Taking The Mike

Taking the Mike — All you'll ever need to know

The Four Track Future - Where To Start With Cassette-Based Recording

Four-track Fandango - Gary Cooper looks at all today's choices for cassette multitracking

Part 3 of the 8-track At Home review by Nobby Line

Studio Equipment - Part Two

Nobby Line continues the run down on Music U.K.'s 8-track package. This month — accessit units

Reel To Reel - Your First Move?

More hints for your demos

Studio Equipment — Part Three

8-track saga continues. This month we check out Accessit effects

Studio Check

Rebis recording effects systems — Nobby Line

With a little thought and a few 'tricks of the trade', it is possible to produce top quality recordings at home. David Mellor explains how.

Overdubbing With The Sony PCM F1

Sony PCM F1

Introducing the Sony PCM F1 recorder.

Ambient Corporation

Forget the Fairlights, ditch the D.D.L.'s — ES&CM reader Graeme Robinson shows how you can beat it with the big boys, using just a couple of multitracks.

An Alternative To Tape

From the analogue to the digital era, magnetic tape has been the prime production medium for recorded music for several decades. David Mellor examines new developments in recording and speculates where they might lead.

David Mellor continues our 'How It Works' series with an investigation of the many ways available to help silence your recordings!

From the humblest of 4-track cassette recorders to the might of 48-track digital, multitrack is the technique used for 99.9% of all commercial recordings. David Mellor looks at the background to this powerful tool and wonders how we ever managed without it.

Do you live in peace with your cassette recorder? Or is your life full of mangled tape misery and longings for lost high frequencies? Confirmed reel-to-reelie David Mellor explains the problems that bedevil the cassette format, and offers some advice to make the medium work for you rather than against you.

'When I Think Of You' by Janet Jackson

One good means of learning your way around the equipment you own is to use it to recreate somebody else's music. That's exactly what Mike Collins did last year whilst working at Yamaha's Research & Development Studio in London. Using nothing but Yamaha gear, he set about reproducing a Janet Jackson hit in full, by himself. Here, he recalls what was involved.

Building A Rack

Part 4: Building a 19" rack. There is only so high a temporary stack of equipment can get before it becomes a danger to life and limb. David Mellor explains how to give your rackmount gear a happy home.

Instant multitracking with a pair of stereo tape recorders.

Once again our Cardiff correspondent gives us the benefit of his experience by describing how he put together an efficient and cost effective home studio for the recording of electronic music.

Miking applications for this novel transducer that will turn your electric bass 'acoustic'!

How to record a cheap live album — an easy way out with direction courtesy Richard Elen.