On Fenderising his Gibson and varying his technique

Looking for a reasonable raita, an affordable axe, a cheap tubular bell? Read on!

Digital Sequence Recorder

In a world dominated by software sequencers, Rowland Jones finds he still has a soft spot for Yamaha's hardware variety.

Portable Sampling Keyboard

You want a synthesiser, a drum machine, a sequencer and a sampler, but you've got less than £500 to spend? Home-keyboard buyers are currently being offered just such a package, as Dan Goldstein discovers.

Gordon Smith Galaxi Bass meets Galaxi guitar

SynthCheck

Big brother of the Alpha Juno-1, Roland's latest addition to the new-look analogue Juno range has its ivories tickled by the estimable Jim Betteridge.

bash crash

A monumental meeting?

So You Say

What the people say.

programmer and composer

The jolly lads (and lass) currently blowing up a Gaelic gale with their drinking man's Folk have Adrian Deevoy reeling

With A Sampling Keyboard

Sampling keyboards offer far more creative scope for sound manipulation than most people give them credit for and they can be a real life-saver during studio mixdowns. Craig Anderton reveals some modern day production tips that will allow you to put your sampler to good use.

contents of an improviser's titter

combo bewitching watts

the experts help

quality in the loudness

The oddest stringed thing since Pinocchio, by a nose

Three different sounds from one pick-up.

How To Actually Set About It

Producer/Composer Robin Lumley details what's involved in writing and recording your first piece of music for a TV commercial.

The man the man who the man who makes the man who the man who the man who makes repetitive music.

Yamaha's rack effects box to end all rack effects boxes. Tim Goodyer finds out why you might want two.