Studio Equipment - Part Two

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

FX tutorial

More top effects tips from Mr D

MIDI & Multitrack

Part 10: David Mellor looks at ways of getting the best of both worlds by combining a MIDI system with a multitrack tape recorder.

What to do to get tip-top tapes from our master of the mastering, Steve Toke

cassettes, and how to avoid going around in circles

hear no evil, speak no evil, C-no60... which cassette?

You can always get more out of your equipment if you know more about it. David Mellor begins a new series that explores the innermost workings of various studio devices. This month: the Tape Recorder.

The good, the bad and the ugly

Direct-to-disk PC recording system

It's getting closer... the home 8-track, gone digital.

Studio Test

Could this be the Megaportastudio. Jim Betteridge went forth and recorded

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

Personal Multitracker

The intrepid Nicholas Rowland continues his search for the ultimate in personal multitrackers; armed only with a blank cassette and a bedroom's worth of gear, he tackles Tascam's latest budget baby.

J.L. Cooper PPS-1

Looking for an alternative means of syncing MIDI instruments to tape? David Mellor tries out a low-cost solution from J.L. Cooper Electronics - the PPS-1.

Roland Orzabal picks over the Tears' gear

Personal Multitrack Recorder

Built-in digital reverb and three - yes, three - speeds are just some of the facilities hiding inside this new cassette multitracker.

As well as being famous for the size of his record collection, DJ Mark is currently one of the major forces in hip hop sampling. The 45 King tells Simon Trask about the biters and the bitten.

In spite of The Turtles' attempts to sue them to death, De La Soul is Dead remains simply the title of their second long player. Mark van Schaick talks samples and success with Maseo.

Muse & Steinberg software.

Olivier Behzadi's Fostex A8-based studio.

Gerry Taylor

Your Paul Hardcastle Aspirations!

Steve Howell takes up his razor blade once again and explains the basis for extended remixes.

Torch Song; aspiring musical and studio entrepreneurs

Reel-to-reel rabbit from the tittering typewriter of Adrian Deevoy

From Schoolhouse To Multitrack

Software for the Atari Falcon

From D2D2U - tapeless recording on the Falcon