Studio Test

Curtis Schwartz on the rack

Paul White again, with the first in a new series on ensuring your immaculate recording isn't ruined by a mediocre mix. This month: what not to do with mixing desks and outboard processors.

Treetop Avenue Studio, Ipswich

Line Level

What is 'line level'? What significance do the numbers -10, 0, +4 and +8 have to recording? What does MOL refer to? Plug in to page 48 and find out.

The Mix (1)

Part 15. David Mellor looks at how to create the perfect mix.

Paul Gilby focuses his attention on a cost-effective modular effects rack system from Tantek and scrutinises one of its modules - a versatile sampler and digital delay unit.

An interview with, the BPI's Producer of the Year.

Culture Club producer Steve Levine discusses his attitudes to modern music-making, and how the new interface makes his life easier.

Yamaha REV5 Reverb

Is there room at the top for yet another digital reverb unit? Mark Badger thinks so — provided it's 16-bit, has a 20kHz effect bandwidth, analogue and digital parametric EQ, can stack two reverb effects and goes by the name of REV5!

Studio Equipment — Part Three

8-track saga continues. This month we check out Accessit effects

Dave Lockwood explains how Dolby S noise reduction increases the potential of analogue tape recorders.

Dual Reverberation Devices

Introduction

Lowdown on constructional projects for the smaller studio.

UK's annual studio products event

Looking for an entry into the world of recording? Neville Unwin investigates one of the better-known beginners' courses in recording techniques.

Studio Wiring

Studio Wiring - how to interconnect all that equipment you've been buying.

A church, a portastudio, and a blue hippopotamus? Well, what do you expect from a band called Sam-I-Am?

A rundown of the new products shown at the recent Frankfurt Music Fair.

Offering 32 inputs on mixdown, four auxiliary sends, flexible EQ and the added benefit of a MIDI-controlled muting option, Studiomaster's ProLine 16.8.16 mixer has a lot going for it. Gareth Stuart checks it out.

Bel BD320 sampling delay

£600 (almost) buys you this boxful of MIDI-controlled digital effects processors. But can they be good quality? Ian Gilby dragged himself out of the studio long enough to give us his opinions.

Performance Signal Processor

Now that multi-effects processors are all the rage, Korg go one better by producing a unit which allows you to add extra effects via ROM cards. Vic Lennard discovers the advantages of open-ended signal processing.

The Mix (2)

Part 16: The mix (2). David Mellor goes still further in pursuit of the elusive perfect mix.

Cheap guitars, new samplers, drum machines, synths and more - plus free details if you want them