Jazz for the record

Beating The Block

Rowland Jones on how to beat writer's block when composing.

What is it with audiences these days?

Digital Audio Tape Recorder

After months of waiting, speculation and peering at display models hidden behind bullet-proof perspex screens, R-DAT has finally appeared in Britain. Are we all ready for digital recording yet or should we stick to the tried and trusted Revox? David Mellor looks at the first product from Sony, the DTC-1000ES, and gives it a taste of professional abuse.

Pulsar Silverado

Mid-price lights, top-end performance

A complete history of record production accompanied by quotations and anecdotes from no fewer than 18 of the world's leading producers.

Recording Electric Guitar

How to get the best in your studio from an electric guitar.

Mike Howlett predicts that the currently moribund state of the record industry is simply a cyclic phenomenon, and that things will soon be on the upturn.

Richard Niles searching for the source of his inspiration.

Where would Madonna, Giorgio Moroder or Stock, Aitken and Waterman be without sequenced bass lines? Rudi Cazeaux provides some guidelines and practical examples to help you create better bass lines.

In the third of an occasional series on the professional bodies who look after the interests of musicians and engineers, David Mellor talks to the APRS, the body which represents many of this country's leading recording studios.

Rockfield has a long and colourful history stretching back to the era of hippies and free festivals. Paul White finds out what goes on there now.

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a blockhead's history of reggae

How it was done in the heyday of Pop - Philip Bashe tracked down the bands your dad snogged along to and found out the history of the '60s hits

Busking

The much maligned art in theory and practice. Feature and acoustic guitar by Adrian Deevoy