Even more space means we can relieve some of the backlog of tapes yet to be reviewed, if you're still awaiting the HSR once-over, maybe your tape is amongst this month's batch?

Once a recording studio was a large room lined with futuristic acoustic tiles and filled with impressive equipment; now it could be the corner of a bedroom - it's all a matter of size.

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Guitar

Studio 99

Richard Walmsley takes a ferry across the Thames to this Woolwich based eight-track facility.

Readers send in their own synth sounds and details of how to programme them. Among the instruments featured this month are the Moog Source, the Roland SH101 and the same manufacturer's Juno 106.

Dave Stewart puts the case for phlakaton phlakaton, as opposed to boum kaf boum kaf (yes, it's drum music time!), in the latest of his carefully worded, skillfully constructed, er...

What's hard disk data storage, and what can it do for you? Stefan Lipson looks at the advantages of hard disks and how they can make your computer music system more efficient.

Acoustics

How to get the best from Wharfedale Diamond monitors.

What a difference a show makes - or further thoughts on the British Music Fair '86.

Simon Trask hits the bottom once more