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- November 30
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- Get a free analogue-style synth worth £160 with Computer Music 251
 - Chase Bliss Audio unveils Warped Vinyl HiFi vibrato/chorus pedal
 - Brian May, Hank Marvin and Ed O'Brien on the magic of the Vox AC30
 - OneManBand generates a backing band based on your playing and makes your guitar sound like any instrument
 - HyVibe Audio's Smart Acoustic Guitar features a built-in speaker, multi-FX, recorder and amp
 - Waldorf’s Quantum hybrid polysynth could be arriving soon, but it’s not going to be cheap
 - Mike Rutherford's 10 tips for guitarists
 
 - November 29
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- Computer Music 251 – VINTAGE SYNTHESIS – our new issue is out now!
 - Cableguys’ HalfTime plugin gives you instant slowdown effects
 - This weekend's $4 million star guitar auction could smash records
 - Manson reveals 4 new Matt Bellamy guitars for 2017
 - Elektron makes Overbridge just Overbridge again... and yes, it’s free once more
 - Old Blood Noise Endeavors unites high-gain distortion, chorus and delay for Excess pedal
 - Plugin Boutique’s new plugin lets you record internet radio in your DAW
 
 - November 28
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- Make 1 guitar sound like 3 with the Submarine Pro pickup
 - Manson reveals signature guitars for Skindred’s Mikey Demus
 - Should mobile phones be banned at gigs? Nearly three quarters of young people say no
 - Z.Vex finally releases Vertical Vexter Fuzz Factory pedal
 - London Drum Show 2017: Rhythm readers' covers!
 - BandLab lets you create music and collaborate for free
 - 6 fresh guitar artists you need to hear this month
 - Wolfgang Palm goes to Infinite and beyond as he releases a Pro desktop version of his iOS synth
 
 - November 27
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- The 5 best new electronic percussion products of 2017
 - Ola Englund unveils his own guitar brand, Solar Guitars
 - Sublime Guitars announces Tomcat Deluxe offset electric
 - Will Neunaber’s Tri-Chorus Plus Inspire your guitar playing?
 - Pigtronix unveils 3 new mini guitar effects pedals
 - The 10 best new drummers in the world right now
 - The 12 best prog drummers in the world right now
 - Slayer's Gary Holt: "Don’t sacrifice feeling for technical perfection"
 - Rob Papen brings you even bigger SubBoomBass as his low-end synth is updated to version 2
 - Faith unveils affordable Nexus Series acoustic guitars
 - Jake Bugg: “I'm not a fan of formulas in songwriting, and being told that this is right and that’s wrong”
 - The 9 best studio session drummers in the world right now
 - The 10 best British rock drummers in the world right now
 - The 18 best live session drummers in the world right now
 
 - November 24
 - November 23
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- Seymour Duncan launches Joe Bonamassa Amos Pickup Set
 - Watch Marmozets storm through every guitar and bass part on belting single Habits
 - TC Electronic debuts $49 tube-driven Tube Pilot Overdrive pedal
 - Vintage drums showcase: the best classic kits from London Drum Show 2017
 - Me and my guitar: In Flames' Björn Gelotte
 
 - November 22
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- 10 questions for Grooms’ Travis Johnson
 - Infected Mushroom say that silence is golden as they introduce their Gatekeeper plugin
 - Waves’ Bass Slapper lets you play slap bass on your keyboard
 - Faith aims for fingerstyle and percussive players with new Hi-Gloss Venus acoustic guitar
 - Waves brings three classic plugin effects to iOS as part of Cubasis 2.3
 - EarthQuaker Devices adds Flexi-switch and relay switching in updates to 4 popular pedals
 - Fender introduces Purple Sparkle Jazz and P-Bass for U2’s Adam Clayton
 - Billy Sheehan: “Having whizzy chops turns people off - it’s musicians playing for musicians”
 - Rig tour: Lower Than Atlantis
 - Gibson ends development of Cakewalk music software
 
 - November 21
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- Keeley’s Omni Reverb pedal “fills the space around the notes with perfect depth”
 - Epiphone’s Joe Bonamassa 1958 ‘Amos’ Korina Flying V “sounds better than the originals”
 - Control your guitar rig using a piece of paper with the Poly Expressive MIDI foot controller
 - Softube announces UA Apollo support in Console 1, the Fix Phaser plugin and updates for Modular
 - Justin Meldal-Johnsen on his Fender Road Worn Mustang Bass: “It’s something that could really fill a void for people”
 - Focusrite and Novation are offering XLN Addictive Drums 2 for free with certain audio interfaces and controllers
 - Want to build your own arduino-powered 8-step sequencer? Here’s how…
 - Review round-up: versatile solidbody electric guitars
 - Jamie Lawson: "Ed Sheeran’s been a fantastic boss"
 - Akai’s MPC 2.0 software is now officially available and brings new features to your beat production hardware
 
 - November 20
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- Native Instruments Maschine Mk3: MusicRadar hands-on
 - Teenage Engineering’s R robot speaker could be its craziest release yet
 - Wampler’s Tumnus Deluxe “sets the new standard” for Klon-style overdrive pedals
 - Spotify gets into the music making business by acquiring Soundtrap, an online studio
 - Seymour Duncan promises its new La Super Rica Fuzz pedal won’t disappear in the mix
 - Total Guitar 300th issue gear giveaway
 - Audiority goes for a vintage vibe with the Echoes T7E plugin
 - The history of Vox: celebrating 6 decades of tone
 - One for the road: Joe Bonamassa
 - Best in guitars 2017
 
 - November 19
 - November 18
 - November 17
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- SampleRadar: 264 free stereo toolkit samples
 - Someone just strolled into a Hard Rock Cafe and walked out with Eddie Van Halen’s $100k Frankenstrat
 - Taurus releases Stomp-Head 3 pedalboard guitar amp
 - Ibanez reveals tricked-out Thundercat TCB1006 six-string bass guitar
 - Maybe Joe Bonamassa was right all along: this mind-boggling guitarist can simulate 7 different effects without using pedals
 - The Wiggle Kit lets you control your vocal effects by moving your hands
 - Rig tour: Russian Circles
 - Tone makers: Electro-Harmonix founder Mike Matthews
 
 - November 16
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- KHDK unleashes Kirk Hammett signature Ghoul Jr Overdrive mini pedal
 - Danimal Cannon’s chiptune-meets-guitar cover of Rush’s Subdivisions will blow your mind
 - Blast from the past: Roland Jupiter-8
 - This strap-on snare drum can be played by anyone, anywhere
 - Focusrite is letting you download top-quality free plugins from big-name developers
 - Universal Audio aims to impress with its Distressor compressor as it releases UAD Software v9.4
 - Issue 325 of Future Music is on sale now
 - Foo Fighters' Pat Smear and Chris Shiflett go in-depth on writing and recording Concrete And Gold
 - Collings introduces versatile I-30 LC hollowbody electric guitar
 - Adrian Belew's 11 tips for guitarists
 
 - November 15
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- There are now three more devices to play with in Korg’s Gadget
 - Big band maestro Pete Cater on Buddy Rich: "Nobody ever swung harder"
 - Cubase 9.5 puts user requests to the fore, says Steinberg
 - Eventide’s MangledVerb plugin is ready to put your sounds through the wringer
 - Fibonacci reveals Martin Taylor Joya archtop guitar
 - Best yard sale in the world? Neil Young guitars, gear, cars and more up for grabs at auction
 - 10 questions for Lonely The Brave’s Ross Smithwick
 - Sinevibes’ Eternal flanger plugin goes on a bit
 - Ibanez’s iconic RG550 looks set to return in original finishes
 - Positive Grid announces free reverb functionality for BIAS Head, Rack and Amp
 
 - November 14
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- Goldie: "Timeless was a blueprint, a f**king good blueprint"
 - Prestige announces Troubadour RS guitar
 - Wampler’s Paisley Deluxe is “the ultimate Brad Paisley pedal”
 - Iron & Wine: “I feel heavier because of the experiences I’ve had”
 - Fender releases Ed O’Brien EOB Sustainer Stratocaster guitar
 - Radiohead’s Ed O’Brien: “I was always drawn to sounds that didn’t sound like the guitar”
 - Boom! Air Music Technology’s drum machine breaks out of Pro Tools as a VST/AU plugin
 
 - November 13
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- Transform your electric guitar into a banjo with Guitar-Jo
 - Historic Dylan acoustic fetches $395,000 at auction
 - Former Faith No More frontman Chuck Mosley dies aged 57
 - Video premiere: exclusive footage from the launch of Gary Moore’s Blues And Beyond boxset
 - Obscura's Linus Klausenitzer: "People say that all music has been done before, but I totally disagree"
 - What’s the best new Eurorack gear of 2017?
 - Create dancing mushrooms in your DAW
 - Best in music tech 2017
 
 - November 10
 - November 9
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- Danelectro’s Billionaire pedal series promises tonal riches
 - Sublime unveils Chieftain Deluxe semi-hollow guitar
 - Airbourne's Joel O’Keeffe: the 5 guitar solos that changed the way I play
 - Roger Mayer: “Jimi and I had synaesthesia - we would see colours in sound”
 - Mark King: “You just need to remember to not be precious and to go with it”
 
 - November 8
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- ThorpyFX debuts The Veteran (Si) Reverb Special Edition fuzz/boost pedal
 - If you need drums to jam to, BeatsBot can create them on your iOS device
 - Carla Bruni: “I just want to hang out and be a musician”
 - Amy Winehouse bassist Dale Davis: “Amy was an amazing talent, and very easy to work with”
 - SoundToys’ free Little Plate plugin emulates the EMT 140 reverb and goes beyond it
 - Ernie Ball celebrates 40 years of the Volume Pedal with luxurious limited-edition
 - 4 incredible new features at London Drum Show 2017
 
 - November 7
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- NAMM 2018: PRS announces new SE guitars and updates to existing models
 - Prince's blue teal Cloud guitar fetches record $700k
 - Gene Simmons: "Creating new music so people can download it for free does not appeal to me"
 - Modestep play the IceCold gig strung-up between two mountains and live to tell the tale
 - Gibson reveals “fun and functional” neon finishes for Modern Les Paul Axcess Custom guitar
 - Mike Dawes: this is how I arranged Metallica's One for one guitar
 - 5 minutes alone: Seether's Shaun Morgan
 
 - November 6
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- New guitar gear of the month: review round-up (November 2017)
 - Cakewalk’s Momentum lets you capture song ideas on your phone and drag them into your DAW
 - Dr No drops Mini Turd Fuzz pedal
 - The War On Drugs' Adam Granduciel: "Sometimes it’s hard for me to just be the guitar player and lose myself"
 - Me and my guitar: James Bay
 - Jimi Hendrix’s Fuzz Face sells for $40,625
 - New music tech gear of the month: review round-up (November 2017)
 
 - November 3
 - November 2
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- First look: Apple GarageBand for iOS 2.3
 - Sensel Morph wants to be the last controller you’ll ever need and is available now
 - Deftones bassist Sergio Vega: "The whammy bar shouldn’t just be relegated to guitar"
 - Ableton Live 10 announced: features, price and release date confirmed
 - TC Electronic announces Analog Armada of 8 new ultra-affordable pedals
 - It’s back to black for the Arturia KeyLab 88 and MiniLab mkII controllers
 - ESP debuts Kirk Hammett Ouija Natural electric guitars
 - Neil Peart on Buddy Rich: "It's not fan talk, because I never really was a Buddy Rich fan"
 - Fuzzrocious’s LunaReclipse pedal delivers 12 different types of overdrive/distortion
 - Cort debuts latest entry in its “best-ever acoustic guitar family”
 - Meet Suhr’s Alexa, a multi-wave, dual-channel analogue chorus/vibrato pedal
 - Fender reveals limited-edition Black Western Blues Deluxe Reissue guitar amp
 - TC Electronic’s ultra-affordable El Mocambo pedal promises “unbelievable tube-like overdrive”
 
 - November 1
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- GarageBand for iOS gets a classic drum machine step sequencer and now lets you choose your sounds
 - Computer Music 250 – get loads inside our special anniversary issue
 - Epiphone’s metal-ready Richie Faulkner Flying V Custom soars into view
 - Turns out the Universe is one massive space synth and you can hear it
 - 10 questions for Annihilator’s Jeff Waters
 - Audified moves into hardware with the ‘hybrid’ Synergy R1 reverb/saturator
 - Godsticks’ Darran Charles: this is my essential guitar gear
 - Mitch Mitchell's '60s gear and more up for grabs
 - Jimi Hendrix’s Fuzz Face is going up for auction