Fostex R8 & Tascam TSR8 Recorders

Paul White checks out Tascam's TSR8 and Fostex's R8 open reel, 8-track machines side by side.

Cava Sound Workshops

Stuart Gillan on Cava, a studio that's doing alright in Glasgow

Lots of info about who has won what

Rick Palmer votes for volts

Aural Exciters

Strange devices that MAKE YOU pay attention.

Introduction

Lowdown on constructional projects for the smaller studio.

Reviewed

Hybrid Arts budget package that thinks big as John Renwick discovers

keyboard, cassette and radio

Tomorrow's Technology Today

Studio Test

Yamaha's latest incursion into the portastudio market looks like something out of Alien. Does it sound out of this world too? Richard Walmsley has a close encounter of the reviewing kind

Editing Packages

Tony Mills investigates the noiseless properties of your micro

A church, a portastudio, and a blue hippopotamus? Well, what do you expect from a band called Sam-I-Am?

David Pallant

A rack-mounted cassette multitracker for the home recordist.

Fostex XR-5 & XR-7

Stylish personal multitrackers

Korg Drums

Prolonging the percussive theme, a look at three very interesting products from Korg: Their value-for-money digital Super Percussion and Super Drums rhythm machines, plus the KMS-30 MIDI Synchronizer.

Looking for a quick and easy way of getting good quality guitar sounds down on tape? Well, you can stop searching because Ian Gilby has the solution...

The first part of a new series on recording and signal processing. This month we look at a few simple ways of making a vocal part sound more interesting.

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