Steve Vai returns with new song Little Pretty, announces album Inviolate
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Gretsch gets funky on a Gretsch hollowbody for his new comeback single
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Sennheiser’s new HD 400 Pro studio headphones promise to help you create “outstanding audio mixes”
Can they really replicate the experience of using studio monitors, though?
Tom Morello gets his first ever signature overdrive pedal with MXR POWER 50
“If you want to have the sound that has been on those records, you don’t need to find an amp and speaker cabinet from 1988"
Waves' massive Cyber Monday sale has been extended - again! Save up to $3,724 off and bag free plugins
Waves continues to bring massive savings, plus the more you buy the more you get for free!
Electro-Harmonix adds the Q-Tron Envelope Controlled Filter to its Nano range of effects pedals
Get funky for less
Nile Rodgers swaps the Hitmaker for a hot water bottle as he reads you a Spatial Audio bedtime story on Apple Music
Ah, freak out! Le freak, c'est sleep
Rhodes is now allowing everyone to order their dream MK8 electric piano (if they can afford it)
Spec up the electric piano of your dreams, then wince at the price
Bono says the guitar on The Fly is "the sound of Edge's brain"
The Edge also explains how Madchester, Nine Inch Nails and KMFDM all fed into U2's sonic reinvention on Achtung Baby
Taylor Swift responds to Billy Joel comparing her to The Beatles: “that broke my brain”
Joel also compared Adele to Barbra Streisand
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Not a reissue but a riff on an overlooked model from the Gibson archives, with mini-humbuckers putting a new accent on that classic voice
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An analogue flanger with a typically imaginative set of features from the US stompbox specialists
