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Jack Antonoff reveals the two vintage delays that provide the secret sauce on Sabrina Carpenter’s Manchild
By Ben Rogerson published
“I'm really focusing on how to utilise this stuff to make things feel like they could have only happened in that moment,” he explains

Focusrite releases blue Anniversary Edition of its Scarlett 2i2 interface
By Matt Mullen published
This limited-edition version of the 2i2 comes with three additional premium plugins from Sonnox, Softube and Acustica Audio

Reverb wants to help you buy more gear with new Wallet feature
By Matt Mullen published
Sellers earn 1% cash back to spend on Reverb when funds from sales are stored in the Reverb Wallet

“I would like to do it. We’re having conversations”: Brian May suggests a Queen Sphere residency could be on the cards
By Will Simpson published
Guitarist is fed up with traditional touring

Olivia Dean admits to having initial doubts about her current global hit single
By Ben Rogerson published
Man I Need is one of the most streamed songs in the world right now

The guitar that Liam smashed the night Oasis split is one of over 100 Gallagher-related items up for auction
By Will Simpson published
It could fetch up to £500,000

With an eight-octave range, has Boss raised the standard for pitch-shifting pedals with the XS Poly Shifter range?
By Jonathan Horsley published
The XS-100 is a pitch-shifting workstation with integrated expression pedal, 30 memory slots, MIDI, and lots of range while the XS-1 presents a 6-octave range in compact format

“His body of work is unparalleled in its quality”: Danny Thompson, acoustic bassist supreme, has died
By Will Simpson published
Tributes have come in from Tony Visconti, Graham Coxon and others

Could IK Multimedia’s "ethical" ReSing software be a gamechanger for AI voice modelling?
By Ben Rogerson published
Feed it your scratch vocal and it will replace it with an “expressive, professional-quality voice”

“He wanted all that at an undoable selling price”: Mesa/Boogie founder Randall Smith confirms rumours that it built James Hetfield a signature model – and it combined three iconic amps in one
By Jonathan Horsley published
A Diezel, a JC-120 and a Mark IIC+ all in one? That would have cost a whack – and it would have, which is why the Metallica frontman's prototype never got released
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