Mike Senior's Expert Tracking & Mixing Tips. Distortion can be a surprisingly useful mix effect, if you know what you're doing. Mike Senior reveals several common applications, and explains how to get the best results in practice. See the Show Notes for further details.

Mike Senior's Expert Tracking & Mixing Tips. Mike Senior delves into some of the most common troubleshooting tasks when dealing with acoustic guitar recordings at mixdown, and shares his own favourite processing fixes. See the Show Notes for further details.

Mike Senior's Expert Tracking & Mixing Tips. Mike Senior explores the subject of Haas delays at mixdown, explaining how they work, how to get the best out of them, and how to avoid the most common traps associated with them. See the Show Notes for further details.

Mike Senior's Expert Tracking & Mixing Tips. Cardioid mics are tremendously popular amongst recording musicians, but can also work against you. In this episode, Mike Senior explains some of the reasons why, and illustrates how omni and figure-eight patterns can often give more useful results. See the Show Notes for further details.

Mike Senior's Expert Tracking & Mixing Tips. Depending on how it's set up, compression can do radically different things to the sound of a snare drum. In this episode, Mike Senior explores three ways in which a compressor can help bring your snare tracks to life. See the Show Notes for further details.

Introducing the Sound On Sound Podcasts. Yes, that?s podcasts, because we?re launching three dedicated channels each with their own series of episodes to keep you entertained throughout each month. You?ll hear interviews, features, discussion, opinion and occasional demos of the gear we?re reviewing from many of the SOS magazine staff and our expert Freelance team. The Recording & Mixing channel takes the practical approach and will keep you inspired with expert hints and tips.