Buying and Selling Second Hand Gear Part II

The second second-hand special shows you how to cash in on clapped-out gear. Phil "DIYnasty" Walsh on used news

Not just echo effects

Digital Reverb

This long awaited product is now available and offers first class digital reverb along with a host of stereo DDL effects.

Yes, we can READ too! And to prove it

Sheer XTC

A truly classy digital reverb at a sensible price.

Anyone can build these useful drum pad triggers for around £10 for the whole set.

What it cn d fr th horn recordist (note clever typing trick).

Yamaha PS6100

The Yamaha PS6100 - portable F.M. power to the People.

fuzz, chorus/flange, and compressors from Arion, Boss, DOD, Ibanez, Korg, Ross and Tokai the beat goes whizzz

Sound Module

Take 20 classic keyboards into the shower? Now you can just trigger and go with E-mu's Vintage Keys sound module, provider of sampled keyboard sounds from the Minimoog to the Mellotron. But who would you have in goal?, asks Peter Forrest

Ben Duncan waxes lyrical in his own immortal style.

Sample Editing Via Midi

Why is it there are so many computer-based sample editing packages being released? Perhaps it has something to do with the fact that they make working with a sampler considerably easier. Jay Chapman ponders their worth.

Tonight the hot instrumental news is read by someone with a megaphone. Strange.

all the singer needs to know, part 1

Roland S550/S330 Sampling Modules

David Mellor looks at Roland's flagship rackmount sampler, the S550, and its newly launched escort vessel, the S330. Are they squaring up to fire a broadside at the enemy's sampling fleet? Find out inside.

poly, MIDI, bar-graphs...

Software for the Apple Macintosh

A logical development for Notator users? Maybe, but as Ian Waugh discovers, someone still has to cross the T's and dot the I's on this latest software sequencer from C-Lab.

Your Razor Blade

Steve Howell covers the basics of good splicing practice in preparation for next month's article on creative remixing.

Kawai are quickly making a name for themselves in the hi-tech field thanks to good value products like the R100. Ian Waugh files his report.

What's A Gate?

A gadget that only lets certain sounds through — geddit? Deeper analysis on page 20.

Drawmer LX20 Compressor

A compressor that will make you go soft at the knees. I liked it so much, I bought the product!

Do you live in peace with your cassette recorder? Or is your life full of mangled tape misery and longings for lost high frequencies? Confirmed reel-to-reelie David Mellor explains the problems that bedevil the cassette format, and offers some advice to make the medium work for you rather than against you.

an A to Z of micro talk

Mixing Desk

Q: Just what is a Minister Without Portfolio? A: A leading member of the Government who hasn't got Soundcraft's nifty new portable mixer, that's what. Nicholas Rowland raises questions in The House

Britain's finest (only?) mono