Soundtracs Solo Logic Automated Mixing Console

A lot of bang for the bucks, and MIDI control too!

Whitesnake's Jon Lord talks gear & Technique with Gary Cooper

Sound and video post production engineer

...of Trilion Video talks about the differences in recording techniques between audio and video.

How to record guitar

Microphone techniques for 'Musique Concrete'

Mixing Desk

Not quite a desk in a million - studio owner Gareth Stuart gets to grips with one of TAC's 73 possible variations in their Scorpion mixer range, the 16-8-2+16.

Annabel Scott talks to one of the synth world's younger composers about a new album of raunchier, dynamic music, the result of his first sessions in Jive Electro's equipment-laden studio, Battery.

The distinctly eighties phenomenon of remixing is playing a significant part in the development of today's popular music. Tim Goodyer discusses the art of remixing with Norman Cook.

grab your slice

how to get your music on the radio

Equipment

Music For A Small Planet

An enterprising duo who mix business and pleasure in the pursuit of music making.

Inside this German synth pioneer's home studio.

Sampling

This month we focus on the hows, whys and whats of sampling.

10-Track Recording Package

Combine two 6-track cassette recorders, one synchroniser and a 12:6:2 mixer, and what have you got? A rather appealing multitrack demo studio from Sansui. David Lockwood reports.

A reversion to Rock 'n' Roll, an expanded guitar collection, a strange miking technique, another production job and he still finds time to go through Be Yourself Tonight sound by sound with Tony Horkins

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.

Software for Commodore 64

Mark Jenkins supercharges the studio with this latest hi-tech recording software for the inexpensive Commodore 64 micro.

Tony Horkins meets the crue-d crowd, and gets a lesson in manners

His successful production of U2 has brought musical sage Brian Eno back into the public eye. John Diliberto finds out what's become of his oblique strategies and how he approaches the latest technology.

The Beatles, Wings, Elvis Costello, Nick Heyward, Big Country... all have at one time or another come under the watchful ear of this producer/engineer.

BPM StudioTechnik CR73

Berlin’s hottest new condenser mic

FX tutorial

More top effects tips from Mr D