Tricks and tips to get your guitar in near-perfect readiness for the playing of and that

Steve Howell and a simple footpedal controller for the Roland SH101. Plus a solution to The Case of the Missing Theremin Parts List.

Time Machine Revisited

An add-on for last month's Time Machine project that allows direct synchronisation of the Yamaha RX15 and MC202.

Discover how to make your acoustic feel and play as speedily as a light strung electric with guitar technician Adrian Legg.

Soldering the professional way!

Production Tips & Techniques

Valves

the detailed where and how of replacement

SERVICING THE MIDWEST

The Wires and Wherefores of Connecting up Your Studio

If you're spending hundreds or even thousands of pounds on studio equipment, you might as well spend a little time to ensure that it's actually connected up properly. Wilf Smarties explains how to avoid hums, buzzes, earth loops, and all those other nasty shocks...

Upsetting things that you've done to your own instruments.

Heave off One, bolt on Two.

Keep on running.

how they're made, how they fit, why they last

Interconnect

Studio 'earthing' techniques.

Interconnect

Studio earthing techniques: Part Two.

From the immortal pen of Ben Duncan comes the penultimate part of this epic reference work.

In the fourth part of the series, Ben Duncan deals with interference and possible remedies for it.

In the second part of this series, Ben Duncan discusses different types of mains filters and their applications.

Ben Duncan passes some of his tried and tested methods of evicting any studio gremlins that may be residing in the mains supply, and also explains the phenomenon of the singing light bulb.

The final part of the saga.

Ben Duncan continues his epic voyage into the world of less than perfect mains supplies.

Even more about Mixing Consoles

More about Mixing Consoles

Playback Alignment

Tape Playback Alignment