Cassette Multitracking Guide

A complete idiot's guide to buying a four-track cassette recorder, with hints on what features to look for, and a rundown of some of the most popular machines.

explains Ambisonic recording (3D sound)

The multitrack cassette recorder provides an excellent platform for learning the essential skills of multitrack recording. David Mellor explains how to get the best out of them.

Quiet rehearsals for noisy neighbours

Richard Walmsley takes a ride with BSA down the R'n'B route and finds out how a green band avoid the Blues

Tape Machine Line-Up

Richard Dean looks at tape machine line-up.

The First Single

and sensible use of mixing time

We conclude our series on synchronisation by looking at Time Code and its applications in the video and music industries. Film editor Richard Atherton is your guide.

For A Few Dollars More...

What price a reputation? The Revox brand name is well established and very well respected, but the new model C278 8-track costs a lot more than the Fostex and Tascam equivalents. David Mellor asks whether it is worth the extra.

Steinberg 'Twelve' MIDI Recorder

Steinberg have divided Pro24 roughly in half and have arrived at what may well turn out to be the best answer for many people starting out, namely a 'new' low-priced 12-track sequencer called Twelve. David Pickering Pick investigates.

If you're already running a MIDI studio on a budget and want to add a handful of tape tracks, the Vestax MR200 could be the answer. Nigel Lord checks out a cassette multitracker that won't cost you much more than £300.

The Workhouse Studios

The Workhouse schows Schwartz itsch schuperschtudios

You don't know his name but you'll have heard his refrains. Composer Paul Bliss writes hits for the best of 'em using a UMI-2B sequencer package and several synthesizers. Ralph Denyer finds out how.

Dryden Hawkins and Zeb Yek

Richard Walmsley in Maida Vale. Sound developments in sculpture

Des Carson at Riverside Studio.

programmer and composer

Boogie Down Productions

music with a message from KRS-One

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