Part 2, ARP to Buchla. Buchla? Yep, Buchla

Ben Duncan guides us through the mystic world of jack plugs and tells us why not to take them for granted.

some strange advice

BBC Radiophonic Workshop

Radiophonically speaking

Direct-to-disk recording for the Atari Falcon

Can this latest software package help the Falcon spread its wings?

twenty tools to take on tour

Martin Russ breaks off from his 20th century studies way in the future to report on some alternative goings-on which may soon materialise in the form of a new generation of powerful sampling synthesizers.

Hondo's M1 - Road Test?

Frankfurt Preview

A preview of some of the products that are likely to be revealed this month at Europe's biggest music show.

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

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.

Vintage technology strikes back

...including The A-Z of Analogue

Studio setting up

Glastonbury sound

PA secrets behind one of Britain’s biggest festivals

EMU ESI-32

Affordable sampling from an original thinker

Basscheck, Guitarcheck

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

Basscheck

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

Brian Wilson

Brian Wilson part two

Level 42's Svengali gets his comeuppance

...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.