Hondo's M1 - Road Test?

Another instalment of our column devoted entirely to Steinberg software, written and compiled exclusively for SOS by Steinberg's experts.

Printing the Part

David Ellis concludes his survey of music-transcribing devices. Among the products featured this month are units from Fairlight, New England Digital, Con Brio and Xerox.

Mint Jam Studios

A new breed of studio is emerging, ignoring the major record companies and putting their own product out there... Mint Jam is one of them

Studio setting up

Glastonbury sound

PA secrets behind one of Britain’s biggest festivals

Vintage technology strikes back

...including The A-Z of Analogue

EMU ESI-32

Affordable sampling from an original thinker

Basscheck, Guitarcheck

Six-stringed and headless. Dave Burrluck goes and does it again

Brian Wilson

Brian Wilson part two

Basscheck

Dave Burrluck passes judgement on a carbon fibre-necked original. Not a carbon copy at all.

...or, Andy Duncan's search for the self raising drum kit.

Or, when does a drum kit stand on its own 12 feet?

Conclusion

The Teac 80-8 tape machine, Tascam Model 5 mixer and dbx DX-8 noise-reduction unit: last month we examined them individually, this month we look at them in combination.

Level 42's Svengali gets his comeuppance

Touring With Nik Kershaw

Drummer Mark Price tells what it's really like to be up there on stage. Did anyone say terrifying?

Basscheck

Hot, headless and state of the art

Watch Your Gear

How to look after instruments and gear on the move.

16-bit Home Computer

Not just another home computer; more like the future of the entire domestic micro industry, not to mention the MIDI software one. Simon Trask has the details.

Basscheck

It's made out of wood, in England; it hasn't got a tremolo unit, but it has got a body and a headstock. Dave Burrluck marvels

BBC Radiophonic Workshop

Plenty has changed since E&MM last ventured into the hallowed chambers of Maida Vale. Simon Trask reports from the studio that started it all, but now seems aloof from the modern music scene.

RSF DD30 Drum Machine

From France comes a digital drum machine with more facilities per pound than any of the Japanese competition. Jean-Paul Verpeaux likes what he hears in this exclusive review.

Basscheck

It's Mark King time again. A handmade beauty with a gorgeous body. The bass, not Mark King

E&MM's unique buyer's guide spreads its wings, with a round-up of what's around in the world of sound-sampling.

Facts on the Rak

Denyer gets the Rak job at last, figuring that Mickie Most really ought to know something about putting a studio together. Seems he does.