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- August 14
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- Prism Sound’s Lyra audio interface delivers added creativity during lockdown
- Take a first look at Kenny Wayne Shepherd's new signature Fender Stratocaster
- Pioneers of delay: 10 innovative players who transformed guitar tone using echo and delay pedals
- Cort unveils new flagship "high-intensity" KX model: the KX500 Etched
- Paul Gilbert on how YouTube could be killing classic rock vibrato
- Steve Lukather delivers a brutal 7am wake-up call to his neighbours after being disturbed by leaf blowers
- Blackstar releases Unity Elite bass amp and cabs
- Bruce Hornsby - the 10 albums that changed my life: “It’s amazing how much impact one song can have”
- August 13
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- The 11 best metal guitars 2020: the ultimate machines for heavy riffing at any budget
- Harley Benton's DNAfx GiT Multi-FX promises stunning bang-for-buck
- Fender Tone Master Blonde edition amps offer a new finish, speaker and impulse responses
- Mixbucket is a simple and free way for producers and collaborators to share feedback on their music
- Fender announces two exotic Acoustasonic Stratocaster finishes
- Fender unveils three new portable, feature-packed Acoustic Series amps
- Revehō launches The Slight modular travel guitar via Kickstarter
- Behringer’s RD-6 drum machine arrives in an eye-popping range of colour options
- My top 10 concept albums – by The Ocean's Robin Staps
- August 12
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- Free IK AmpliTube SVX plugin: download “legendary bass tones” for nothing
- Phil Collins: viral In The Air Tonight reaction video puts the song back in the charts
- Darkglass's SQUID is rising from the depths to get you
- Fender reveals California Traditional acoustic line up
- Best Waves plugins 2020: essential Waves effects, from delays and compressors to ambience plugins
- Native Instruments’ Co-Founder and President step down to make way for “a new generation of leadership”
- Could Aloha be the low-latency app that finally makes virtual band rehearsals a reality?
- Dave Grohl pays tribute to Trini Lopez: "My 1967 Trini Lopez signature guitar is the sound of our band"
- Behringer claims that its new PPG Wave synth clone sounds “truly amazing”
- In Flames: "We had no idea when we created this thing" – Clayman 20th anniversary track by track interview
- August 11
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- Singer and guitarist Trini López dies aged 83 from Coronavirus
- A more affordable Universal Audio Apollo audio interface is here, but it’s not as new as you might think
- The 7 best Yamaha electronic drum sets 2020: top Yamaha e-kits for beginner, intermediate and pro drummers
- Carmine Appice on how John Bohnam ‘borrowed’ his fills from Vanilla Fudge
- Brent Mason's heavily modded Telecaster gets official Fender Stories Collection edition
- DW launches the Pi Piccolo snare
- 5 reasons why 5G will be amazing for music lovers and producers
- Roland’s TR-8S gets a free FM synthesis engine, making it “the most complete drum machine ever”
- Erica Synths turns up the pressure with the Das Kleine Fusion Eurorack modular synth
- Lukas Nelson interview: "It’s like being in a masterclass, seeing how Neil Young works"
- Fantastic Negrito Live Stream With Orange Amps coming Thursday
- August 10
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- The 2021 Winter NAMM Show is cancelled
- New mini Fender Squier Strat, Jazzmaster and Precision Bass guitars announced
- Fender announces 4 new guitar and bass effects pedals – including a wah
- The 11 best electric guitars under $/£1,000: find your next guitar under a grand
- Fender reveals new Road Worn relic'd Vintera Tele and Strat guitars
- “Forget presets”: Sonible’s smart:reverb plugin promises to listen to your sound and create a custom space for it
- 13 great Fender Jaguar and Jazzmaster guitar player moments
- Watch one-armed drummer Jack Thomas play Duality by Slipknot
- The Netflix ‘ta-dum’ sound features a reversed electric guitar sample that was created using ‘90s effect processors
- Iron Maiden and Deep Purple producer Martin Birch dies, age 71
- August 8
- August 7
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- 5 songs producers need to hear by… Jam & Lewis
- Hear Dream Theater's John Petrucci and Mike Portnoy reunited on Terminal Velocity
- Harley Benton unveils the SC-Custom II guitar series with 10 affordable models
- Here's what Roland has planned for its 40th anniversary 808 day celebrations
- Watch Jason Isbell show his vintage guitar collection – including his '59 'Redeye' Gibson Les Paul
- 10 of the greatest Telecaster tones ever
- Check out all our blues guitar skills lessons in one place
- Eric Johnson focuses on using string stretches in your licks for latest charity guitar lesson
- August 6
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- 8 ways to ruin a David Gilmour guitar solo
- 10 things we miss about old-school music production
- Neck Deep guitarist Sam Bowden: 10 albums that changed my life
- The best VST reverb plugins 2020: make some space in your DAW for these amazing ambience processors
- Acoustik Attak claims its guitar picks will give players "enhanced sound waves"
- Could this be the simplest and easiest AI mastering plugin yet?
- August 5
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- Jason Isbell teaches a great slide guitar lick for standard tuning with his '53 Tele
- Can technology help save live music, and what’s the future of gigs and festivals?
- PRS Guitars launch a limited run of CE 24 Standard Satin models in Europe
- ToneGym is an online ear-training platform that could help you to master music theory and write better songs
- Watch: spiff is an “adaptive transient processor” which aims to make fixing tricky mixing problems easy
- 10 of the best Les Paul tones of all time
- Gibson reveals signature Les Paul Junior for Neil Young guitarist Lukas Nelson
- Best studio headphones 2020: 11 top wired and wireless headphones for music production
- discoDSP’s free OB-Xd VST synth plugin has been updated, and it now looks more like a classic Oberheim than ever
- Watch Nuno Bettencourt, Brian May, Steve Vai, Tosin Abasi, Yngwie Malmsteen and Zakk Wylde play Bohemian Rhapsody
- August 4
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- The Lava Music x Chemist Creations collaborative guitar embraces minimalism
- Fender and Shawn Mendes harness flower power with a Musicmaster model
- The price is slight for Harley Benton's new electro acoustic guitar model
- Apple launches “the most powerful 27-inch iMac ever,” but is now the right time for music makers to buy?
- Akai MPK mini mk3: "world’s best-selling USB MIDI keyboard controller” now looks slicker and plays better
- How to choose an audio interface for your home studio
- Pianotone 600 is a free VST plugin that emulates a ‘70s keyboard you probably haven’t heard of
- 10 best laptops for music production 2020: portable computers for musicians, DJs and producers
- August 3
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- Classic interview: Buddy Guy – "If people come see you, I think you should give them every damn thing you’ve got"
- Could Apple’s first ARM-powered silicon MacBooks be $200 cheaper than the current Intel models?
- Norwegian guitarist Tora Dahle Aagård teaches technique and tone
- See rare footage of Jimi Hendrix and Buddy Guy jamming onstage
- Can HoRNet’s low-cost MasterTool plugin “make your tracks sound good without effort”?
- Not so Way Huge after all: the MkV Green Rhino is a smaller overdrive pedal
- Caparison has really gone to town with the spec on Mattias Eklundh's new 8-string
- August 2
