Tony Reed gets Turbot charged

The problems and pleasures of home studio upgrading.

UK's annual studio products event

No hype, no waffle - just tomorrow's products today

A peek at what’s new

Being a brief glance back at the fascinating history of tape recorders, from mono to digital

Keyboards with Magnum and Phil Lynott

Keyboard player with Magnum, Mark Stanway has also worked with Phil Lynott. Here he talks about writing, recording and performing with one of Britain's brightest rock hopes.

David Mellor gets to grips with a multitrack cassette recorder, an autolocator, a 16-channel mixer, a MIDI-to-tape synchroniser and a MIDI mute processor - all rolled into one compact box called the Tascam 644.

Although the title 'maintenance engineer' does not have the glamour of 'producer', it is an essential job. Paul Ward tells us why.

An appraisal of this popular, easy-to-build Analogue Reverb kit - a possible alternative to the spring-based devices?

The Alternative

So far, affordable 16-track has been a one horse race and all the money has been on Fostex. But now the odds are getting more interesting as a lively young thoroughbred from the Tascam stable enters the starting stalls. David Mellor assesses the form.

From the humblest of 4-track cassette recorders to the might of 48-track digital, multitrack is the technique used for 99.9% of all commercial recordings. David Mellor looks at the background to this powerful tool and wonders how we ever managed without it.

Classic retrospective re-evaluated

John Harris and Shirley Gray take a look behind the scenes to find out how the tube is recorded and how much planning is necessary to produce the apparent unrehearsed chaos that we all know and love.

3G Mynah Mixing Console

Mike Simmons tries out this cost-effective live sound console and finds it also has home studio applications.

Recording system review

earstrain part two

DJ Mixers

A three-way test of DJ mixers