Studios and Recording

Pages to the power of three, taking in Stevie's Peavey, CB, guitar gallery, and more.

The University of Massachusetts electronic music studio

Sounding Out

Phil Walsh is in complete remote control, and tells you how to mix on a budget.

MIDI Time Code Controller

With sequencing and tape recording becoming equally important to many musicians, any means of integrating the two is likely to be a welcome development. Vic Lennard looks at a unit that allows Fostex' R8 to be operated from within Steinberg's Cubase.

Digital recording direct to hard disk, from the company that built its reputation with the Wave synthesisers. Paul Wiffen examines the new direction.

New Yamaha Products

A special feature this month, looking at the latest releases from the Yamaha stable.

Yamaha SB200, Roland SCC700 effects boards

Dave Ward enthuses over this very useful aid to multitrack control.

Eight-track reel-to-reel recorder

As 8-track tape recording takes its first steps onto cassette, Fostex introduce another revolutionary idea: the reel-to-reel tape deck with a detachable control panel. Vic Lennard does it from a distance.

Put two Lexicon 224Xs in one box, add a sprinkling of new features, and you have the reverb-based effects unit to beat them all. Paul Wiffen has the advance details.

The Yamaha REV1, possibly the most sophisticated digital reverb on the market.

Aiwa HD-S1 Portable DAT Recorder

As the prospect of DAT technology appearing in the high street approaches, Paul Ireson looks at Aiwa's new portable recorder.

for the Apple Mac

Ian Waugh logs in to a new Mac program that's a virtual CD player and virtually a sampler, allowing you to build your own library of alternatives to that irritating monkey squeak. What you do with your existing CD remote control is your own affair

cheap SMPTE coding

Add-on for Digital Delay Lines

Paul White and an ingenious 'black box' that gives older-generation digital delay lines a sampling capability.

Dave Lockwood casts a critical eye over this low-cost MIDI/tape sync box from Sansui.

SMPTE codes for the home studio and yet more software for the Synclavier, among other things.

It's easy to be impressed by Genius.