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- September 17
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- Jackson and Chris Broderick put a fun, signature twist on the Pro Series Soloist
- Watch Jason Richardson and Nick DePirro demo John Petrucci's spectacular eight-string Majesty
- Superbooth 2021: the best synths, drum machines, modular gear and out-there oddities
- How to set up an electronic drum set
- Line 6 is offering $500 of recording software completely free when you purchase a Helix multi-effects unit
- Kirk Hammett pays tribute to Slayer and says Kerry King “doesn‘t get enough credit as a rhythm guitar player“
- Play Space Oddity with the new limited-edition Bowie Stylophone
- Spiritbox guitarist Mike Stringer’s 13 tips for using guitar plugins
- James Hurr's top 5 house production tips
- Superbooth 2021: Cherry Audio announces Jupiter-4 emulation, Mercury-4
- September 16
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- Emerald Guitars' new Virtuo is an electric / acoustic hybrid
- 4 ways to glitch out your productions
- Essential piano accessories: everything you need to get started playing the piano
- Can you produce music using Bluetooth headphones?
- Superbooth 2021: the coolest and craziest sights from the show floor
- On our radar: Adna
- Best electronic drum sets 2021: top picks for every playing level and budget
- "We were all inspired" – Dream Theater members talk new album and how Scenes From A Memory influenced it
- “WTF?!”: Did David Guetta just leak a new Cableguys ShaperBox VST plugin?
- AKG’s Ara is its most affordable USB condenser microphone yet
- Boss breaks cover with IR-200 Amp & IR Cabinet and SY-200 Synthesizer pedals
- Ashibah: 5 things I've learned about music production
- Superbooth 2021: Sucofunk is an open-source “beatmaker’s sketchbook” that you can build yourself
- September 15
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- Yamaha unveils DTX8 and DTX10 wood-shell electronic drum sets
- Your first blues guitar lesson: essential chords, techniques, scales and players
- Shawn Mendes covers Billie Eilish on acoustic and electric guitars with some surprising choices
- Kanye West invited a sixth-grade piano player to perform with him at a Donda listening party
- David Guetta: "I spend a lot of time with synths"
- VCV Rack 2.0 will offer VST plugin support, but not in the free version
- Superbooth 2021: UDO’s Super 6 Desktop is a new compact synth that looks like it’s missing a keyboard
- Mackie MP220 review
- Orange keeps the solid state gigging amp dream alive with the Super Crush 100
- Superbooth 2021 is go: the best new synths, Eurorack and other music tech gear
- Superbooth 2021: Erica Synths’ Perkons percussion synth promises to “strike your ears like the skies breaking apart”
- The Track: James Hurr on the making of Love Together
- Superbooth 2021: PWM’s Malevolent could be the affordable analogue keyboard synth that gets you into the modular game
- Todd Rundgren: "I have three albums' worth of Kanye stems on my computer"
- September 14
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- The iPhone 13 is here, but it’s Apple’s new iPad and iPad mini that music producers should care about
- Fender joins TikTok
- Superbooth 2021: Moog’s new Sound Studio is a monster semi-modular synth playground
- Superbooth 2021: Arturia’s Ensoniq-inspired SQ80 V could be your new favourite ‘80s synth plugin
- Best headphones for drummers 2021: sound isolation for the studio, rehearsal room and stage
- Superbooth 2021: Waldorf returns to its wavetable roots with the Microwave-inspired M hybrid synth
- 15 questions with Paul Oakenfold: "There are no production tricks, it’s all about feeling for me"
- Save pedalboard space (and your tone) with Keeley Electronics' Compressor Mini
- Cort refreshes Artisan B4 and B5 Element bass guitars with updated hardware and rounded ash-topped mahogany body
- Fender launches Player Plus Series, debuting dazzling new finishes and pro-quality specs
- Studio hacks: 10 bullet-proof tactics for turning loops into finished tracks
- 5 guitar tricks you can learn from Free's Paul Kossoff
- Superbooth 2021: The cassette tape comes to Eurorack with Error Instruments’ throwback new Loopman module
- September 13
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- Kim Thayil explains how buying a Guild S-100 as a teenager influenced Soundgarden's sound
- Watch Foo Fighters tear through a three-song medley and pay tribute to Charlie Watts at the MTV Video Music Awards
- Iron Maiden's Nicko McBrain reveals that he offered to quit after a live mistake
- Mattel launches Barbie Music Producer doll in a bid to inspire more girls to explore a future in the industry
- Superbooth 2021: Dreadbox’s Nymphes analogue polysynth is “dedicated to all abused and oppressed women”
- "You can’t have a Plan B in this business and expect to be successful" – Dave Mustaine's top 5 tips for guitarists
- Get your waveforms in Shape with Audec’s free VST/AU plugin
- Yamaha Guitalele GL-1 review
- may.kit is a new musical social media platform for people who can’t make music
- Audioshake says that its AI-powered stem separation technology is “the best in the industry”
- Metallica respond to 1-star Amazon reviews of The Black Album
- Man playing Red Hot Chili Peppers’ Can’t Stop riff using actual chili peppers gets a spicy reception
- Steinberg SpectraLayers Pro 8
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- September 10
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- Solar Guitars teams up with Patrik Jensen for a none-more-metal signature model, the E1.6Jensen MKII
- The 9 best acoustic guitars for beginners 2021: top beginner acoustic guitars
- Check out the title track from Jerry Cantrell's forthcoming solo album, Brighten
- Antares brings two classic vocal effects together as it introduces the Auto-Tune Vocodist plugin
- Steve Jordan lifts the lid on his favourite cymbals in new Paiste interview
- Jean-Michel Jarre: "I always considered stereo to be a fake process, created in the ‘30s, just to produce a sense of space"
- Mastodon return with new single Pushing The Tides, and announce epic double album Hushed And Grim
- Fairfield Circuitry's ferocious new ~900 Fuzz “will slap the ice cream cone right out of your hand“
- Keyboard legend Tony Kaye: “I get asked if I left Yes because of my disdain for the ‘new’ electronic gear - the Moog and the Mellotron - and there’s a lot of truth in that”
- Tama announces Stewart Copeland 40th Anniversary Signature Snare
- Lindsey Buckingham likens Stevie Nicks to Donald Trump
- Apple is using Shazam to identify and pay rights holders within DJ mixes on Apple Music
- KV331 SynthMaster 2 iOS
- September 9
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- 5 easy ways to liven up your guitar chords
- Phil Collins offers health update ahead of Genesis reunion tour: “I can barely hold a stick”
- Are Harley Benton's €39 LightCases the guitar protection you've been waiting for?
- Focusrite Clarett+ USB audio interfaces announced: is this “premium” range ageing like a fine wine?
- Haim show you their favourite vintage gear in a studio tour
- Noel Gallagher admits he doesn’t know why Oasis did not play Rock 'n' Roll Star at Knebworth
- Eric Clapton announces new album The Lady In The Balcony: Lockdown Sessions
- Superbooth 2021: ASM’s Hydrasynth Explorer is a cuter, more compact version of the wave-morphing synth, and there's a 73-note Deluxe model, too
- John Mayer: “I’ve never seen more people get more out of playing electric guitar than I have this past year”
- Cherry Audio looks like it’s heading for Jupiter for its next classic synth plugin
- The Edge on recording U2's Love Is Blindness: "I poured everything into this guitar solo… I was in tears"
- Reason Studios Reason 12
- Celebrate 909 day with the greatest Roland TR-909 moments ever
- Astronaut Chris Sembroksi is taking a Martin ukulele into space
- Denise is offering you a free VST bitcrushing plugin, and a big brother that bites even harder
- Hear Rodrigo y Gabriela’s jaw-dropping acoustic cover of Metallica’s The Struggle Within
- Moog’s Model 15 synth now runs as a VST plugin, meaning that Ableton Live owners can use it, too
- Watch Steve Vai tell the funny story of when he was taught guitar by a child
- Caelum Audio Beef
- Gretsch G2655-P90 Streamliner Center Block Jr
- September 8
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- 3 Richie Kotzen-style guitar licks to learn
- The 2022 Winter NAMM Show has been postponed to June
- Stone Sour / The L.I.F.E Project guitarist Josh Rand: Why I love my… 2002 LA Custom Shop Ibanez RG
- Stevie Wonder’s I Just Called To Say I Love You was number 1 on this day in 1984, so why do so many fans hate it?
- Klon KTR pedals will be made with new components, Bill Finnegan confirms
- Revisit Avicii in the studio, as Google marks his 32nd birthday with a Doodle that celebrates his life in music
- Nektar SE25 review
- Studio hacks: 9 inspiring tricks for hardware sequencing
- Eddie Vedder joined by Red Hot Chili Peppers members and Andrew Watt on new single Long Way
- Baby Audio Smooth Operator
- Cort Core-OC Series
- Gibson 1958 reissue Korina Flying V and Explorer prices confirmed
- Mackie EM-USB review
- Unfiltered Audio’s LO-FI-AF is a thoroughly degrading plugin that can add vinyl, cassette, CD and MP3-style audio artifacts
- ADDAC 112 VC Looper & Granular Processor
- Korg microKEY2 Air-25 review
- Block 'n' roll: Lego Ideas Fender Stratocaster and amp released
- AIAIAI TMA-2 Series headphones
- Superbooth 2021: You can now turn your Prophet-5 synth into a Prophet-10
- September 7
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- Samantha Fish: “I did away with pedals... It made me a better guitar player. I was using them as a crutch rather than finding good tone in my hands“
- 5 crazy Keith Moon moments
- Audient iD14 MkII
- Origin Effects RD Compact Hot Rod
- Intellijel Metropolix
- Synth-pop producer Little Boots is going to be playing keyboards for the Abba Voyage live shows
- Alesis Elevate 5 MKII review
- PreSonus Eris E3.5 review
- KRK Rokit RP5 G4 review
- AKG Lyra review
- Mogwai's Stuart Braithwaite calls Eric Clapton a “complete joker” for anti-vaccine stance
- Apogee HypeMic review
- The best DAWs 2021: the best digital audio workstations for PC and Mac
- Watch: Lindsey Buckingham perform classic Fleetwood Mac tracks live and debut solo material onstage
- DAW basics: How to program a chord progression and synth melody in GarageBand
- Ibanez, Laney and Digbeth all sign up for The Guitar Showcase 2021
- Can you use your modular rig as a guitar synth?
- September 6
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- The Waves Labor Day sale is here: buy any plugin, get another for free!
- Molchat Doma: "I use FL Studio 10 – yes, I’m old-fashioned!"
- Superbooth 2021: Dreadbox teases Nymphes, which appears to be a new analogue polysynth
- Superbooth 2021: Waldorf prepares to ‘welcome back an old friend’, so is a new synth in the offing?
- Studio hacks: 8 easy ways to streamline your studio
- Jordan Rudess shows you how he creates Dream Theater’s ‘snarling pig’ synth sound on his Korg Kronos
- September 3
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- Labor Day Deals 2021: Check out the 13 best musical instruments and equipment on sale now with up to 30% off!
- 5 quick lead guitar tricks to learn
- Joe Bonamassa: “I can play a Fender amp and a Fender guitar, it sounds like me. I can play a Gibson amp and a Gibson guitar. It sounds like me. Moving the needle isn’t happening anymore“
- Get Freaky: free Native Instruments plugin with any purchase at Plugin Boutique
- Headphones vs studio monitors: which is better for mixing?
- All Waves reverb, distortion and delay plugins are just $29.99 for Labor Day weekend
- 9 quick ways to improve your mix
- Gibson partners with Rally on an investment platform allowing players to buy stock in rare and unique guitars
- The Edge tells Tom Morello about the time U2 pretended a Ramones song was theirs to get on Irish television
- Roland sets the analogue circuits to 1985 with TR-707 and TR-727 drum machine plugins
- Gibson unveils an exquisite LG-2 Western signature acoustic guitar for Nathaniel Rateliff
- IK Multimedia’s Group Buy promotion just hit a new milestone - buy 1 plugin, get 11 free!
- Nembrini Audio welcomes you to its BG Extasy Boutique – a new plugin for guitarists with taste for Bogner amps
- ROLI goes into administration; CEO Roland Lamb launches new music tech company, Luminary
- The best digital pianos in 2021 for any budget
- DJ Seinfeld: "The debate is not whether lo-fi’s good or bad, but if that raw quality can bring something to a track"
- September 2
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- Cory Wong and Dirty Loops join forces again for Michael Jackson Thriller cover
- Abba announce new album, Voyage, release two new songs and confirm avatar concert plans
- Best bass amps 2021: 13 top choice amplification options for bassists
- “I'm not sure if I love this album because I like the album, or because we as Nigerians all love this album – Johnny Drille on Burna Boy and the 10 records that changed his life
- Fender, Gibson, Yamaha, Charvel, IK Multimedia, Jackson, Line 6 and more confirmed for The Guitar Showcase 2021
- The best Alesis Nitro Mesh kit deals in September 2021: save big on our number one budget electronic drum set
- The best Casio Privia PX-770 deals in September 2021: bag a great digital piano deal today
- The best Yamaha Piaggero NP-12 deals in September 2021: learn to play with a compact keyboard bargain
- The Apple MacBook Pro M1 deals for September 2021: save up to $150/£169 on a slick music production laptop
- Songwriting basics: how to pep up your progressions by borrowing chords from parallel keys
- Rick Rubin on Red Hot Chili Peppers: "I went to the first rehearsal after John rejoined the band, and it made me cry"
- Oasis releases previously unseen clip of Live Forever from Knebworth
- Windows 11 is being released on 5 October, but will your music production PC be able to run it?
- Pioneer Pro Audio sends a speaker into space in a bid to banish the phrase “You’re on mute”
- 6 home studio construction hacks
- Bad Contact is a free VST plugin that makes your synths sound like they’re broken
- Animals As Leaders return in stunning form on new song and video Monomyth
- A practice gamechanger for bassists? Boss reveals Waza-Air Bass headphone amp
- Japanese Breakfast: "I realised that I never want to do this DIY shit again, I’ve hit the ceiling with that"
- September 1
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- Positive Grid celebrates its 10th anniversary with money off the Spark amp and the return of the Spark Pearl
- How to get student discount on MacBook Pros and iPads for music making
- How to transform the sound of your studio with acoustic treatment
- The Ibanez AZ gets affordable at $299 with the new Essentials line
- Klon designer Bill Finnegan to launch new YouTube live stream series and hints at new pedal production
- LoneLady: "I was given a synth by Brian Eno. It’s a very crisp and weird digital-sounding beast"
- Lars Ulrich's sons have formed a band
- New Rhodes electric piano confirmed: the MK8 is coming soon
- Reason 12 released with a new Combinator, the Mimic sampler and HD graphics
- Learn 3 great guitar skills for jamming
- Johnny Marr rocks a 9-pickup Strat in the video for new song Spirit Power And Soul
- Polyend Tracker’s new sequencing mode means it’s now for people who don’t like trackers, too
- Fender demos new Squier Paranormal guitars and basses
- The beginners guide to: hardcore
- Paul Reed Smith shows you how to get Jimi Hendrix's Machine Gun tone
