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Best keyboards for beginners and kids 2021: Get started with our expert pick of beginner keyboards for all ages
Useful advice and recommendations to help you find the right entry-level keyboard for you or your child
Focusrite's FAST Verb uses AI to dial in reverb fast
Their machine learning algorithms automatically generate a suitable reverb for the sounds you're processing
Jerry Cantrell interview: “I’ve always liked a healthy dose of the G&L, Rampage and Gibson Les Paul. That’s the meat in the meatloaf”
On his first solo album in nigh-on 20 years, Brighten, the Alice In Chains guitarist finds himself creating images with sound, and referencing the freewheeling creativity of ‘70s pop culture
Soundgarden's Matt Cameron "honoured" when Kurt Cobain asked him to change his guitar string
The former Soundgarden drummer also remember' Dave Grohl's power, "disgusting" hiking socks and water bottle
Jon Hopkins timed his new ambient record to last the length of a ketamine trip
"This kind of therapy is going to be legal and widespread, and you need to have music for it [...] there is a frontier here – a new genre"
Best budget studio headphones 2021: Our top cheap picks for every studio task
Expert buying advice plus the top budget studio headphones for music-makers from just $/£40, including models by Sennheiser, Beyerdynamic, AKG and Audio Technica
Slipknot guitarist Jim Root reveals prototypes for two Charvel San Dimas signature models
Maple and ebony fingerboard guitars could be in the works
See Coldplay covering Pearl Jam Vitalogy song Nothingman live in Seattle
"This is a 44-year-old man remembering how much he fell in love with Pearl Jam in 1991"
Slash announces new album and reveals writing status with Guns N' Roses
Hear his first single for Gibson Records with Myles Kennedy And The Conspirators – recorded live in the studio
Best practice amps 2021: sharpen your guitar chops with our pick of the 10 best amps for practice
Onboard effects, digital modelling, valves? Here are the best practice amps for guitar, with options from Line 6, Yamaha, Fender and more
Lone: "You could take everything away from me but the laptop and I'm confident I could make interesting music quite happily for the rest of my life"
Matt Cutler's releasing his first album in five years. The producer joined us to talk through how he produces his technicolour, rave-adjacent electronica
Rob Papen updates his classic Predator synth plugin to version 3, but is it still worth hunting down?
Hybrid analogue/wavetable synth gets a redesigned interface and new features
Cory Wong plays Prince’s Cloud guitar at Paisley Park: “It’s really nice but it needed a setup”
A match made in Minneapolis funk heaven?
Back to the '80s: how to capture an '80s sound in your home studio
Recreate the sound of the decade that brought us synth-pop, new wave and glam metal
The 10 synths and drum machines that defined the '80s
The machines that gave music's megastars their sounds
Spitfire Audio shifts gears with Trinz Colours PST, a new drill sample library
It’s the first release from its Quality Music Freak division
