Comment / Opinion

We are only a few short weeks into 2026, and I’m already tired of the C word. Apparently, to get ahead in today’s world, you need to be a "creator".

Mandy, Indiana are a four‑piece band from Manchester via Berlin, made up of Scott Fair, Valentine Caulfield, Simon Catling and Alex Macdougall.

Anything to do with studio gear and music production holds an endless fascination for me. So, when I first put pen to paper to begin my debut crime novel (my other passion) I knew the tried and tested police detective trope would be hoofed out in favour of a hip record producer.

Long live Sound On Sound magazine! It’s the only magazine I trust to give me useful facts — real facts.

Rock & roll changed everything. Not least, the music industry.

We asked music professionals how AI is changing their world.

Whilst VR isn’t teleporting us to our own personal Abbey Road, it is becoming more relevant in a production context.

I feel like the sounds of nature, a bustling city, or even devices such as dishwashers and cars are just as interesting as acoustic or electronic instruments. I wonder if other musicians feel the same?

British‑South African artist and producer Galina Juritz has worked with groups liks ShhArt Ensemble and Inclementine, and composed numerous film and animation soundtracks.

Helmuts Bems, Co-Founder and CEO of Sonarworks, discusses the findings of their recent AI survey. The conversation explores differing industry perspectives on generative versus assistive AI and provides insight into the extent to which professional musicians are already adopting these emerging technologies. 

Sicilian composer, producer and instrumentalist Donato Di Trapani is best known internationally as synthesist and keyboard player for Paolo Nutini, but he is also the co‑founder and resident producer at Indigo Studios in Palermo, where he and Nutini first met.

The Swiss Museum of Electronic Instruments is the synth wonder of the world.

To mark Sound On Sound’s 40th anniversary, we have put together a list of 40 milestone developments from the history of recording and production, which we’ll be counting down over the next four issues.

Paul White and Hugh Robjohns pick their hardware and software highlights from the gear they've reviewed in the last 12...

The world has changed. Pop and rock music is no longer exclusively youth‑focused. In 2025, the average Sound On Sound reader is as likely to be figuring out how to spend their retirement as they are to be entering college.

I challenge anyone to show me a magazine that evokes such passion from its readership as Sound On Sound...

Digital modelling has become so powerful that you might think there wasn’t much mileage left in the idea of analogue emulation. If you can accurately mimic some piece of vintage gear in a few lines of code, why bother developing and building complex analogue circuits to do the same thing?

When did the idea of being able to operate purely in the digital realm become a reality?

Paul White and Hugh Robjohns address some of the most frequently-asked questions about home studio recording and production. 

Is there a productivity crisis in music? The PR material put out by some software companies suggests so.

My early introductions to electric guitar came via the big‑box VHS cassettes we rented from the video store for our family movie nights.