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Bye-Bye 1991, Bienvenue 1992!Article from Sound On Sound, January 1992 |
Welcome to the new-look Sound On Sound. As I hope you noticed from the cover, we've given the magazine something of a facelift; nothing radical, but I think you'll find that our new design makes for significantly better-looking articles, and an easier read.
You may also have noticed that our cover price has increased by 30p. We haven't put the price up for some time, and rising production costs mean that we have to ask you for that little bit extra, I'm afraid. Not least of the reasons for increasing costs is that Sound On Sound has been getting so much bigger, and printing more pages costs more money. In order to bring you even more pages of features and reviews, from this month onwards the SOS Software, SOS Bookshop and other mail order pages will be printed in a loose-inserted booklet, rather than in the body of the magazine. We've got plenty more ideas up our sleeve for the coming year; that extra 30p a month will buy you more magazine than ever before.
We're getting 1992 rolling with some major reviews and features. Paul D. Lehrman takes a good hard look at Digidesign's Pro Tools, the first genuinely affordable multi-track hard disk recorder. 'Affordable' is still a relative term, but this is where recording is headed, and anyone with a serious interest in hi-tech can't afford to overlook its importance.
In The Complete Synthesizer Buyer's Guide, Julian Colbeck presents an overview of where the synth market's been and where it's going, and better still we've compiled the crucial specs on all current synths and synth modules, a handy reference for anyone in the market for a new instrument. The very latest arrival in that market is the Emu Proteus Master Performance System, and this month we have an exclusive hands-on preview of the keyboard. Of course that can hardly do justice to a major product such as this, and an in-depth evaluation will follow next month.
Other highlights this month include a look back over 60 years of Abbey Road Studios — a remarkable part of UK music and recording history, and very much a part of its present — plus Dave Lockwood's excellent practical introduction to understanding microphones, and a review of Tascam's VCA-automated M3700.
One change that isn't quite as obvious as our redesign is that all prices listed by advertisers in the magazine now include VAT; except for those of you (certainly a minority) who are VAT-registered, ex-VAT prices can be confusing and annoying, so we're only too happy to ensure that when you pour over those ads to compare prices, from now on you can do so without all that tedious mental arithmetic.
Well, with a parting 1992-and-all-that cry of "Joyeux Noel", I'll leave you to get on with the serious business of reading your new-look Sound On Sound. Ciao!
Editorial by Paul Ireson
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