Straight to the source, Jon Lewin quizzes Sennheiser technicians on what goes where.

'Guitar-style' effects pedals are frowned upon by conscientious recordists but, surprisingly, some can yield very good results as we discovered.

Industry Profile

Practice Amplifier

Low cost practice amplifier kit project that is good for keyboards and vocals too.

Ben Duncan guides us through the mystic world of jack plugs and tells us why not to take them for granted.

Impedance. What is it?!

This month, Phil 'I've been there lovey' Walsh discusses impedance — a distressing personal complaint often faced by musicians. Next month — curly leads, and what you can do about it: a Doctor writes.

If you have one of those oldie but goodie type synths that were pre MIDI fear not you can now link it into your existing MIDI system thanks to Groove Electronics

Equipment

Oberheim SEM

Oberheim had expanders on their minds long before Xpanders. Steve Howell extols the virtues of yesterday's modular approach to synthesis.

From our Greenland correspondent.

Alan Hoida dons his Santa outfit and explains the pros and cons of working on film as opposed to video.

Just what have the Japanese done to the Engrish Ranguage?

Organ Master/Island Logic

An add-on sound board, and a comprehensive disc-based music system for the Beeb micro.

Programmable Rhythm unit with 16 Rhythms and 4 Voices

Leslie Speaker

The CZ101 is the spearhead of Casio's first serious onslaught on the pro-synth market. We check out this contender for the DX's digital synthesis crown.

Part 3 of the Electric Drummer — also works with your microcomputer

Paul Nagle

Final part of our superb big value effects unit.