Karl Steinberg & Mark Badger

Charlie Steinberg and Mark Badger define their concept of what should and what shouldn't be called a 'MIDI workstation'.

The School of Sound Recording could be just what you need to put you on the right track and now you have an opportunity to win a free place on one of their courses.

Multitrack Cassette Recorder

Affordable cassette multitrack with a few unexpectedly sophisticated features.

MIDI and SMPTE

Two industry standards settle their timing differences and agree to work together. Chris Meyer checks it out and discusses proposals for the MSMPTE.

digital time-conversion software for the ST

For easy-to-digest samples and delays that repeat on you at just the right moment.

With more importance being attached to the benefits of a fully-integrated, synchronised studio set-up, Mark Jenkins checks out a new-to-the-UK chase synchroniser package imported by Audio Services of Stockport that is ideally suited to use with Tascam recorders and supports both SMPTE and MIDI.

In the final part of his series on the synchronisation of audio and video, Francis Rumsey summarises the possible applications of timecodes in helping to automate the music studio.

Don Larking

If you've got a serious syncing problem, chances are the new Sync Box will be your best bet for a solution, as Paul White explains.

Playback Alignment

Tape Playback Alignment

We've now reached Part 4 where Robin Lumley surveys the technology of syncing sound and vision.

Production Tips & Techniques

XRI Systems

This low-cost unit from XRI brings the power of true timecode synchronisation to the masses. Paul Ireson checks it out.

Why has this top record producer - the man behind Culture Club's phenomenal success on vinyl - given up using the Fairlight in favour of a Steinberg Pro-24 system? Why is he so upset about the myths that surround digital recording? Ralph Denyer went along to Levine's new studio to find out...

Mobile One

A spotlight on Europe's largest mobile studio and its home base in London.

Recording Gear

There are bargains in the land of non-new taping equipment, specially if you like unfashionable effects

for multitrack recording

Recording on a Budget

Donald Aldous shows us around his home studio.

Bits & Pieces

PART 9: It is easy to list all the glamorous' items required for a home studio - synths, sampler, mixing console, tape machines, etc - but the small things are important too. In this final part of the series, David Mellor gathers together all those essential bits and pieces.

Engineer Dave Meegan recalls how depression helped land him a plum position at Trevor Horn's Sarm West Studios. Chris Allison listened with great interest.

Pyramid

Pyramid 8-track studio

Rag Bags and Hotch Potch

Another grab-bag of micro-goodies from IM&RW's computer hack (or is that hacker?) Tony Mills