Dave Hastilow fishes around for some new angles on recording technique — in the field or at home. Or in the river.

Don Larking guides you through the various equipment that goes to make up a home studio.

There's more than one way to a living out of music. Nicholas Rowland talks to the Pync Brothers about writing and recording music specifically for use in TV and radio advertising jingles.

Orinoco Studio

Another studio receives a visit from a roving MT reporter. This time the intrepid Dan Goldstein drops in on South East London's Orinoco Studios.

As you've probably already got your sampler playing drums, horns and strings, getting it to sing to you may sound deceptively easy. Tom McLaughlin explains there may be more to sampling the human voice than you'd heard.

Drawmer DL251 Spectral Compressor

This sophisticated compressor has a choice of hard- or soft-knee compression and has a built-in spectral enhancer.

Don't delete those unsatisfactory samples until you've tried resampling them. Tom McLaughlin explains how you can turn a bad sample into a good one.

Recording Electric Guitar

How to get the best in your studio from an electric guitar.

Richard Mitchell explains his use of electronic music for film.

The cream of the recording equipment from the recent show

CD ROM player

Surrounded by sample disks? Swamped by sounds? Paul Ireson takes a look at Roland's new CD5 CD ROM player, the next step up in sound library management for S550 sampler owners, and a taste of things to come for everyone else.

Cassette Multitracking Guide

A complete idiot's guide to buying a four-track cassette recorder, with hints on what features to look for, and a rundown of some of the most popular machines.

Live Music for the Hi-Tech Musician

Everything you didn't want to know and couldn't be bothered to ask

In terms of sheer numbers, Hybrid Technology’s computer music system for the BBC micro outsells any other music software package on the market. Ian Waugh finds out why.

Yet another selection of recently announced new products to whet your appetite!

In the third part of our continuing series on the basics of MIDI, Bob O'Donnell concentrates on sequencers, their capabilities and their place in a typical MIDI studio.

Editing, Looping & Splicing.

Keyboard programmer Paul Wiffen moves on to the process of manipulating the sample in this series designed to help make the best use of your sampling machine.

RTL Event Sync Box

It's that man again! David Mellor enters the mysterious world of timecode and stalks one of its new inhabitants - the Event timecode/MIDI processor from Real Time Logic.

Exclusive news from UK Electronica, plus all the latest in the world of MIDI music

Beatfarm

The boys from Beatfarm Studios talk business, production, and new jazz funk

The latest reports from the lands of Trade and Product

Producer & Composer

Janet Angus talks to Dave about making the change between audio and video recording and the issues and problems involved.

The chief engineer at the Old Smithy, one of the Midlands' most respected studios, passes on a few pearls of wisdom.

Abandoning guitars for samplers, Skin became Fluke and discovered new artistic freedom. Simon Trask listens to the man/machine argument from people who've learned both sides of it.