Monitor Speaker System Model 6

Home recording monitors

Production Tips & Techniques

Studiotest

A dream or a mere luxury?

Synpac Battery Eliminator

A no-nonsense, standard format split recording console at a sensible price.

Wiring A Patchbay

Part 5: Patchbay wiring. David Mellor proposes a more practical wiring system for your studio.

'Guitar-style' effects pedals are frowned upon by conscientious recordists but, surprisingly, some can yield very good results as we discovered.

Another chance to do some crystal gazing at product development in the music/recording/visual fields.

Software for Apple Macintosh

If you're lucky enough to have an Apple Macintosh computer, you can now take advantage of a revolutionary new program that improvises its own music based on the data you feed it. Review by Jim Burgess.

The MTR SLM82 Line Mixer

If you've run out of channels, you might find this little mixer a profitable way to fill up your rack space.

Readers send in their own favourite synth sounds and how to generate them. Plenty of monosynths this month, including the Moog Prodigy, Transcendent 2000 and Roland SH-101.

Alesis Quadraverb Plus and Datadisk SQ

Upgrading your equipment doesn't always mean selling the old stuff and replacing it entirely: new facilities and features may be only a chip away. Tony Hastings looks at updated versions of two Alesis units.

ADAT for all seasons

Power Play Portable? Gary Cooper finds out

Unveiled at this year's BMF, Roland's MV30 combines a sequencer, multitimbral synthesiser and an automated mixer in a single unit. Simon Trask previews a new direction in synth technology.

Hints, Tips & News From The World Of Music Software

More software hints and tips from C-Lab and Steinberg.

Dod 944 Chain Reaction

On the rack again!

Etcetera

Split as they are (these pages) into Studios and Recording, Instruments and Equipment, and Etcetera (for news pieces with no homes to go to).

In this age of the preset, you need all the help available to stamp your personality on the sounds you produce. Paul Ireson finds a new ally in the fight for individuality - ART's fully programmable, four-effects-at-once signal processor.

Software for the Atari ST

If your studio's musical output is largely synthetic in nature and you are considering an increase in tracks, then Steinberg Research's Pro-24 recording software for the Atari 520ST micro could prove a better option than a conventional tape recorder. Tony Hastings tells why.

Software for the Atari Falcon

From D2D2U - tapeless recording on the Falcon

Buying an old Revox

Spotlight on old recording devices. This month the Revox E36 tape recorder.

Modular Mixing Console

Does Soundcraft's new 200 Delta mixer succeed in being all things to all men? David Mellor finds out...