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Capture every nuance of a vocal and every detail of an instrument with condenser microphones from Neumann, Audio-Technica, Lewitt, Aston, AKG and more
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"The worst track we ever had to record" – why 3/4 of the Beatles hated Maxwell's Silver Hammer
No Paul McCartney song ever incurred the joint wrath of Lennon, Harrison and Starr quite like Maxwell’s Silver Hammer. Here’s why…
Fantastic (stock) plugins and how to use them: Logic Pro Space Designer
Get to grips with impulse responses and convolution reverb in our guide to one of Logic's most versatile reverb plugins
What's great and not so great about Gibson Les Paul Juniors?
This video covers it all about the one-pickup wonder – and host Tom Bukovac reveals his uncanny ability to simulate a delay pedal on a guitar with just his hands!
This Chinese zither cover of Michael Jackson’s Beat It comes complete with a rework of Eddie Van Halen’s epic guitar solo
You’ll wanna be startin’ guzheng after watching this
14 tips to master the art of wavetable synthesis
Get your head around one of the most powerful sound design techniques available to the modern producer
SampleRadar: 560 free warehouse techno samples
Can't get into Berghain? Download this free sample pack and make your own techno track instead
Watch Erja Lyytinen bust out the kazoo and pay tribute to Jimi Hendrix with a blazing slide cover of Crosstown Traffic
Hendrix in open C? Why not!? The performance is taken from the Finnish blues phenom’s forthcoming live album, Diamonds On The Road – Live 2023, which hits stores 6 October
JHS Pedals resurrects the Ross Electronics brand and relaunches it with five new pedals – and a documentary
The Ross Chorus, Compressor, Distortion, Fuzz and Phaser are based on classic designs and each share a simple two-knob setup and switchable modes
ABBA’s Björn Ulvaeus says that AI will be “the most fantastic co-writer you will ever have”
The legendary Swedish musician reports back on a “mind-boggling” demo he recently received from an unnamed big tech company
Royal Blood’s Mike Kerr has a new signature Fender Jaguar – a built-to-rock short-scale bass, finished in Tiger’s Blood Orange
Kerr’s signature Jag is a beaut, with gold hardware complementing the black ‘guard and finish nicely, and a powerful custom humbucker/Wide Range 'bucker pairing
The ultimate guide to wavetable synthesis
A technique used by everyone from Tangerine Dream to Skrillex, wavetable synthesis adds new dimensions of texture and movement to your sound design. But how does it work?
Classic interview: Robbie Robertson on The Last Waltz, his bronze Strat and playing in the eye of the storm with Dylan – "On that tour in 1965 and ’66… I have never heard of anybody going through something like that, ever, in music history"
A 2017 Guitarist magazine interview with the late guitarist found him looking back on making history
Schecter gets graphic on its new signature models for The Cure bassist Simon Gallup
Gallup gets a new EMG-equipped semi-hollow Corsair to join a newly refreshed Ultra Spitfire solidbody, and they are hard to miss with those red finishes and lion graphics
Hermanos Gutiérrez: "It's not about skills, it's not about technique – it's about the feeling you put into that music"
Interview: the instrumental brothers talk 'horse riding' slap guitar, Dan Auerbach's Gretsch and the inspiration of the desert
Best budget studio monitors 2023: Pocket-friendly home studio speakers, most pairs under $200/£200
The best cheap studio monitors for home recording, with hand-picked and affordable options from IK Multimedia, M-Audio, JBL, PreSonus and more
Jim Dunlop combines fuzz and a low-frequency wah sweep on Japanese shred legend Akira Takasaki’s signature Cry Baby
With auto-return switching, a dark wah voicing and switchable onboard fuzz, the Loudness guitarist says this is “The best rock wah pedal for live performances”
Levon Vincent: "A nice vintage synth can sound pretty good, but if you layer that with the punch of software it sounds ten times better"
Dance chameleon Levon Vincent plugs straight into the techno grid with fifth album, Work In Progress. Danny Turner finds out more
Quick Tips: How to identify and fix phase issues
You might know how to spot when this common problem besets your music but how do you fix it? We explore some options here…
