One day, all PA columns will be like this... Jim Betteridge checks out Simple Minds' little bash at the Milton Keynes Bowl

Part 1 Nobby Line builds 8-track Tascam rig

Fair do's for all!

Hitting things and being more intelligent about the whole business, claims Geoff Nicholls.

the birth of loud

Two ex-cats and an earl add more lines to the story of Rock and Roll. David Marx chronicles

The Four Track Future - Where To Start With Cassette-Based Recording

Four-track Fandango - Gary Cooper looks at all today's choices for cassette multitracking

from Banshees to Creatures

What's been goin' on tradeside

Highlights from America's West Coast instrument expo. Hot scoops.

Alligator 200 watt electro-percussion combo in the studio.

Titanic sunk, Hindenburg lost — yes, it's the news section

What to do to get tip-top tapes from our master of the mastering, Steve Toke

a novice engineer's guide to what all the knobs and switches on a mixing-desk do

Reviewed

Demo Tape Discipline

the power behind the button

According to Turnkey

Effectscheck

A veritable jamboree bag of effects in one rackmounting unit

Jim Murphy

Rural recordee in Farmhouse sex romp with raving reporter

Jim Betteridge puts on his rubber vest, brushes his little moustache and goes to see the Frankies

The Lodge

Jim Betteridge gets pastoral down at The Lodge

Drumcheck

New sounds, new style, new solid set-up

Accessorycheck

An active circuit to boost your bass and take the hiss

Although Michael Nyman's name and music became known through Peter Greenaway's extraordinary films, Prospero's Books may see not just the peak but also the end of their creative partnership. But Nyman has other strings to his bow, as Mark J. Prendergast discovers.

SPK began by hammering away at anything from the scrapyard but now generate their metal beat on the Fairlight. We investigate the method in the mayhem.