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November 30
- John Petrucci reveals how latest Dream Theater album was inspired by Images And Words and Scenes From A Memory
- Slate Digital promises to go beyond Ableton Live’s OTT preset with the MO-TT dynamics plugin
- Daredevil rolls out streamlined Bootleg Dirty Delay Volume 2, offering gain control for adding texture to your repeats
- The Breakdown: Danny Byrd on how he made the bassline for Selecta ft. D Double E
- Sheeran By Lowden unveils the ‘Equals Edition’ Ed Sheeran signature acoustic
- The 3 best new snare drums of 2021, as decided by you
- The 3 best new cymbal ranges of 2021, as decided by you
- MachineRoom 204D Dual VCF review
- Watch Sarah Lipstate perform Twin Peaks theme on solo guitar
- The 3 best new drum kits of 2021, as decided by you
- The 3 best new electronic drum kits of 2021, as decided by you
- BPB Dirty Spring is a free spring reverb plugin with added bitcrushing bite
- 5 pro compression techniques to take your sound to another level
- Mas Effects promises extreme high-gain with “a touch of class” from its new Sona Fuzz
November 29
- Cyber Monday electronic drum set deals: the 5 best e-kits you'll find on sale this Cyber Weekend
- Plugin Boutique are offering up to 70% off Soundtoys plugins this Cyber Monday
- Nord Piano 5 73 gets a big price cut at Thomann: make a large cyber saving on this awesome stage piano
- Acoustic guitarists: buy this and transform your sound
- Our 5 favourite effects pedal deals on Thomann right now
- Why buy a 303 plugin when Behringer’s hardware clone of Roland’s classic Bass Line synth is as cheap as this?
- Go wireless with your instrument for less: Harley Benton's AirBorne 2.4Ghz is reduced
- Waves goes old-school for Cyber Monday with new vinyl-flavoured Retro Fi plugin
- The TC Electronic Rat-style Grand Magus distortion pedal is now under €/£20!
November 28
- Get one of four awesome plugins FREE at Plugin Boutique with any purchase this Cyber Monday
- How to watch The Beatles Get Back documentary online now and why Paul McCartney was so affected by seeing it
- Waves' Lofi Space free plugin is still available as we head into Cyber Monday
- About Musicradar.com: who we are, what we do and how to contact us
- Focusrite Clarett+ 2Pre review
November 27
- Get Fender Play free for 3 months, or save 50% off a 12-month subscription this Black Friday - still up for grabs
- Whole lotta discount: save over £6,000 on the Masterbuilt replica Fender Jimmy Page Mirror Telecaster
- Take your sound to another level with £100 off the Universal Audio Apollo Twin X Duo Heritage Edition
- Massive savings on Krotos plugins at Plugin Boutique - it's a sound designers' delight
- Save 10% on the Moog Subharmonicon in Thomann's Cyber Weekend sale
- You can still save an astonishing 96% on iZotope holiday plugin bundles at Sweetwater - pay as little as $49
- 512 Audio Limelight review
- reFX Nexus 4 plugin released: the much-loved ROMpler gets a Black Friday boost
- Black Friday Apple deal: Get AirPods Pro at their lowest price ever
- Waves’ Platinum bundle drops to crazy low price in this Black Friday-beating deal
November 26
- Pick up the Eventide Ultra Essentials bundle for just £83
- Universal Audio UAFX Starlight Echo Station delay pedal: save £44
- Black Friday is the time to learn a new instrument with up to 50% off online music lessons
- Arturia’s V Collection now offers native support for Apple M1 Macs, and it’s yours for just €299
- Save big on Ableton Live 11 bundles at Thomann this Black Friday
- Red Witch unveils the Opia Fuzz and Xenia Overdrive Engine
- Save up to $270 off Behringer synths in Sweetwater's massive Black Friday sale
- Tony Iommi reveals he wrote a song for Ozzy Osbourne’s forthcoming solo album
- Save 50% off a one-year subscription to Pro Tools Ultimate in their Black Friday sale
- ESP unveils non-more-metal LTD signature guitar for Goatwhore’s Sammy Duet, updates Alan Ashby and Javier Reyes models
- The Edge and producer Bob Ezrin team up for massive charity gear auction, featuring guitars from U2, Paul McCartney, Lou Reed, Slash and more
- "Now anything goes" – Paul McCartney looks back on the Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's era
- Simon Neil and Gone Fishing Effects are bringing back his BOOOOOM / BLAST signature overdrive/fuzz pedal
- Eventide's dot9 family - the evolution from legendary rackmount hardware to compact pedals
- Erica Synths Matrix Mixer review
November 25
- Dead uncle skeleton guitar creator pays homage to Metallica's Lars Ulrich with a toilet sculpture
- Slash recalls his session work playing for Michael Jackson and Bob Dylan
- Black Friday Ukulele deal: All Ukutune ukes now half price
- Black Sabbath legend Tony Iommi releases first new music in 8 years for new signature perfume
- 5 songs guitarists need to hear by… Aerosmith (that aren't Walk This Way)
- "I get so sick of people trying to change things without thinking of the long-term consequences” – Brian May blasts the Brit Awards’ decision to switch to gender neutral categories
- Bitwig releases Bitwig Studio 4.1 with 8 new Note FX and new colour options
- Make music at 112bpm if you want to get on Spotify study playlists, suggests new research
- Nathan Fake: "Drums are usually my starting point. Despite my music being quite melodic, I've always been obsessed with electronic drums and abstract percussion"
- "I'm not sure I'm gonna like this, Peter" - Paul McCartney reveals his initial doubts about the new Beatles Get Back film
- Fender Noventa Series review
November 24
- Tape Leaders shines a light on the unseen pioneers of British electronic music
- Sknote’s MetaVocals puts automatic tuning, harmonising and vocoding in a $30 plugin
- Jacob Collier: "I think that unless music is fundamentally simple, it doesn't really move anyone"
- Software compressors vs hardware compressors... 10 of the best
- Save 50% on top music making mag subscriptions!
- The 10 best rock drummers in the world right now, as decided by you
- Ross From Friends is letting you download 50GB of the samples he created while producing his latest album
- Best in music tech 2021
- Cherry Audio releases ARP Quadra synth plugin: the ‘70s ‘unicorn’ gets its moment in the spotlight, and your DAW
- SampleRadar: 275 free resonance and feedback samples
- 5 songs guitarists need to hear by… Brian May
- Walrus Audio Polychrome review
November 23
- Watch Chad Smith give a rare performance using a double pedal at an NFL game
- Paul McCartney on John Lennon and George Harrison: "They're my fallen heroes"
- Gibson embraces the Dark side with new limited-edition Les Paul Studio and SG Standard
- Moog launches Animoog Z, an all-new version of the iOS synth that now runs on Mac, too, and is yours for free
- Could IK Multimedia’s Syntronik 2 be the only vintage synth plugin you need?
- D’Addario has all angles covered with the Nexxus 360 USB-rechargeable headstock tuner
- Eric Clapton’s 1968 ‘Derek and the Dominos’ Martin D-45 acoustic guitar sells at auction for $625,000
- Hotone unveils the feature-packed Ampero II Stomp digital amp modeller and multi-effects unit
- Browne Amplification Protein Dual Overdrive and T4 Fuzz review
- JHS Pedals expands its entry-level 3 Series, adding Hall Reverb, Flanger and Phaser to the $99 stompbox range
November 22
- Rick Astley says that the main reason he had powerful Macs in the studio in the ‘90s was so that everyone could play Doom
- Play Mario Duplantier's drum sounds from your electronic drum kit with MixWave!
- Ringo Starr teaches drumming and creative collaboration with new MasterClass video course
- Find out how Kali Audio has taken its LP-6 and LP-8 studio monitors to the next level
- Get creative with sidechaining with Oeksound's soothe2
- Classic album: Ursula 1000 on Kinda' Kinky
- Tool bassist Justin Chancellor has filmed a very special Christmas video for his new signature Dunlop Cry Baby Wah pedal
- Is Spotify about to launch a built-in karaoke feature that automatically reduces vocal levels in songs?
- What is the best new modular gear of 2021?
- Keinemusik: "In the end, everything should sound somehow live and organic. Distortion, noise, detuning - all this helps with that"
- Four Tet says that former record label Domino has removed three of his albums from digital services because of royalties dispute: “This is heartbreaking to me”
- Redbeard Effects Angry Rhubarb Paradynamic MKII review
- Sting on the Beatles: "They conquered the world with their own songs, and therefore gave permission to a younger generation to try the same thing"
- Adele convinces Spotify to remove the shuffle button from album pages: “our stories should be listened to as we intended”
- Steven Van Zandt: "The bands that grew up as dance bands had that extra energy, like The E Street Band, like The Beatles, like the Stones"
- Mastering The Mix’s RESO plugin makes resonance issues a thing of the past
November 21
- Epiphone Slash Collection Les Paul Standard review
November 20
- What is the best new modular gear of 2021?
- Solid State Logic Fusion Vintage Drive and Fusion Stereo Image review
November 19
- Antares Black Friday sale: 70% off Auto-Tune Access and much more
- How to unlock the potential of guitar expression pedals
- Sting looks back on The Police: "I'm a heavy metal singer but I have a little more melody"
- Taylor, Walt Disney Records and GuitarGuitar team up for epic prize draw
- Thomann’s epic Cyber Week sale has landed, promising up to 60% off music hardware and 80% off software
- Gretsch updates its Players Edition flagship hollowbody electrics with new FT67 Filter'Trons, fresh colours and more
- ‘Super-engineer’ Billy Hickey: “People get obsessed by the top of Ariana Grande’s voice and think there’s a lot of EQ shenanigans to get that, but that’s just her voice”
- What is the best new studio gear of 2021?
- On our radar: SpiritWorld
- The beginner's guide to compression
- The biggest selling amp of 2021 is also the smallest
- Apple is set to allow you to repair your M1 Mac, but will you be brave enough to do it?
- Steinberg Absolute 5 review
November 18
- The biggest-selling effects pedal of 2021 on Reverb is an unsung hero
- Twisted Sister's Jay Jay French on playing affordable guitars: "The neck has to be great, and if the neck is great, my attitude is, I'll figure the rest of it out if I have to"
- Get 50% off 250 plugins and bundles in the Native Instruments Black Friday sale
- sedatø: "David Bowie and Tony Visconti conducted the sessions. Their vibe — experience, expertise, genius, support, edge — raised the collective level for everyone there"
- Filter fans set to erupt as FabFilter launches the redesigned Volcano 3 plugin
- 10 reasons why the Roland SP-404 MKII could be the portable sampler you need in your life
- Sweep the fret, Johnny! Kramer Guitars reveals its Cobra Kai-inspired Baretta
- What is the best album production of 2021?
- We salute you: the guitar genius of Malcolm Young
- Roland Cloud Connect gives you a wireless way to install new sounds on your Jupiter-X or Xm synth from your phone
- "Jimi Hendrix has played that guitar, Rory Gallagher, Jeff Beck, George Harrison… I mean, the list goes on and on" – Kirk Hammett on owning Peter Green's legendary 'Greeny' 1959 Gibson Les Paul
- Steinberg Dorico for iPad review
- 5 underappreciated U2 songs guitarists need to hear by… The Edge
- Who is the best producer of 2021?
November 17
- The biggest-selling guitars of the year revealed by Reverb
- How to get funky with your James Brown-style rhythm guitar playing
- What is the best produced track of 2021?
- Build a virtual rig for half the price with up to 50% off BIAS software at Positive Grid
- Baby Audio’s Magic Dice is a free VST plugin that delivers endless spaced-out reverb/echo effects with a single click
- What is analogue warmth? Find out, and discover how to get that ‘vintage’ sound
- Perc: 5 things I've learned about music production
- Teenage Engineering’s OP-1 synth is Reverb’s best-selling music tech product of the year again, so what’s going on?
- Take your blues guitar playing to the next level with Scott McKeon's new MusicGurus online lessons
November 16
- Skunk Anansie guitarist Ace reviews IK Multimedia’s AmpliTube X-Gear series: “There are all these sounds that you’re just not hearing on other pedals”
- Epiphone goes punk with the Billie Joe Armstrong Signature Les Paul Junior
- Best keyboard stands: Our picks for home, studio and stage, whatever your budget
- Save 50% on Arturia’s V Collection 8, FX Collection 2 and Pigments 3 for Black Friday
- Fender unveils Player Series Acoustasonic Telecaster, a more affordable version of its groundbreaking acoustic electric guitar
- Issue 377 of Future Music is on sale now
- The best VST synth plugin bundles 2021: which is the best soft synth collection for you?
- Glenn Hughes joins the Ashdown Engineering artist lineup
- Best studio desks 2024: budget-spanning options for organising your recording studio space
- ESP Guitars showroom opened in Berlin
- Waves is letting you have an official SSL console channel strip plugin for less than $40
- Positive Grid is launching a wireless foot controller for Spark
- Alan Fitzpatrick's Career in Gear: "In terms of studio tools I couldn’t live without; Reason has got to have a mention. My discography wouldn’t be the same without it"
- Best in guitars 2021
- What is the best new MIDI controller or sequencer of 2021?
November 15
- Learn 8 essential blues guitar lead tricks
- "Maybe we should learn a few songs first" – watch the stunning first clip from The Beatles: Get Back documentary
- Richie Sambora on his role in Bon Jovi: "That was part of my deal, to shut the f***k up"
- Guitar lesson: Make jamming easier with this 12-bar blues chord generator
- Peter Capaldi on a guitar-playing Dr Who: "I imagined the Doctor might have invented the wah-wah pedal. We could’ve done an historical episode where he met Jimi Hendrix"
- Audiority’s Dr Phase recreates the classic MXR Phase 90 pedal as a free plugin
- How to buy your first acoustic piano
- Zero-G Impromptu Electric Guitars review
- Anderson .Paak calls Silk Sonic partner Bruno Mars “one of the greatest vocalists I’ve worked with”
November 13
- BBC weatherman Owain Wyn Evans completes 24-hour drumathon, raising over £2.5 million so far
November 12
- YouTube guitar teacher posts a lesson on Jane's Addiction's Been Caught Stealing, gets a tutorial from Dave Navarro himself correcting it
- Roger Daltrey says Jimi Hendrix stole Pete Townshend’s stage act
- Go mobile with the new issue of Computer Music!
- Tom Morello reveals how he got Bruce Springsteen and Eddie Vedder to sing on his Highway To Hell cover
- Classic ‘80s AMS delay/pitchshifter and Manley tube preamp plugins come to the UAD platform
- Paul McCartney on Beatles manager Allen Klein: "A lot of hurt went down during that period in the early 1970s"
- Robert Cray on Eric Clapton: “I’d just rather not associate with somebody who’s on the extreme and being so selfish"
- AC/DC guitar tech Trace Foster explains why Angus Young’s live sound requires no fewer than 12 Marshall stacks
- Richard Fortus on his new Gretsch signature guitars: "I used one of the prototypes when we recorded the new Guns N’ Roses songs"
- Ringo Starr joins MasterClass to teach drumming and creative collaboration
- Amazon is already dropping prices on MacBook Pro M1 laptops ahead of Black Friday
- Catalinbread promises “rich, harmonically laden overtones” with the Cloak Reverb and Shimmer pedal
- The next generation of Audiomodern's Playbeat is the world's smartest drum machine software
- The Police guitarist Andy Summers on I'll Be Missing You: "We didn't get anything from Puff Daddy"
- Roland SP-404 MKII review
November 11
- Epiphone Slash Collection J-45 review
- Future Retro’s eye-popping Vectra synth is now available for pre-order
- Music theory basics: how to make your chords sound better by adding extra notes
- There's 40% off Toontrack EZX Expansion packs in Sweetwater’s early Black Friday sale - these are the ones we're buying
- Damon Albarn reveals that he cut off part of his finger while making pesto: “I said, 'I'm a pianist. I need my finger back’”
- Cubase 12 has been confirmed for 2022, and the big news is that it’ll have a new licensing system (yes, really)
- The Track: Cypherpunx & Luke Brancaccio on the making of Sore Lullaby
- Sting on his 1954 Fender Precision: "It's called the b-rig bass"
- Kurtis Mantronik: "When I recorded my beats, all you had was the 808. In your face and powerful. No processing. And that was the beauty of those early records"
November 10
- Former Red Hot Chili Peppers guitarist Josh Klinghoffer on joining Pearl Jam: "I’m sort of doing a new role"
- This is the Michael Jackson and Phil Collins mashup you didn't know you needed
- Cody Fry on his Symphony Sessions: “I’ve always loved Eleanor Rigby - ever since I analysed its lyrics way back in fifth grade”
- Learn the classic guitar riff from Sunshine Of Your Love by Cream
- Ultra-rare Apple-1 computer sells for $400,000 (and you thought the new MacBook Pro was expensive)
- Slate Digital is letting you download every single one of its sample packs for free
- See all 20 hand-painted PRS Mark Tremonti signature guitars to celebrate their 20th anniversary
- How to get a great guitar sound... without buying a guitar
November 9
- Watch Eric Gales perform the live blues guitar solo of the year on Gary Clark Jr’s When My Train Comes In
- Solar Guitars unveil the most metal bass guitar of 2021, the Canibalismo
- Save a colossal 67% off Native Instruments' E-Instruments and dramatically improve your home recordings
- This is the guitar gear we're hoping to see on sale this Black Friday
- Watch Guns N’ Roses guitarist Richard Fortus offer a guided tour of his new signature Gretsch Falcons
- Grab a massive discount on MASSIVE with $396 off the NI KOMPLETE Classics Collection at Plugin Boutique
- Eventide says that its SplitEQ plugin is “a fundamentally new type of musical tool”
- Hammer set to fall on Queen’s Kawai EP 308 Baby Grand Electric Piano as it goes up for auction
- Peavey adds affordable classical nylon-string acoustics to its Delta Woods range
- Slate Digital's Murda Melodies multi-effects plugin is the new cheat code to making beats
- Nicky Romero: "Don’t be afraid to ignore the ‘standard’ producer rules. There are so many songs where normal music theory hasn’t been used, but absolutely blows the roof off in a club"
- Create “vast ambient and shimmering soundscapes” with SoldGoldFX’s Ether Modulated Reverberator
- 10 ways to find band members and musicians
- FOMOfx releases Virtual Jeff Pro, a new-and-improved version of its revolutionary digital whammy bar system
- Dreadbox drops Dysphonia, a single-run desktop and Eurorack synth that you can build yourself and promises to take you to “patching heaven”
- Who is the best online guitar personality of 2021?
- Roland brings back the JX-8P and JD-800 synths with the new Boutique JX-08 and JD-08
November 8
- Zoom’s R20 looks more like a standalone touchscreen DAW than a multitrack recorder
- How to mix multiple vocal stems to produce a richer sound
- Harley Benton demos its new bargain Gotoh SC and DC guitars
- George Harrison's childhood home is going up for auction
- ToneGym launches free vocal warm-up exercise tool for singers and coaches
- Meet Pepe Deluxé, the duo on a quest to make music with the world's strangest instruments
- 808 State keyboard player and bassist Andrew Barker has died, aged 53
- The best value Fenders ever? Why it's time to revisit the Player Series
November 5
- Shubb unveils the iridescent Paua Pearl guitar capo
- Joe Satriani says Billy Gibbons reinvented the blues with each ZZ Top release
- Softube Model 84 review
- Meet the Minicorda, a 19” nylon-string acoustic electric guitar that fits inside a suitcase
- Carl Palmer: “As a kid, I found it easier to play drum solos than I did keeping time”
- Cort’s seven-string multi-scale electric returns with Fishman Fluence pickups
- IK Multimedia’s FAME Studios plugin brings home the sweet sound of Alabama
- Tool’s Justin Chancellor has a signature Cry Baby and it’s more than just a wah
- Slipknot return with furious new song The Chapeltown Rag
November 4
- My Morning Jacket's Jim James gets a '70s-style signature Gibson ES-335
- Bitwig announces Bitwig Studio 4.1 with 8 new Note FX
- Iron Maiden's Adrian Smith and Winery Dogs' Richie Kotzen return with new EP – see the video for Better Days
- On our radar: Florence Black
- PRS is in the pink with its new SE P20E Parlor series acoustic
- EarthQuaker Devices releases its Hizumitas Fuzz Sustainer pedal collaboration with Boris guitarist Wata
- Proc Fiskal: "I sort of play YouTube like an instrument [...] five of the tracks came about just by mashing the random start-points in a video"
- Reissue of the classic SP-1200 sampler announced by Dave Rossum
- Boss reveals a new fuzz pedal: the FZ-1W
- Arturia’s MiniFuse audio interfaces give you best-in-class quality at a low price
November 3
- Ray Incident: a whole new realm of music
- The greatest guitarist of all time named
- Zplane’s Tonic is a “music theory plugin” that detects the key and scale of any recording
- Apogee and Bob Clearmountain’s Phases plugin promises everything from Kashmir drums phasing to Good Times piano flanging
- 8 tips to get more out of your guitar gear
- Should you buy a piano, digital piano or keyboard this Black Friday?
- Pablo Nouvelle & Kinnship: "There’s something about physical knobs and buttons that leaves space for creativity and improvisation, compared to menu-diving and mouse clicking"
- Strymon’s StarLab reverb promises to time-warp you to places that other Eurorack modules can’t
- 18 top iPad apps for music-making: the best synths, DAWs and effects for iPad
- Gibson announces 1979 V2 Les Paul Custom for Tool guitarist Adam Jones
- Mastering The Mix’s Reso plugin is here to rid your music of resonance evil
November 2
- Musicians react to the death of jazz guitar great Pat Martino at 77
- Roland FP-10 Digital Piano review
- 7 things to consider when setting up a digital piano at home
- Tame your tube amp with Harley Benton’s GA-250 Power Attenuator
- How to start mixing your music in spatial audio with Dolby Atmos in Logic Pro 10.7
- Is Pioneer DJ’s DM-50D the multi-purpose speaker that can handle music production, DJing and house parties?
- JHS Pedals’ PackRat crowds 9 classic and rare RAT distortion circuits into one compact stompbox
- Waves drops its first batch of early Black Friday deals on 32 killer plugins
- How to turn your iPad into a mobile recording studio
- Watch Paul Gilbert get into the festive spirit with the soft-rock virtuosity of new single Every Christmas Has Love
- The tension is palpable as Mixland releases the Rubber Band Compressor plugin
- Yamaha puts upper-fret access on the menu with the first cutaway models in its TransAcoustic Series
- Rhodes MK8 electric piano price confirmed, and you might want to sit down
November 1
- Bag a free Mustang Micro headphone amp with a one year Fender Play subscription
- Here’s why RipX makes it easy to learn the guitar part for any song
- Is E-MU founder Dave Rossum about to launch a new version of the classic SP-1200 sampler?
- Stompbox icons: Fuzz Face
- Fender buys PreSonus: guitar giant moves for music technology company
- Greg Phillinganes brings the dreamy ‘80s synths to John Mayer’s one-take ballad version of Last Train Home
- How to sand your guitar neck for a satin feel
- Josh Freese forgot he recorded drums for Avril Lavigne and Melissa Etheridge albums
- Metallica want to teach you how to be a band with new Masterclass video course
- Roland’s JD-800 plugin could be the ‘90s synth revival you’ve been waiting for
- 5 reasons why Black Friday is the best time to buy an electronic drum set
- 10 times that music and videogames collided: the good, the bad… and the weird
- Synth Week 2022: Exhibitor A-Z