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- December 4
- December 3
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- Mojo Hand FX unveils the Sericon, a Klon-style drive pedal with three separate gain controls
- Tears For Fears break out the acoustic guitars for new single No Small Thing
- Brian Eno got annoyed at The Who's "lightweight" songs: "what are they doing releasing this kind of material?"
- Jim James: “There’s just something so beautiful about a 335. To me, it really is the ultimate guitar”
- Robby Krieger on Jim Morrison: "There was no difference between Jim on-stage and off. I’m pretty sure Iggy Pop doesn’t roll around in glass in between trips to the supermarket and I doubt Hendrix ever set his guitar on fire just to keep warm"
- Listen to Kirk Hammett and Alex Lifeson join Tom Morello on the hard-riffing, EDM groove of new single I Have Seen The Way
- "You can have Lemmy's sound through this plugin" – Duff McKagan on Softube's new Marshall Murder One
- Hans Zimmer on the benefits of Spatial Audio and his “weird relationship” with Jony Ive: “I don't want to hear stereo, because you took half of my sonic world away”
- How to restore your electric guitar’s tremolo
- Brian May looks back on his Queen live guitar solos: "If something works great and you get a good response, the tendency is to keep doing it but it doesn't work that way"
- Behold the Hydra: Steve Vai's new triple-necked beast of a guitar
- The Breakdown: Danny Byrd on the one record he wishes he'd produced
- Watch Buzz Osborne share the secrets behind his Melvins riffs, playing style and how he gets his tone
- SampleRadar advent calendar: 338 free house samples
- The 10 best songwriter guitarists in the world right now, according to you
- December 2
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- Steve Vai returns with new song Little Pretty, announces album Inviolate
- The fourth run of Harley Benton's flagship Fusion-III guitars is bringing the flames
- Downloading Rast Sound’s free VST/AU Mad Filter plugin might actually make a lot of sense
- Sennheiser’s new HD 400 Pro studio headphones promise to help you create “outstanding audio mixes”
- Tom Morello gets his first ever signature overdrive pedal with MXR POWER 50
- Waves' massive Cyber Monday sale has been extended - again! Save up to $3,724 off and bag free plugins
- That Universal Audio sound is now within reach of everybody, from bedroom producers to podcasters, with Volt
- Electro-Harmonix adds the Q-Tron Envelope Controlled Filter to its Nano range of effects pedals
- Nile Rodgers swaps the Hitmaker for a hot water bottle as he reads you a Spatial Audio bedtime story on Apple Music
- Best Roland TD-1DMK deals December 2021: the best prices on a killer Roland electronic drum set
- Best Boss RC-1 deals December 2021: save big bucks on an iconic looper pedal
- Best KRK Rokit 7 G4 deals December 2021: bag a top studio monitor bargain today
- Best Boss GT-1000 deals December 2021: explore the best prices for this epic multi-effects pedal
- Best MacBook Pro M1 deals December 2021: make significant savings on a slick music production laptop
- Best Focal Listen Professional deals December 2021: the best prices on our number one studio headphones choice
- Best Yamaha Pacifica 112V deals December 2021: the best prices for this killer beginner-friendly guitar
- Best Audio-Technica ATH-M50x deals December 2021: get our favourite studio headphones for less
- Best Audient iD4 MKII deals December 2021: the cheapest prices for this 4.5 star budget audio interface
- Best Rode NT-USB and Rode NT-USB Mini deals December 2021: bag a desktop microphone bargain
- Best Focusrite Scarlett Solo 3rd Gen deals December 2021: bag a budget audio interface bargain
- Best Sennheiser HD-206 headphones deals December 2021: find the best prices online for Sennheiser’s cheapest studio cans
- Best Shure MV7 deals December 2021: the latest bargains on this do-it-all mic
- Best Novation Launchkey Mini Mk3 deals December 2021: we've got the lowest prices for Novation’s top budget MIDI keyboard
- Best SSL 2 and SSL 2+ audio interface deals December 2021: the place to find cheap SSL interface deals
- Best Alesis Nitro Mesh deals December 2021: big savings our number one budget electronic drum set
- Best Casio Privia PX-770 deals December 2021: bag a great digital piano deal today
- Best Yamaha Piaggero NP-12 deals December 2021: learn to play with these compact keyboard bargains
- Best Blue Yeti microphone deals December 2021: the biggest savings across the full USB microphone range
- Engineer Bruce Swedien on the making of Michael Jackson's Thriller: "I went in when Eddie Van Halen was warming up and I left immediately. It was so loud - I would never subject my hearing to that kind of volume level!"
- Rhodes is now allowing everyone to order their dream MK8 electric piano (if they can afford it)
- Bono says the guitar on The Fly is "the sound of Edge's brain"
- The 10 best bassists in the world right now, as decided by you
- Taylor Swift responds to Billy Joel comparing her to The Beatles: “that broke my brain”
- Might as well jump: Dave Grohl covers Van Halen (and keytar is involved)
- SampleRadar advent calendar: 483 free movie soundtrack samples
- December 1
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- SampleRadar advent calendar: 298 free analogue drum samples
- SampleRadar advent calendar: get a free sample pack every day this December
- Thanks to Focusrite’s Hitmaker Expansion, anyone who buys a Scarlett, Clarett+ or Red audio interface now gets $1,300-worth of essential studio plugins for free
- The Edge: "Even Better Than The Real Thing is probably the closest U2 will get to sounding like the Rolling Stones"
- BBC Radio 1's Matt Edmondson: "I'd never written a song, or picked up an instrument. I knew nothing about producing, and I've learned it all. Every song you hear in the podcast is me figuring it out as I go along"
- Meet the woman who’s been playing the piano for more than 100 years
- Spotify reveals the most-streamed artists, songs and albums of 2021
- See Dave Grohl singing behind the drum kit, crooning Barry Manilow and screaming death metal on cover versions
- Spitfire Audio’s free LA Atmos Labs instrument brings you the “beating heart” of Los Angeles in a plugin
- Jeff Beck: "I was pretty down at the time, I'd lost my girl, Hendrix had come and smeared everybody across the floor… I’d fallen out with the Yardbirds"
- "I took advice from Madonna for that record" – Michael Stipe explains why New Adventures In Hi-Fi and Reveal are his favourite REM albums
- Ross From Friends: "I had an idea to create a piece of software that would record everything I play. It’s the same principle as sampling – except I’m sampling myself"
- Virtual Eurorack studio VCV Rack 2.0 launches with VST plugin support, but not in the free version
- The Breakdown: Danny Byrd talks us through his process from inspiration to mixdown
- The 10 best acoustic guitarists in the world right now, as decided by you
