Goes Chrimbo Crazy

A special seasonal waft of your favourite news and gossip column, this time drifting through the whole magazine and including mini-interviews with the likes of China Crisis and jokes from the likes of us. The fun starts here.

More controversy and heated discussion on the subject of blank tape levies.

Effects processing is now an integral part of a recording studio - large or small. Aaron Hallas goes back to basics in this introduction to sound treatment.

PROAMP DEMON COMBO in Wizard test

Moog Taurus Pedals

Ultimate bass? Legendary synth pioneers Moog once made the best bass synth on the planet: Paul Ward reassesses the power of Taurus in the light of '90s bass mania.

It looks weird, it plays weird and by golly...

A look behind the scenes at some of MT's own out-takes: quotes from the famous, letters from the punters and photographs from the "rejected" file. So we all make mistakes...

Sixty Something

Part 6: Sixty something. Dave reflects on originality and where to find it.

Jazz for the record

Beating The Block

Rowland Jones on how to beat writer's block when composing.

What is it with audiences these days?

Digital Audio Tape Recorder

After months of waiting, speculation and peering at display models hidden behind bullet-proof perspex screens, R-DAT has finally appeared in Britain. Are we all ready for digital recording yet or should we stick to the tried and trusted Revox? David Mellor looks at the first product from Sony, the DTC-1000ES, and gives it a taste of professional abuse.

Pulsar Silverado

Mid-price lights, top-end performance

A complete history of record production accompanied by quotations and anecdotes from no fewer than 18 of the world's leading producers.

Recording Electric Guitar

How to get the best in your studio from an electric guitar.

Mike Howlett predicts that the currently moribund state of the record industry is simply a cyclic phenomenon, and that things will soon be on the upturn.

Richard Niles searching for the source of his inspiration.

Where would Madonna, Giorgio Moroder or Stock, Aitken and Waterman be without sequenced bass lines? Rudi Cazeaux provides some guidelines and practical examples to help you create better bass lines.

In the third of an occasional series on the professional bodies who look after the interests of musicians and engineers, David Mellor talks to the APRS, the body which represents many of this country's leading recording studios.

Rockfield has a long and colourful history stretching back to the era of hippies and free festivals. Paul White finds out what goes on there now.

birthday treat: One Two staff lick pencils

Continental Touring: Pitfalls & Problems