Digital voice editing

How to swing the on-screen scalpel

Why isn't everybody happy with 16-bit sampling? Why are 20 bits better than 16? Kendall Wrightson looks at the technology in the latest generation of analogue-to-digital convertors.

Digital Audio

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

An Introduction to Digital Audio

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

And you thought PCM was a medical complaint...

Do you know why top recording artists like Toyah and Haircut 100 are going digital? Our article explains why.

How the LP went in for a transplant and came back a DAD

An explanation of the technology behind the new sound recording revolution: how the LP went in for a transplant and came back a DAD!

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

The Compact Disc

A New Landmark!

The first of a special two-part feature highlighting the dawn of a new era in audio recording.

An introduction

PART 1: Digital Signal Processing is rapidly becoming more familiar to musicians and home recordists as digital effects become ever more commonplace. Nevertheless, the technology and principles behind it remain a mystery to most. In this new series Jim Grant offers a straightforward explanation of how DSPs work.

We've been sold and resold the idea that digital is better than analogue, but what is digital sound and why is it revolutionising music technology? Peter Bergren counts the bits.

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

Sound quality has long been a grey area in the world of sampling. Chris Meyer finds out it takes more than "bits" to make a sampler sound good.

With DAT poised to make the leap from the professional recording studio to the high street, David Mellor looks at the benefits of the format to home recording.

Casio's DA7 is one of the cheapest DAT recorders on the market, yet it is still a suitable machine for mastering. David Mellor reveals its better features and finds ways round a couple of problems.

Overdubbing With The Sony PCM F1

Sony PCM F1

Introducing the Sony PCM F1 recorder.

An Alternative To Tape

From the analogue to the digital era, magnetic tape has been the prime production medium for recorded music for several decades. David Mellor examines new developments in recording and speculates where they might lead.

MT shows you the best way out

Direct-to-disk recording explained

MT's guide to the theory and practice of the tapeless studio

Part three.