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Boom bap was not born in an expensive studio. It came from a turntable, a pile of old records and one sampler. A producer found four seconds of drums on a soul album, looped them and put rap on top. These are the ten albums it all stands on. You should not be missing a single one at home.

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.

The synthesizer was a luxury for a long time. In the sixties it took up a whole studio wall and cost as much as a car. Then it got smaller, it got cheaper, and by the early eighties even a broke band could get one. These are the ten albums 80s synth-pop stands on. You should not be missing a single one at home.

In the early 90s a wave came out of Seattle that swept away hairspray and long guitar solos alike. Grunge mixed the dirty sound of fuzz pedals, heavy riffs and punk honesty. We are counting down the ten albums the genre could not exist without, from number ten to number one.

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.

At the turn of the millennium the world was taken over by a genre that mixed heavy riffs from seven-string guitars, hip-hop rap, funky bass and DJ scratches. Nu metal was loud, honest and angry, and it defined a whole generation. We picked 10 albums without which the genre would not be what it is, and we tell the story of each one.

Have you always been drawn to the deep, singing tone of the cello and finally want to learn it? You can start at any age. We will tell you where the cello comes from, which one to choose, what accessories you need and how to make the first steps so you play sooner than you think.

Drawn to the bright, piercing sound of the trumpet and want to learn to play it? You can start at any age. We will tell you where the trumpet comes from, which one to choose, what accessories you need and how to make the first steps, from buzzing into the mouthpiece to your first clean tone.

Drawn to the soft, singing tone of the clarinet and want to learn to play it? You can start at any age. We will show you how to make the first steps from embouchure to your first clean tone, how to practise so you keep improving and what you need to get started.