The Wool Hall

If you earn a fortune in royalties from record sales and you want your own recording studio, what do you do? If you're Tears For Fears, you build The Wool Hall. Paul Tingen reports.

A glimpse of the equipment you could well be buying in the forthcoming year

Mr Bassman, boom boom, thwack thwack, talks exclusively, dang dang, chacker chacker, to Making Music, thock thock, thwackadang

It's no stay-at-home

the birth of loud

Secrets of samples and songs

The Camden Cowboys are back with a fresh outlook and a new IP on the way. Jonathan James investigates

on playing live, major labels and the prospect of being famous

A step-by-step guide to the workings of a typical mixing console.

As Britain’s brightest electro-poppers climb back up the charts against all the odds, Tim Goodyer talks to Larry Steinbachek about beat, music composition on a QX1, and facing the world with a new voice.

Face to face with Hue - or is it Cry?

Rapino Brothers

Kylie and Take That’s remixers talk technique

squeezing the most information from 'Crush', track by track through the new album

Fashion

This successful Reggae band discuss the recording of 'Labour Of Love' and their new studio.

A complete history of record production accompanied by quotations and anecdotes from no fewer than 18 of the world's leading producers.

The how of the Banshees, transcribed by Richard Walmsley

The pick of 1983's equipment releases.

From the humblest of 4-track cassette recorders to the might of 48-track digital, multitrack is the technique used for 99.9% of all commercial recordings. David Mellor looks at the background to this powerful tool and wonders how we ever managed without it.

Music Synthesiser

The appliance of SYience

Hendrix rises again - thanks to two musicians, a helpful bureaucrat, and a rack-full of Akais

Recording 99.9F°

A new slant on production for Suzanne's latest album, 99.9F°.

Nobody has advanced the application of technology in music more than Peter Gabriel. His pioneering use of the Fairlight CMI helped popularise that instrument and give credence to sampling as a creative recording practice. Yet his music has never fallen prey to the technology trap - his latest album So remains a soulful collection of songs heavily reliant on technology but applied with subtlety. Ray Hammond talks to the great man about the album, new technology, Otis Redding, and his role as musician.

One of the most successful, certainly the most consistent, of Britain's electronic musicians, Gary Numan has succeeded in taking his eclectic and compelling music into the mass market. Gary talks of his songwriting and recording techniques, his past career, and what he plans for the future