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Many affordable patchbays come half‑normalled by default, and to change that you must flip the cards inside. It’s easy enough, but there’s a knack...

Will I lose signal quality using a poor quality ADAT cable? 

Do your productions lack texture and movement? Your DAW’s modulation plug‑ins might offer a solution.

For The Love Of Mic Leader I find microphones fascinating. The very idea that something as ephemeral as a musical performance can be captured and stored still fills me with wonder. The engineering that goes into building these tiny precision devices is amazing. And the satisfaction to be gained from solving the 3D geometry puzzles associated with mic placement is hard to beat. In short, I love microphones and I don’t care who knows it! Sam Inglis, Editor In Chief.If your own love aff...

Cranborne Audio Camden EC1 Though billed as a high‑quality single‑channel mic preamp, the EC1 is a whole lot more. You’d have to have been living under a rock for the last few years to fail to notice Cranborne’s emergence on the pro audio scene. Their 500R8 and 500ADAT racks and Camden 500 preamp module have since taken the 500‑series world by storm. More recently, their Camden EC2 rackmountable two‑channel preamp improved on the already excellent Camden design. Both of those pre...

21 Ways To Improve Your Studio In 2021 New Year, New Studio! Acoustic treatment is often the single most effective way to spend money on improving your studio. With the world still busy fighting the coronavirus, professionals and hobbyists alike have been spending more time in our home studios. As well as making more music, we’ve had plenty of time to reflect on what’s working well for us, and what’s not. So the SOS editorial team shared notes to come up with 21 ways you can greet 2...