bought myself an electroacoustic guitar and it sounds really loud, clean and crisp when I play it. Yet...
Last year's best-selling UK single came not from Westlife or All Saints, but a pre-school kids'TV series. Sam Inglis asks its composer and producer how they turned the theme into a hit.