You send in the demo tapes - we review them.

Readers' own demo recordings reviewed.

Chris Heath and another batch of E&MM readers' demo tapes: perhaps we should re-title it 'The Good, The Bad and The Ugly'.

Readers and their music; another collection of demo cassettes examined by Tim Goodyer.

Just because we missed the column for a month, doesn't mean our readers have stopped sending us demo tapes. Ask Chris Heath, who's been sifting his way through the latest mountain of C60s.

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.

Cassette magazine

A potted history of this popular electronic music cassette magazine, by its co-founder Dennis Emsley

The multitrack cassette recorder provides an excellent platform for learning the essential skills of multitrack recording. David Mellor explains how to get the best out of them.

A no-nonsense, rack-mount multitracker with an attractive price tag.

Eight-track cassette recorder

The four-track cassette recorder revolutionised home recording and significantly changed the recording industry; will the eight-track cassette have a similar effect? Vic Lennard goes on record.

Tascam 112 and 112R Cassette Decks

Two decks, one basic and one sophisticated, but both offering superb performance.

Toa MR-8T 8-track Cassette Recorder

If you thought eight tracks on standard cassette was an impossibility, think again. David Mellor assesses the world's first 8-track cassette recorder. Will it do to 8-track tape machines what the portastudio did to 4-tracks? Read on and find out...

Every Current Model Reviewed

All you need to know about choosing a cassette multitrack, plus concise reviews of every current model on the market.

The final part of our professional quality monophonic instrument

Tape Talk

Once again John Harris and Shirley Gray of Ti-Na-Na take time out from the studio to constructively comment on what you've been putting down on cassette.

Your chance to win an Alpha Juno or TR505

The first of a series of articles in which David Mellor explains the tricks and techniques of the studio trade and how they can be successfully applied by the home recordist. This month's technique allows multi-instrument recordings to be built up using minimal equipment, and is known to its practitioners as 'sound on sound'. Now where have you heard that phrase before?

John Renwick gets synchronised with this nifty little device from Radius