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How To Search

This version of the SOS search engine interrogates only the Title, Subtitle, Summary and Keyword fields of our database records, not the actual content of each article.

Specify at least one thing to search on, using the drop-down menus to select Month/Year, or type your search text into the top Keyword box. Click the [Search Articles] button.
Month = January with Year = 1995 displays the full Contents lists of the January 1995 magazine.
Click the RESET SEARCH link to clear out previously-entered text/selections and begin your New search.
Bookmark your favourite searches to build up your own reference library of useful SOS article links.

Using the CATEGORY SELECTOR:
This allows you to browse the list of Subjects/Topics in a popup menu which appears when you move your cursor over the dark grey CATEGORY SELECTOR box.

To find ALL Mixer reviews SOS has ever published, choose Reviews and Mixer using the CATEGORY SELECTOR.
To find only Tascam Mixer reviews, choose Reviews and Mixer, then type Tascam into the Keyword box and click the Search button.
To find all our Cubase Notes articles from 2003, for example, choose Techniques, Cubase Notes and Year = 2003.

How to use the KEYWORD box:
Each word is treated individually. To search for a phrase, put double quotes around it, eg. "Akai sampler".

If Find all words is checked, entering Triton workstation would find articles containing both Triton AND workstation.
With Find any words checked, entering Triton workstation finds any article containing EITHER Triton OR workstation — a huge list!
Combinations of part/whole words and/or phrases may be used, but narrow down choices for optimum results. For example, typing "building a studio" in quotes generates no results, but building studio [Find all words] delivers useful results.
Typing 1994 into the Query box will not find the 1994 articles, but setting YEAR = 1994 will work.

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