4-track Cassette Recorder

Yamaha's new MT120 cassette 4-tracker improves further on their successful MT100, offering excellent features including 5-band graphic EQ; Dave Lockwood boldly goes where even the manual hasn't gone before.

MIDI sophistication in the humble patchbay: this modest-looking unit can store 100 routings of its 16x16 audio matrix and place the proceedings under MIDI control. Lorenz Rychner patches things up.

60-watt Lead Combo

Derek Johnson finds this 24-input mic/line mixer is a useful addition to any studio setup.

psychoacoustic equaliser

Sound enhancement at both ends of the spectrum - and something in the middle.

Mackie LM 3204

16 stereo channel rackmount mixer

Quick Draw Sequencer

Award SP75 Sessionette Pedal, Palmer Junction Box

Bokse US-8 Universal Syncronizer

The Bokse US-8 Universal Syncronizer: Ian Gilby takes control.

How to understand those mixer type things that put all the noises through the PA. S'easy.

for Lower Noise

Equipment

Boger Brown gets interactive with his phrases

Effects

This month we make sense of effects units and what the words say.

This budget cassette multitracker should give the competition a run for its money.

Studio Test

Jim Betteridge gives it a damp reception

Steve Howell continues our beginner's guide to synthesisers by describing how sounds are shaped by amplifiers and envelope generators.

A professional quality mixer for live or studio use at an astounding price. Suitable for 8-track, 4-track and stereo recording.

This UK company's stereo noise gate offers many of the functions contained in top class gates but at a budget price. Martin Sheehan assesses its value.