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June 2019
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- June 14th
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- SampleRadar: 268 free dusty funk samples
- Walker & Royce: 5 things we’ve learned about music production
- Tone makers - Origin Effects’ Simon Keats: "I visited David Gilmour’s lock-up and compared a load of original Uni-Vibes"
- Cecilia Della Peruti: “Stand behind what you want to do musically and try not to be too impressionable”
- FruityLoops was never meant to be for musicians, says creator
- Fulltone unveils “the ultimate OCD” with new CS-OCD-Ge overdrive pedal
- Fender continues unearthing Rarities with Flame Ash Top Stratocaster
- IK Multimedia UNO Drum released: here's what you need to know about this $250 drum machine
- Apple’s Logic Pro X 10.4.5 lets you run more tracks than you’ll ever need and harnesses the power of the new Mac Pro
- June 13th
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- The Arp 2600 synth remake from Behringer is officially happening
- Third annual Oram Awards to include free daytime workshops
- Baroness's John Baizley: "Reversing that standard pedal signal flow is where the most interesting stuff happens"
- Halestorm's Arejay Hale: "I never get to nerd out over drums"
- Blast from the past: E-MU System Proteus
- Netsky: “I wanted to make catchy pop songs, but I also wanted to move away from straight-up 4/4”
- John Mayer’s 2019 pedalboard has been revealed
- Venn Audio releases V-Clip, a soft clipper plugin with saturation
- Peavey's MAX 300 bass amplifier gets official release
- IK Multimedia brings 4 iconic tape machines to your DAW as T-RackS plugins
- The Boss WL-60 wireless system lets you cut the cable and roam the stage
- Boss looks to the future with 4 premium 200 series effect pedals
- June 12th
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- Mark Richardson: “Always insist on being in the conversation. That’s a tip for any drummer”
- The best MIDI keyboard 2019: PC, Mac, iPad and iPhone keyboards for beginners and pros
- Enter Shikari's Rou Reynolds: “We are a creative species, full stop. That’s one of the defining features of humanity”
- Softube’s Monoment Bass plugin promises modern, mix-ready electronic bass sounds for today’s producers
- The Specials’ Horace Panter: “People used to go ‘You and Brad are a great rhythm section’. But everybody’s the rhythm section”
- nABC is a portable analogue compressor for creative real-time sidechaining
- Gibson reveals second Lee Roy Parnell Custom Shop Les Paul
- June 11th
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- Radiohead release "not very interesting" hacked OK Computer recordings
- The Noatronic Onboard Expression gives you MIDI, expression and footswitch control from your guitar’s tone knob
- Rob Papen takes you Back In Time with BIT, a pure analogue-modelled plugin synth
- Bernard Purdie chooses his six career-defining drum performances
- 8 must-have VST/AU multi-effect plugins you need in your DAW
- EssenceFM is a 300-voice synth that looks like the FM hardware of the future
- Father's Day gifts for musician dads
- ROLI teases a controller keyboard that ‘teaches you to play your favourite songs and lets you compose and produce in a new way’
- Donal Gallagher: “Playing with Muddy Waters was Rory’s badge of honour”
- ZT's new Lunchbox Reverb combo revealed
- June 10th
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- PNAU: 5 things we’ve learned about music production
- Unfiltered Audio says that TRIAD is “the world’s most advanced multi-band processor”
- Supro’s super-rare 1959 Triple Tone guitar is reborn as the Tri Tone
- Psychic Modulation heats up the multi-effect market with its VectoMelt plugin
- Mesa/Boogie's Fillmore 100 adds headroom to its vintage-voiced series
- David Friesen: “Focus on the notes and the phrasing - because that’s where the substance is”
- Yngwie Malmsteen: “You think because a singer is there he has something to do with it. He just sings. That’s it"
- Laptop Musician Blog releases free acoustic piano, electric piano and pad plugins
- Matt Bellamy awards Tom Morello with custom Manson electric guitar
- June 8th
- June 7th
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- Is SubLab from Future Audio Workshop the ideal kick synth?
- Brann Dailor: “I see riffs cinematically”
- This week’s best free plugins and music software: VST brass, chorus, a music box and a sequencer
- Matt Bellamy acquires Manson Guitar Works
- Me in my studio: The Bloody Beetroots
- Top Acoustic Guitarist of the Year 2019 prize announced
- How to choose the right guitar strings for your sound
- How Guitarist of the Year helped Guthrie Govan, Dave Kilminster and more become guitar stars
- 5 things guitarists can learn from Prince
- Steve Stevens: these are the 10 guitarists who blew my mind
- Tone King releases Imperial MKII head with built-in Ironman II attenuator
- Celebrate Prince’s birthday with OB-Xd, an Oberheim-style synth for iPad
- Morgan’s Dual 20 teams its AC 20 Deluxe and Abbey for one all-powerful amp
- New Orleans legend Dr. John dies, aged 77
- June 6th
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- Avicii's TIM: a track-by-track guide to the making of the album
- iZotope’s Neutron 3 listens to your track and then mixes it for you
- Enner from Soma Laboratory is a synth that will feed off your emotions
- Joyo launches Guitto accessories brand with Velcro-free guitar pedalboard
- Framus showcases stunning 3D tops on new Panthera II Studio Supreme
- Propellerhead’s Europa synth is coming to the Soundation online DAW, and this could just be the start
- Røde’s new TF-5 condenser microphones promise to take your breath away
- The FX files: Pro Co Rat
- Bill Wurtz: “Bass is a hypnosis tool. If it’s done properly it makes you like the song better without knowing why”
- June 5th
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- Matt Bellamy has an Arturia Prophet V synth built into his guitar, courtesy of Fishman and Mind Music Labs
- On the anniversary of Metallica’s St. Anger, we ask, was the snare really that bad?
- Yotto's favourite music software
- Zoom’s Livetrak L-20R portable mixer/recorder could be your live band’s new best friend
- Mastering The Mix’s Bassroom is like a ‘studio audio engineer in a plugin’
- One for the road - Robin Trower: “I was playing with Jack Bruce and my amp caught fire. That was a bit Spinal Tap”
- Is Morifone’s Aileron the future of guitar headstocks?
- Old Blood Noise Endeavors unveils Whitecap asynchronous dual tremolo pedal
- Get a taste of a contemporary prog rhythm powerhouse with this Rendezvous Point drum and bass playthrough
- Ibanez’s Fingerstyle Collection acoustics will unleash your creativity
- Initial Audio’s new plugin lets you ‘master a beat in 30 seconds’
- Ernie Ball debuts Primo, Mega and Mammoth Slinky guitar strings
- June 4th
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- Reloop's Spin is a portable turntable for scratch DJs
- The 1010 Music Blackbox standalone sampler workstation is shipping now
- New guitar gear of the month: review round-up (June 2019)
- Robert Smith employs Line 6 Spiders for The Cure’s mammoth Disintegration shows
- Get Native Instruments Komplete upgrades for half price, or bag a bargain hardware/software bundle
- Let’s hope the free Lurker Chorus plugin sounds as colourful as it looks
- Mooer set to disrupt multi-effects market as astonishingly feature-rich GE300 lands
- Nylon is a new plugin synth that lets you shape your sound using ‘geometric oscillators’
- The 10 best distortion pedals for metal: our pick of the best high-gain guitar pedals
- The best Strat-style guitars under $/£1,000
- The playlist: Megadeth's Dave Mustaine
- Boutique pedal company Prescription Electronics announces return
- Apple WWDC: 4 things that music makers need to know about
- June 3rd
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- Solar Guitars unleashes metal monsters with new 8-string and baritone electric guitars
- United Plugins launches with 3 effects from 3 different developers
- The best PA speakers 2019: the best live sound systems for bands and buskers
- New hi-tech music gear of the month: review round-up (June 2019)
- Behringer drops the first picture of its Synthi VCS3 clone
- Here’s how two Novation Peaks combined to create the theme from... Twin Peaks
- Hear Sabian and A&F Drum Co.'s new ANKH cymbal collaboration
- Auto-Tune EFX+ is more than just a pitchshifting plugin
- Mayday Parade's Jeremy Lenzo: “I don’t care about being the best bass player; I just want to write the best songs”
- 6 fresh guitar artists you need to hear in June 2019
- June 1st
