The Beatles – Tomorrow Never Knows

Our free plug-in this month is a vintage vocoder emulation – designed to recreate the sound of hardware from the early 1980s.

A multi-instrumentalist, singer and audio engineer, Currently collaborating with three different bands, James Gancarz is this month`s SoundGym Hero!

Sometimes we make the most satisfying discoveries by accident; if you are in full control of your workflow, you are never going to be surprised by any part of your production process.

Bass guitar player, Sound engineer and Part of the instrumental post-rock trio Transmission Zero, Krzysztof Rutka is this month`s SoundGym Hero!

The product is essentially an exciter, which means that it uses subtle distortion to enhance your audio in various ways.

This month we take a look at Soft Cell`s `Tainted Love` – a track that spent a record breaking 43 weeks on the Billboard Hot 100.

Each month we shine the spotlight on one SoundGym member by reviewing one of their tracks for our Music Spot feature. This month we focus on `Cry` by ODREE.

Compression is one of the fundamental processes we use when mixing music. We will take for granted at this point that you know what each of a compressor`s controls does, and that you are comfortable setting a threshold level. But have you thought deeply about how tweaking some of a compressor`s other controls can change the sound you are processing?

Each month we take a look at a classic track or album and discuss it from a music production perspective, examining notable aspects of its recording. This month we explore `Rumble` by Link Wray.