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While ambient music can be stereotyped as meditative or calming, it bridges the gaps between noise and silence, helping us find solace.

Over time, accurate observations about specific things have a tendency to dissolve into dubious generalisations...

Combining deft production and fluent beat‑making with no‑holds‑barred spoken word and singing, Bristol’s Billy Nomates, aka Tor Maries, has enjoyed a fast ascent to cult success.

I bought my first CD player in 1984. I had been lusting for one since I first saw/heard the new format three years earlier,...

When Stormzy agreed to be interviewed for this month’s cover feature, he set one condition. We would, he insisted, be...

Paul White and Hugh Robjohns pick their hardware and software highlights from the last 12 months, plus feature some late arrivals.

Many years ago, a manufacturer who shall remain nameless sent us two iterations of their new product...

Ugandan producer and performance artist Tayo Alemi, aka Authentically Plastic, creates experimental electronic music.

My first experience with distortion was with guitar pedals. There was something amazing about physically stomping on a device...

Teno Afrika, aka Lutendo Raduvha, is one of South Africa’s fastest‑rising electronic music stars. 

Could live streaming open up fresh worlds for your music?

Spatial audio needs to offer more than just an iterative improvement — and if that’s going to happen, producers and musicians are the people who need to make it happen.

The electric guitar — has there ever been an instrument so identified with rebellion, with danger, with transgression?

How bad will the cost of living crisis get? Energy prices are forecast to rise by hundreds of percent this autumn. Inflation...

Are manufacturers becoming more willing to pursue original design concepts?

Malena Zavala pauses her cross‑cultural synth‑guitar pop career to answer SOS's nine core production questions...

Sometimes you need to free yourself from the reign of the click track and headphones...

For Elton John, sorry seemed to be the hardest word. For the sound engineer, it’s something we all have to say sooner or later...

Live sound has been a fascination of mine ever since I did my first live sound job at a pub in Cambridge back when I was at college and around 18 years old.

Engineer Shuta Shinoda faces the SOS nine-question treatment...

I write this column with two recent events in mind. One is the sad passing of legendary synthesist and composer Vangelis. The...