One man in search of perfection. Dave Burrluck gives his verdict on the state of the axe

Thomas Dolby is back after a four year break, without the mad professor image but with an excellent new album in Astronauts & Heretics, his most personal recording to date. Paul Tingen spoke to him about the long road from solo synthesist to globe-trotting collaborator.

Composition Centre

Announced over a year ago, the all-American DPM3 has finally landed on our shores. Martin Russ takes the wraps off Peavey's much publicised first foray into the hi-tech keyboard market.

Emagic Logic Audio

Direct-to-disk software for Mac

A readable survey — the first part covering manufacturers from A to L.

The first in a major series of articles describing the design, construction and applications of the Programmable Digital Sound Generator, a music hardware add-on for the BBC Model B. Introduction by Alan Boothman.

Metronome Studio

Metronome Studio.

With a little thought and a few 'tricks of the trade', it is possible to produce top quality recordings at home. David Mellor explains how.

Birmingham's Triangle Media & Arts Centre houses what is probably the largest 8-track recording facility in the country. It also runs some interesting extra-curricula activities in the form of a Rock Recording course. We asked the man in charge, Bruce Hart, to tell us more about it.

Summer Holiday On Stage

Fun Fair, who was there.

Hugh Padgham takes us behind the scenes to explain the tricks and techniques used in the recording and mixing of Phil Collins' 'In the Air Tonight'.

Bootleg synths a killer?, New EX, Alligator PA, More scoops

The story of a CD

Not many people would have the courage to give up a lucrative career in the jingles business in order to record and release their own CD. But that's precisely what Simon Renouf has done, and this is his story...

An interesting interview with Andre Jacquemin who just happens to be the man responsible for the recording of the Monty Python madness that's surfaced on film and vinyl over the last decade or so.

Sounds, samples, & software upgrades for the modern studio

New software, systems, sounds, updates

In case the current wave of BMF-madness has overtaken you completely, MT dropped in on the annual Chicago show to see how the Americans do it. Report: Dan Goldstein, Rick Davies, Paul White and Bob O'Donnell.

Clint Boon and the Farfisa beat

Ron Berry

News of Roland's brand new megasynth, yamaha's latest effects processors, and more — all in glorious colour.

A pictorial taste of some of the hot new products unveiled at last month's British Music Fair.

Tim Barr catches up with the Detroit techno pioneer