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When Dire Straits entered the studio to make their first album in early 1978, almost nobody could have predicted that the quiet, economical four-piece would produce one of the most distinctive guitar records of the decade. There was no elaborate studio concept, no huge production budget and no attempt to manufacture a fashionable rock sound. Instead, Dire Straits was built around a remarkably simple combination: Mark Knopfler’s fingerstyle electric guitar, David Knopfler’s rh

A merican idiot is Green day’s seventh studio album, It quickly became a benchmark for the sound of modern rock and still sounds fresh...

Having to deliver a follow up to the greatest selling album of all time, must have been no easy feat for Michael Jackson and his team....

The Beatles, the fabbest of four there ever were released their 7th studio album Revolver in 1966 and it was a watershed moment in rock...

The Fender Musicmaster short scale bass guitar was released by Fender in 1971 and was produced until 1981. The music master was intended...

Back in the early 60s when Rupert Neve come to prominence in the professional audio world, valve based amplification was still the...

Dbx, synonymous with compression in every studio for the last 40 years. But what does it sound like and how do they do it? The company...

1. The first thing I do is to organise, label and colour code each track. For example each drum track would be collected and placed next...

Stacked limiting is limiting an audio signal and then feeding that signal into another, and possibly a further limiter if you desire....

Back in 1998, I was recording with my band at a local recording studio when we were offered to record to 16 track tape or for quite a bit...