Bob Williams has one of the finest collections of analogue synthesisers in the world, and cherishes them with a care that would make the Science Museum blush. Peter Forrest crosses hill and dale to Cornwall to take a long, loving look, and uncovers a whole network of Moog and Mellotron devotees. Whatever next - 'The Antique Rhodes Show'?

There can be few musicians who've amassed such a huge collection of synthesisers as the ex-Buggles keyboardist. Paul Wiffen talks to him about his machines, and finds he still finds a use for most of them.

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Phil Walsh takes time off from watching DIY nasty to design a lead tester, plug prober, mike checker, buttock fondler. Oh all right, we lied about the last one

Second part of the great build-yourself-a-tape-MIDI-interface thingy.

Full circuit design for this very high quality, low-noise preamplifier.

A simple circuit enabling you to trigger the footswitch input of your SPX-90 from a positive trigger pulse.

Noise Generators

Noise sound synthesis with practical circuits

Tone Boost - Here's another project that's ideal for musicians new to electronics.

Transistor Power Amplifier Surgery

Oldies identified: Epiphone, Ibanez, Fender, Eros, Radiotone, Hofner, Rickenbacker, Excetro and Fasan.

Clive Keeler describes the building of a simple test tone oscillator which can be mounted in a patchbay if required.

High quality monitors for the home recordist

Part 3 of the Electric Drummer — also works with your microcomputer

your questions answered by the BBC television experts

Sneak Preview

Next year's new gear - Mag gives sneak preview

Paul Williams adds yet another module to the modular effects rack.

The final part of our professional quality monophonic instrument