Mick McKenna

Engineer Mick McKenna provides an insight into recording with the Rolling Stones Mobile.

Rane PE15 Parametric Equaliser

The Rane PE15 Parametric Equaliser.

Fairlight screens, machines and Green. Interview by Adrian Deevoy

Atari ST Software

Have you won our DX100?

After all these months, our Write A Feature competition has a winner. Find out why it was so long coming, and read the article that won its author a Yamaha DX100.

Take a deep breath. Now repeat after me: 'Tone's topping tutorial tips teach trainee tonsils'

Virgin veterans XTC are under pressure to pull off a Pop success with their latest album, Skywalking. So is it open season on Andy Partridge? Chris Maillard takes aim...

After the disaster that was the Linn 9000, why would anyone want to build another combined sampling drum machine and sequencer. Rick Davies has the answer.

Heavy, hairy and loud

Paul Wiffen reviews the new Casio FZ Sampler

Tangerine Dream have been at the forefront of electronic music long enough to be regarded as an institution. Mark J. Prendergast talks to Paul Haslinger about the TD experience.

Union Synthy Blues

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the fruit of guitarmanship disclosed

Ray Staff - Disc Cutting Engineer at Trident Studios.

Ripping Yarns from Perth popsters

The Human League are still one of the world's most successful synth bands, but their new album was a long time coming, and they've stuck guitars all over it. The League's Ian Burden explains why.

intervals and the keyboard, plus chord of the month

The world's best known engineer

Ray Dolby's name appears on almost every recording device imaginable, yet few people outside the industry know much about this most famous engineer. In a rare interview he talks to David Mellor and explains the evolution of Dolby noise reduction.

for the PC

Roland's first foray into the PC direct-to-disk recording field and it looks pretty impressive.

A 2-page Paracetamol for your technical headaches.

What makes one recording engineer better than another, and how can you improve your recording engineering skills? In this introduction to a new series on recording techniques, David Mellor outlines an engineer's role in the studio, and explains why a good engineer is so important.