Accessories / Gadgets

Can you trust your equipment? What will you do if it lets you down? David Mellor offers advice.

Philip Rees are known for their distinctive red and black MIDI Thru and Merge boxes, which have found homes in many MIDI studios. Now they've turned their attention to tape sync, with the TS1. Derek Johnson checks it out.

Debbie Poyser checks out Dan Kimpel's self-motivaing guide to promoting yourself.

Paul White delves into the exciting depths of RAboc's new DI Box.

Paul White explains the APRS tape labelling system and offers a few hints of his own on tape care.

Paul White checks out the new MIDI switch controller from Rolls.

Paul White gets a look at a versatile modular wall box with up to 32 inputs.

Following his article on the unconventional use of signal processors as mix automation equipment in out July issue, Paul Ward takes a general look at using equipment in ways that probably never occurred to the designers...

Derek Johnson investigates an affordable MIDI exapnder for the Atari ST.

Paul White's looking at a gadget to improve impedance mismatch.

Paul White investigates the capabilities for music production of the Power Master.

This month the SOS team checks out an Analogic hard drive.

This month the SOS team checks out the game-cum-documentary of Xplora.

Martin Russ talks you through what to do when you've just bought a new piece of hi-tech gear.

Exploring Twiddly Bits, a collection of musical fills, riffs and embellishments played by leading session musicians and stored in MIDI file format.

Exploring the Milli Keyboard interface.

A chip update is an easy way to gain new features for your studio gear - but if you don't install the replacement correctly, you could end up with anything from temporary frustration to a massive repair bill. Craig Anderton provides a step-by-step guide.

All too often we don't really pay much attention to the way our equipment looks until we come to sell it — but as Paul White shows, it only takes a few minutes of TLC to give your gear a complete facelift.

This month, Paul White checks out the 4th edition of Aspen Pitman's (Groove Tubes) popular Tube Amp Book.

Just when it seems that you don't have the equipment to do a job, you might find that your hi-fi, combined with a little ingenuity, solves the problem. Paul White explains...

As SOS enters its second century, we look back over the past 100 great issues and chart the changing face of hi-tech music.