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There are loads of handy gadgets out there to make a musician's life more fun, and every one of them is more desirable than socks or aftershave. Derek Johnson & Debbie Poyser present you with a few ideas...
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There are loads of handy gadgets out there to make a musician's life more fun, and every one of them is more desirable than socks or aftershave. Derek Johnson & Debbie Poyser present you with a few ideas...
In contemporary music terms, the Korg Wavestation is verging on the antique, yet it still has the capacity to surprise and...
If you saw our review of the Voyager 1 Beat Extractor in the Feb '98 issue, you'll already know what to expect from the Micro...
Paul White risks serious wear and tear to his patch-seletion finger by trying out the whole set of Roland JV-series Expansion Cards.
Computers may have revolutionised home recording, but for the recording guitarist who prefers the sound of single coil pickups, they have taken the age-old problem of radiated-field noise to a new level. Dave Lockwood checks out a new generation fo pickups promising a real solution without compromising the classic sound.
Digidesign's new interface allows Pro Tools users to transfer data to and from ADAT-compatible devices. Mike Collins finds out if it's a Bridge too far...
One of the most useful things any audio engineer can carry around is a test disc to check the alignment of equipment, and to...
If you need to add a MIDI interface to a Mac, it has to be external — there is no Mac equivalent of a Soundblaster 16...
If you've ever read a hi‑fi magazine, you'll have seen advertisements for cables that cost more than the gear they are...
Volume Seven in the Twiddly Bits series is a real mixed bag of performance data, loops, grooves and riffs that come under the...
Over the last fifteen years or so, we have probably all gathered some awareness of the workings of digital audio systems...
DI boxes are essential pieces of studio kit, but they don't all do the same job. For DI'ing an electric guitar or bass that...
Paul White switches on to a box which provides a dash of extra source for the smaller mixing desk.
As studio systems become more complex, analogue signal degradation caused by poor signal connections becomes a serious problem...
Boundary Effect microphones have been around for some time now, and the standard PZMs (Pressure Zone Microphones) use piezo...
As CD‑writers become more popular, so the need to label one‑off CDs more professionally grows, and a number of...
Keyfax's Twiddly Bits soundware has a very respectable track record in the market of producing MIDI files for general...
Paul White tries a simple but useful digital switching system that can be used with s/PDIF or ADAT-format signals.
It's a small curiously-shaped shiny chrome box with just six buttons and no LCD screen, and it claims to be the future of DJ-ing. Intrigued? Paul Farrer goes on a voyage of discovery...
Considering that the Wavestation first emerged in 1990, it's aged remarkably gracefully and, relative to some of its...