Making Music's perfect dealer speaks (grunts, actually).

The System

The System this month features ZTT engineer Paul Gomersall's MIDI sampler set-up.

The assembled masses of the IM review department wax lyrical over their selected favourites from this year's music fair.

Teac V-700

Teac's cassette deck - demo quality?

Bits of old wood with rusty chrome and split plastic bits are analysed by our resident expert.

Back on the master tape trail with tireless tracker Trynka. Stars watch out! You've been found out...

Three pages of forthcoming new products to tempt you to dig deeper into your pockets later on this year.

Part two of our countrywide survey of all the Best in Brit luthiery — Manson to Zemaitis.

Strange goings on at Recycled Goods plc.

It has been predicted that by the year 2020, the world will be entirely covered by a ten metre deep layer of home recording equipment. David Mellor begins a new series that offers advice on how to set up your home studio.

Martin Russ looks at solutions to the perennial problem of where to put all those keyboards that MIDI musicians accumulate.

New series - a dictionary of timber, beginning with R. (We lie, it's A.)

Bridging The Gap

Whilst Roland and Yamaha take LA and FM synthesis into the home, Technics make it even harder to differentiate between a home keyboard and a synthesizer with the release of the AX7. Paul Ireson checks it out.

Musical Environments

Part 3: Musical environments. The final part of a short series in which Martin Russ expands, exploits and explores the Atari ST computer.

The Mellotron

Once considered an instrument no keyboard player should be without, more recently regarded as a mechanical monstrosity, the Mellotron was definitely an early sampler, but was it the first? Dave "Crumbly" Crombie reminisces.

Find out how to direct the noise inside your room to better effect

A Guide to Recording, Electronic Music and Popular Music Courses in Britain

The first ever published guide to all Recording, Electronic Music and Music Courses available in Britain today.

PART 3: DIRECT-TO-DISK AND SYNTHESIS

In the final part of our look at the latest models of the state-of-the-art Synclavier, Scott Wilkinson homes in on the Direct-to-Disk recording system.

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Geoff Mitcham's account of how he set up his own mobile recording studio.

The month - this month

This month: Hohner