Mark J. Prendergast looks behind the anonymous front of the KLF, riding high on the success of 'What Time Is Love' and '3am Eternal'.

Rack Mounting Versatility from Cutec

Building A Headphone Attenuator

A simple but ingenious alternative for home practice - a headphone socket to fit to your amplifier.

Studio Equipment - Part Two

Nobby Line continues the run down on Music U.K.'s 8-track package. This month — accessit units

...and left hand keyboard techniques

shape up those left hand keyboard licks

Al Jarreau's band itemised and analysed by Jim Betteridge

PA — An Introductory Appraisal

How to get sessions, or at least lie awake at night worrying about them.

Albion Phosphor Bronze 'Light' Gauge Acoustic Strings 011-049

120 memory programmable four/six/eight-note poly with keyboard split

A Look Around

Passport AudioTrax

MIDI and hard disk recording on the Mac for only £260? It sounds too good to be true, but Paul Wiffen pinches himself and finds he is awake!

A Series By Warren Cann.

Could you squeeze an eight-channel programmable MIDI mixer into a 1U-high rack-mounting unit? Simmons could, and their endeavours could appeal to all kinds of musicians, as Rick Davies reveals.

Something to play with in your pocket

mixed-mode CD tracklist

The words behind the sounds on this month's CD and CD-ROM

On this month's RE: MIX mixed-mode CD...

What’s on this month’s CD and CD-ROM

Turning a collection of samples into a usable keyboard patch is one of the most important aspects of sampling. Tom McLaughlin puts samples on the map.

(But Were Too Afraid To Ask!)

PART 9: Martin Russ continues his mammoth in-depth analysis of MIDI's SysEx codes with an explanation of 'checksums'.

16-bit Digital Recorder

An American 16-bit digital recording system designed to run with the Apple Mac Plus makes sampling direct-to-hard disk recording a powerful reality. Rick Davies gets his ear to the disk.