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You do not own as many microphones as your interface has inputs. You tracked drums at rehearsal on a couple of mics and on Monday morning the project sounds like pure sadness. Across three studio lab episodes, Jakub Hríbik of Pulp Studio takes it from the top: recording with one microphone, finishing the sound in your DAW, converting drums to MIDI and finally editing a multitrack to the grid.

Chameleon by Herbie Hancock. Sir Psycho Sexy by the Red Hot Chili Peppers. Higher Ground by Stevie Wonder. Behind that quacking sound sits one box that was left over from a dismantled synthesizer. In the first episode of StompStory, bass player Matej Krivánek explains where the envelope follower came from and plays you everything we have in stock at Muziker, from sixty-euro tiddlers to the Aguilar.

The best pedalboard is a computer. We go through five steps, from setting the input on your interface and getting the effect order right to the parallel effect paths few people can afford in hardware.

Changing a head is not a workshop job but routine maintenance you can do at home with a single key. We go through the whole process, from taking the drum apart and cleaning the bearing edge to tuning in a cross pattern.

Viktor from the band Fvck_Kvlt, also known as DJ VKTRD, built an entire beat on a single groovebox. We wrote his process up as ten steps, from picking a sample through drums and bass to the recording.

Restringing is the one bit of maintenance you will keep doing for as long as you play. We walk through the whole thing from slackening the first string to the final tune-up, separately for acoustic, electric and classical guitars.

Bridge, fret, pickup. You read these words in every guitar tutorial, but nobody ever explained them properly. Here is a clear guide to the parts of a guitar, from headstock to body.

A Floyd Rose gives you the best whammy action and the worst headaches. It works on the balance between string tension and spring tension, and when that balance is off, your guitar never comes back to pitch. In episode 16 of Studio Lab, Lukas and Jakub Hribik walk you through the whole setup: string changes, fine tuners, springs and blocking the trem. Here is the guide from both parts, written out step by step.

Did you know the first chorus in the world rang out in a church four hundred years before the first pedal? The chorus effect dominated the music of the 80s so strongly that it became the signature of the whole decade. Its story runs from pipe organs through a tape trick at Abbey Road to the blue box on the pedalboards of Prince and The Cure.

About to record hard riffs, modern metal or djent and your guitar loses intonation, pushes unwanted resonances or sounds muddy? In episode 15 of Studio Lab, Jakub Hríbik shows you step by step how to prepare and record a downtuned guitar so that even the hardest distortion sounds fat and clean. Here is the whole guide from both parts written out in points.