Deep Studio

A look at Deep Studio - set up with the help of the Manpower Services Commission.

Glastonbury sound

PA secrets behind one of Britain’s biggest festivals

The next in Liz Coley's sequence of computer features

Level 42's Svengali gets his comeuppance

A Short History of British PA

British PA

Shure EC2/58 radio mic

Sounds without the cables

Pino Palladino, Mark King, Robbie Shakespeare and Geddy Lee — student of the groove Chris Maillard gets some lessons

what exactly do promoters do, and are they worth the money?

An overview

Mark Prendergast presents a general overview of record labels, artists, and recordings that make up the exciting area of new electronic and experimental music in the late 1980s.

I used to work with this prat once who thought that I'd mis-spelt compleat when I used it in an article - sometimes you just can't win, can you? Dave Hastilow, however, is well sussed and brings you sound at a stroke.

pop under the hammer

Very much the man in form, Steve Hill of Reigate does a lap of honour round the contents page celebrating his win of the coveted Teac 4-track package.

Intro...

An introduction to a series on "music in which people are doing interesting, and often strange, things".

...comes just above the Allen & Heath contents page blurb. Which tells the prospective Allen & Heath reader that on page 57 is Mel Lambert's story of mixer manufacturer Allen & Heath.

Dave Crombie checks out the Oberheim 4-voice polyphonic synth.

Jean Marandet illuminates the alchemy of sound and vision.

The Mellotron

Once considered an instrument no keyboard player should be without, more recently regarded as a mechanical monstrosity, the Mellotron was definitely an early sampler, but was it the first? Dave "Crumbly" Crombie reminisces.

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