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Colin Campsie & George McFarlane

Chas de Whalley chats to Colin Campsie and George McFarlane, aka The Quick

Demo Tape Discipline

the power behind the button

Mixer front-ends for on-the-road musicians.

The Session

Part 7: David Mellor puts a typical band into a typical studio and looks at the various stages of recording, from initial planning up to instrumental overdubs.

Frankfurt 86

The Frankfurt show seen from a diagonal position

Mark Fishlock expounds.

Studio Equipment - Part Two

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

The MT Software Sequencer Buyer's Bible

The only guide you'll ever need

Sample sultan Wilf Smarties reports on the latest sample CDs.

Tanrak System

Ian Waugh concludes our appraisal of Tantek's budget modular FX system, and reveals there's plenty more to come in the near future.

Mixers

In this month's article we take a look at the most central piece of equipment in any recording studio; the mixer.

Yamaha SY99 Sample Disks

All the new stuff, including a special feature on the soon-come Stepp digital guitar.

News from America compiled by Simon Braund

Calum Malcolm: Going to Caledonia

Zsa Zsa

Zsa Zsa defected from Hungary to Britain with very little knowledge of English. Now she has her own home studio in London, complete with Greengate sampler.

Despite his Barclay James Harvest and Jim Diamond connections, we let Chas De Whalley speak to Pip Williams. We should have known better.

DJ Mixers

A three-way test of DJ mixers

If you saw an awkward figure stumbling between the stacks, that was Jim Betteridge

Mixing Desk

Not quite a desk in a million - studio owner Gareth Stuart gets to grips with one of TAC's 73 possible variations in their Scorpion mixer range, the 16-8-2+16.

Oasis On Stage

Engineer Jim Ebdon shares some secrets about getting a heavy live sound, and Andrew Levy explains the band’s approach to recording

What makes one recording engineer better than another, and how can you improve your recording engineering skills? In this introduction to a new series on recording techniques, David Mellor outlines an engineer's role in the studio, and explains why a good engineer is so important.