What is one? Who has one? How can you get one? All these and more dealt with expertly by Bob Henrit

What to do to get tip-top tapes from our master of the mastering, Steve Toke

John Harris draws on personal experience to reveal some of the problems encountered when recording TV pop music programmes.

Living Dangerously with 'Doors'

A look behind closed Doors.

The Making of an Album

When Julian Colbeck went back to Bach to find musical inspiration, little did he think he'd end up recording a whole album.

Freelance engineer Steve Hall offers some guidance.

8-Track and the Jargon Jungle

Further into the jargon jungle of marvellous multitrack with Desperate Dean. Careful with them tracks, Richard.

Readers may suspect that Richard Dean's lapses into metaphysical metaphor result from a peyote button every five paragraphs. Yet this first article in his new series is full of useful tips beyond mere sound-on-sound.

Editing Techniques

In the second part of this series, Richard Dean turns his attention to the equipment and techniques you need for removing the dead wood from your hard-won demo or master tape, and shows you how to make the kindest cut of all...

Recording Tips

Demo Tape Discipline

the power behind the button

An Introduction to Digital Audio

Digital audio explained from the ground up — bit by bit!

Digital Audio

How tapeless recording works and what advantages it has over conventional recording systems.

If you intend to make samples of acoustic instruments or events, you're going to need a microphone - but which one? David Bradwell checks the various types and their uses.

Second part in our 'what do they do?' series. This month, what you do with the job.

Electronic drum kits give superb sound separation for the studio engineer - but he still has to mike up the cymbals. We investigate a novel application for the C-ducer contact strip microphone, which helps alleviate this problem.

Tape Talk

portastudios - get side tracked with a four-track

Contact miking stringed instruments.

Live Recording

Recording Peter Gabriel's Us

Mike Skeet explains how to bring sound on sound recording into the 20th century using two video recorders and a Sony PCM processor.

Sound Workshop

Paul White shows how you can explore classic mic techniques using basic equipment.

Producer John Walters discusses how those noughts and ones will affect us musiciany beings.