With Sampling Keyboards

Vocal line out of tune? Lead guitarist fluffed his solo again? Craig Anderton reveals some ways of using a sampler to fix these, and other problems, in the mix.

David Mellor takes a day trip to the University College of North Wales in Bangor to visit the first studio in Britain to take delivery of an Akai DR1200 digital multitrack recorder.

Mike Skeet explains how to bring sound on sound recording into the 20th century using two video recorders and a Sony PCM processor.

The Compact Disc

A New Landmark!

The first of a special two-part feature highlighting the dawn of a new era in audio recording.

Most of us have bought CDs bearing the label "digitally remastered", but how many of us appreciate what's happened to the music in the process. Tom Doyle exposes the power behind the remastering button.

Mark Jenkins brings you a round-up of the current state of the digital reverb market.

More from Paul Williams on this exciting new addition to the Tantek range.

Part three of this fascinating project from Paul Williams.

Tantek's most ambitious project to date.

Part 3 of this exciting digital signal processing project offering a 5 second delay program for your Sinclair Spectrum!

PART TWO: Basic Effects

PART 2: Carrying on from last month's explanation of the basic principles of digital signal processing, Jim Grant explains how to put these into practice and create some useful and familiar effects.

Turn your ZX Spectrum into an echo machine with sound sampling capabilities using this month's unique project

Concluding The Digital To Analogue Programs

Part 4: ZX Spectrum freezes echoes.

The first of an innovative new series on musical applications of your home micro

An introduction

PART 1: Digital Signal Processing is rapidly becoming more familiar to musicians and home recordists as digital effects become ever more commonplace. Nevertheless, the technology and principles behind it remain a mystery to most. In this new series Jim Grant offers a straightforward explanation of how DSPs work.

Digital Filtering

PART 3: In this final part, Jim Grant builds upon the basic DSP operations of arithmetic and delay, covered in the previous articles, and concentrates on some modern day applications.

We've been sold and resold the idea that digital is better than analogue, but what is digital sound and why is it revolutionising music technology? Peter Bergren counts the bits.

Sound Workshop

Paul White shows how you can explore classic mic techniques using basic equipment.

ES&CM's guide to MIDI and MOPS.

Line Inputs

Monitoring

The Microphone Input stage