What are the best plugins to buy? What plugins are “must haves” for mixing and mastering.

This article is a quick guide to some of the great plugins from UAD that can be invaluable in mixing and mastering and how I like to use them.

Performing Pull the Trigger with Bad Pollyanna in 2015.

In this episode, Anikó and Steve talk with radio presenter and journalist Audrey Hall about the importance of truth, social commentary, and Jazz as the music of the Black community and of protest. She talks about the common trauma of the Black experience, from Miles Davis being arrested for trying to enter the front door of a club where he was due to play to George Floyd and police brutality. She talks about British identity and broadcasting. And, of course, the music, itself.

In this episode, Anikó and Steve chat with Christian Payne (a.k.a. Documentally) about the role music and audio plays in his life and work, audio caching, ferric archeology, his adventures as a stowaway, playing harmonica on the John Peel Show and not going to hell for telling fibs in Italy. Christian is a photographer, writer, trainer, speaker, multimedia documenter and general polymath.

In this episode, the supremely talented Olivia Hyde talks us through her creative process and explains how the dark nature of her songs is really part of her positive approach to life and death forged by the loss of her father and how that drove her to become a artist, singer and rock front person. Olivia Hyde is the lead singer and 50% of the songwriting team of alternative rock band Bad Pollyanna. She is also a solo singer songwriter, educator, mentor and coach.

In this episode, Anikó and Steve chat with Nadine Benjamin about about her latest collaborative theatre project called BEAM and her coaching and mentoring practice. British lyric soprano Nadine Benjamin is a charismatic and versatile artist who is in increasing demand on both the operatic stage and the concert platform. She is also developing great renown as an exponent of song, in particular Verdi, Strauss and contemporary American song.

In this episode, Anikó and Steve chat to director, producer and script editor Justine potter about adapting John Wyndham with Val McDermid, recording in coal mines, celebrities in the bed, having Liam Neeson whispering in her ear and how sound design and music can take drama into The Beyond.

In this episode, Anikó and Steve discuss art, music, comics, Goth culture and The God Machine with Chandra Free.

Chandra Free is writer and illustrator of The God Machine graphic novel series and co-founder/creator of Machina Corpse.

In this episode, Anikó and Steve discuss John Carpenter, Mad Max, Heavy Metal, comics, horror, gore, science fiction and audio cassettes with writer Mike Sizemore.

"Mike Sizemore is an award-winning writer and producer known for Slingers, hailed as 'the best tv show never made', his web series Caper and the critically-acclaimed London stage adaptation of Howl’s Moving Castle. He has also written the two-volume science-fiction horror graphic novel Vortex and many other comic book titles.

The Soundfackery Podcast is presented by Steve Kilpatrick (a.k.a. Soundfackery) and Anikó Tóth (a.k.a. Kokovocals) and covers all things sound, music, creativity and collaboration.

Podcast guests come from a wide range of background, including music, comic, art, film, academia, TV and radio.

This week, Steve contributed an article to a new magazine dedicated to British horror with an article about composer Elisabeth Lutyens’ scores for classic horror movies of the 1960s.

“If you have seen Amicus’ Dr. Terror’s House of Horrors (1965), The Skull (1965) and The Psychopath (1966), Hammer’s Paranoiac (1963) or Pennea’s Theatre of Death (1967), you can’t help but have noticed the wonderful, yet disturbing music.”

Steve Kilpatrick's score is both varied and powerful, harking back to Jerry Goldsmith's work on 1976's The Omen in the more devilish moments.

Soundfackery Productions offer high quality mastering service, including stereo mastering and stem mastering.

One of the very best things about working all day in my own studio is that I get to keep my miniature schnauzer Penny with me all day. She’s such a great dog and friend that I never don’t want her around. I’ve even taken her to multiple recording sessions at other peoples studios. People usually like having a dog around, as it can often diffuse any tensions that my arise. If you want to see photographs of Penny at these sessions, you can find them on my Instagram.

Earlier in the week, I snapped this picture of her patiently waiting in the dark under my studio desk.

I love radio.

Like '50s sci-fi, The Beatles, H.P. Lovecraft, Edgar Allan Poe, Quatermass, John Wyndham and Doctor Who, it's something I got into because of my dad. As a kid he would regale me with his reenactments of Journey into Space, as well as some other scary drama about skiers trapped in a cabin by an avalanche while an octopus-like space monster tried to eat them, which I’m pretty sure is an adaptation of The Trollenberg Terror. With these tales in mind, I used to await the Radio Times at Christmas (the only time of year when we felt sufficiently frivolous) to find out what dramas were going to be on Radio 4. I remember one year taping the Radio 4 adaptation of The Maltese Falcon and listening to it on my own at the far side of the room with headphones on while the rest of the family watched Christmassy stuff on telly.