Charvel Model 4 & Model 6

2 Charvels on test

Sony Hi-Fi Beta Recorder

Sgt Pepper

The Beatles' most celebrated LP is 20 years old this month: have a splendid time reading how it was made

A super-spy comes clean, but the questions go on

SMPTE/EBU Synchroniser

David Mellor reviews this SMPTE/EBU timecode unit dedicated to C-Lab's Creator and Notator sequencing and scorewriting software for the Atari.

IT visits Britain's percussion princes

Our regular monthly exploration of upcoming new products.

funk and hi-tech facilities

Books '84

instruments and playing in print

Once the exclusive territory of costly systems like the SSL desk, automated mixing is quickly becoming widely available. Lorenz Rychner looks at an automation system aimed at the budget studio.

Using the Kurzweil K2000 to create and perform a tribute to John Lennon

The first of an innovative new series on musical applications of your home micro

16-track Tape Recorder

Ever since its launch, the Fostex B16 has dominated the budget 16-track studio market Now Paul White tests its successor, the E16, and finds out if the improvements are worthwhile.

Where 'live' recording is involved, truth is stranger than fiction. Or is it?

Not so much a home studio as a studio in the home.

More recording legends: Norman Petty tapes Buddy Holly.

six strings out of a magazine

Soundcraft 200SR Mixer

A first rate general purpose live or recording desk that doesn't cost the earth.

Drum Machines and Electronic Percussion

Martin Sheehan looks at recording drum machines and electronic percussion

Brian Wilson

Brian Wilson part two

Andy Summers & Midge Ure Go To Rockschool

A day's filming for TV's Rockschool reveals Andy and Midge's playing tricks.

SoftwareCheck

Sometimes Musical Micro just ain't big enough to hold down a piece of really macho software... Tony Mills grabs a suddenly floppy disk, and enters the cage.

While many producers are content to work within one or two musical styles, Peter Collins casts a much wider net - using high technology to increase the number of possibilities open to him.