Roland SRV2000 Reverberator

Roland's first digital reverb unit is all set to make a huge impact on the market.

For even less than the price of a semi in Rotherham, you too can experience high quality digital reverb in the privacy of your own home.

The Yamaha REV1, possibly the most sophisticated digital reverb on the market.

Angel Recordings

Angel Recordings, Hull.

Treetop Avenue Studio, Ipswich

Chipping Norton Recording Studios

Chipping Norton Studios.

New Yamaha Products

A special feature this month, looking at the latest releases from the Yamaha stable.

DREAM MACHINE: roland space echo

the roland space echo lives - with the help of a little modern technology

Reverb Unit

A budget reverb unit for budget studios - although big studios might like it too. John Renwick plugs it in and gets a pleasant ringing in his ears.

Masterly tricks for simulating stereo from mono or for stretching stereo beyond the boundaries of your loudspeakers!

An interesting approach to experimental music using clocks as a basis for rhythm generation. Digital watches are right out.

Etcetera

Yamaha's rack effects box to end all rack effects boxes. Tim Goodyer finds out why you might want two.

Sound Workshop

Paul White shows how you can explore classic mic techniques using basic equipment.

Take the successful MIDIverb, remove the MIDI bit, reduce the number of programs to 16, and you've got the cheapest digital reverb in the world. Paul White lends it an ear.

Programmable Digital Reverb

...While Simon Trask gets to grips with a more expensive model from America, with more parameters, a remote-control unit, and various other goodies; is it worth the extra?

Don Larking guides you through the various equipment that goes to make up a home studio.

New keyboards, guitars and effects in the US

Paul Gilby scrutinises the world's cheapest MIDI controlled stereo digital reverb, the MIDIVERB.

New Casio keyboards, video and instruments

Dual Sweep EQ & Stereo Reverb

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!