mixed-mode CD tracklist

What’s on this month’s mixed mode CD/CD-ROM

Samson MPL2242

Live/recording mixer

MIDI Mutable Mixer

Most small mixers simply don't have enough inputs for even a modest home recording setup. One that certainly does is the new 20:2 Tascam MM1, complete with MIDI mute automation. Tony Hastings checks it out.

Details of new MIDI software and something for all Fostex Model 80 owners are amongst the new products we have for you this month.

Introduction To PA

This comprehensive series starts by looking at the basic components of a mobile PA system.

Good buys

A mixer from Simmons? Why not? The application of MIDI control to audio mixers is resulting in a radical departure from traditional designs, as Tony Hastings found out when he road-tested the SPM8:2 recently.

Instruments and Equipment

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

As musical equipment evolves, so does the music that is made with it. But what of the musicians - how is their evolution determined by a microchip?

The Teac 80-8 tape machine, Tascam Model 5 mixer, and dbx DX-8 noise-reduction unit.

Where To Hire The Things You Cant Afford To Buy

Where to hire the things too expensive to buy.

A MIDI User Knocks The Knockers!

A MIDI user knocks the knockers! Simon Sanders of Micromagic puts the case for leaving MIDI users alone to get on with making music.

What to expect at the Big Show in June

Spirit PowerStation

Return of the powered mixer

Power Amps and Loudspeakers

The songs are good, the band is great, but no-one will be unpressed if they can't hear you properly. David Mellor advises on PA hardware.

16:4:2 Mixing Console

the birth of loud

AHB Keymix

Simon Trask takes an in-depth look qt a computer-controlled modular mixer. Does MIDI programmability represent the future of the mixing console?

The scope of MIDI control has expanded beyond that of simply allowing one synthesiser to control another. Chris Meyer explains how you can now shape a whole mix using the five-pin DIN plug.

What's been goin' on tradeside

The gear piles up in your home studio, and you realise you can't manage another mix without a decent desk - but how can you afford it? Nigel "Mixmiser" Lord puts Fostex' budget desk through its paces.