Ever since it became possible to record music, it's been possible to lose "valuable" recordings. Tim Goodyer raises the question of responsibility.

MIDI-To-Tape Synchronisation

MIDI-to-tape sync: why you need it, what it does and how you use it.

Pretending To See The Future

Jon Lord's 'Before I Forget'

A fully detailed transcription of ‘Before I Forget', (including instructions for 4-track home recording), for solo keyboard with band, group or orchestra.

Direct from the Far East, we bring you news of Yamaha's first 'pro' sampler, Roland's 16-bit digital reverb, Akai's low-cost digital multitrack and more...

Better than cheap frills, cheap reverb with no frills

An explanation of terms.

Form Or Function: What Are We Paying For?

Do manufacturers and distributors care too much about the appearance of products and not enough about performance? Paul Wiffen offers an insider view.

Soundcraft Spirit Folio 4 Mixing Console

Soundcraft's ultra quiet mixer goes multitrack.

Your Paul Hardcastle Aspirations!

Steve Howell takes up his razor blade once again and explains the basis for extended remixes.

We've now reached Part 4 where Robin Lumley surveys the technology of syncing sound and vision.

Mac Digital Audio Software

Cassette-based recording

Southlands Studio

Paul Ireson goes in search of paradise and finds it in the newly renamed and refitted Southlands Studio in Chiswick, London.

Tascam 388

A ‘portable’ 8 track recorder/mixer

Synthcheck

The professional successor to the Six-Trak meets Curtis Schwartz

The Power of the Floppy

Feeling floppy? Tony Mills slips a disk into his drive

Reader Mark Lowman tells of his X-15 exploits.

A budget spring reverb from JHS.

This little brother to the SBX-80 overcomes a host of syncing problems.

The coming of age of the Digital Audio Workstation has implications that go far beyond being simply another item of interest to electronic musicians. Craig Anderton brings us up to date on what’s happening at the top-end of the professional recording world and how it will affect us mere mortals.