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October 31
- Here's how you can win a masterclass with Steve White, a Yamaha EAD10 and a Recording Custom snare
October 30
- Exclusive performance: The Radiophonic Workshop's upcoming live show utilises the internet as one big tape delay. Get a sneak peek of the show here first
- "I have no interest in copying what I've already done, copying is no fun": Dave Smith on relaunching the Prophet-5, choosing his favourite synth and why he misses techno
- Ernie Ball Music Man updates the Jason Richardson Cutlass with spectacular Rorschach Red Buckeye Burl finish
- Jordan Rudess on being named the greatest synth player of all time: “I’m honoured to be included here with so many of my synth heroes”
- L-Acoustics and JH Audio have collaborated on high-end in-ear monitors for personal and pro-audio use
- Producer Masterclass - Fourward: "I don't care if the processing is correct or not. My only rule is that it has to sound good"
- An AC/DC fan payed $28,000 for a guitar lesson from Angus Young and ended up jamming for hours with the band
- Amazon is selling guitar pedals for under £40
- Paul Davids shows you how to set your guitar up with his 5-step guide
- Jon Gomm interview: "The Internet helps you to learn anything you want, but it might not help you to know what you need"
- AmpliTube 5 uncovered: a world exclusive look at the making of IK Multimedia’s new amp modelling powerhouse
- BT's favourite synths of all time: "For nuance, expressive performance and playability it's probably the most elegant, lively sounding instrument I've ever played"
- Fatboy Slim on You've Come a Long Way, Baby: "At this point, I’d cracked the big ‘drug build’"
- The 30 greatest synth players of all time: keyboard wizards, programming gurus and sound design legends
- The track: Right Now by Joachim Pastor - "I try sometimes to use sounds that I don’t like"
- IK Multimedia at MTS 2020
- Producer Masterclass - Joe Ford: “I learned sound design purely through trial and error. My patience is extremely short”
- The track MTS 2020 special: Machinedrum's The Relic feat. Rochelle Jordan
- Producer masterclass - Solardo: “If you add something minuscule, but you can actually hear it being added, it keeps your brain interested, it keeps you interested in the track itself"
- Mixed In Key @ MTS 2020
- Producer Masterclass - Metrik: “I sold my PlayStation to buy a pair of belt-drive turntables, which was quite a sacrifice”
- Producer Masterclass - Icicle: “Some people ask me ‘what’s the secret?’... but I do it exactly the same way you do it!”
- Producer Masterclass - Feed Me: “I put some stuff online, and the next morning I had a message from deadmau5!”
- Producer Masterclass - Freemasons: “Many producers develop the beginning of an idea, but won’t take it further”
- Producer Masterclass - C.A.R.: “ If I know too much, maybe those happy accidents won’t happen”
- Producer Masterclass - Sub Focus: “Working with VSTs seemed quite natural for me, but for a lot of hardware producers, it was a difficult transition”
- Producer Masterclass - Ivy Lab: “These days, the average plugin sometimes feels a bit over the top”
- Producer Masterclass - Beardyman: “I enjoy making tracks live in real time, as it’s a great way of capturing the moment”
- Build a groove from scratch with Maxim Lany: "If you balance those things first, that’s when the magic happens"
- Producer masterclass - Philth: “There a million videos online where people will talk to you about how to EQ... I've tried to talk about what happens before that"
- Producer masterclass - Netsky: “Get your own samples, don't copy or ask friends"
- So you want to be a... videogames composer: La Hacienda Creative's Brian D'Oliveira
October 29
- NUX's Duotime Dual-Delay Engine is a compact stereo delay offering five flavours of repeats
- Tom Morello is releasing a new five-track EP featuring Slash and a tribute to Eddie Van Halen
- Moog brings back the Werkstatt-01, a $199 DIY analogue synth with a classic sound
- Modal Electronics invites you to ‘go beyond the limits of analogue’ with its new Cobalt8 synth
- Thou guitarist Andy Gibbs: 5 players who blew my mind
- Kemper brings hot new overdrives into play on Profiler FX in its latest update
- AmpliTube 5 has lift-off, as IK Multimedia unveils the next edition of its flagship guitar amp and effects modelling software
October 28
- See the trailer for new Frank Zappa film - the first all-access documentary on his life
- Luna Guitars does not spare the abalone on the eye-catching Fauna Phoenix electro-acoustic
- D'Angelico announces limited edition Deluxe Series guitars with premium tonewoods and all-new finishes
- Hadouken! Teenage Engineering and Capcom launch Street Fighter and Mega Man Pocket Operators
- Are new Epiphone guitar models coming? It certainly looks like it!
- The 15 best rock drummers of all time - as voted for by you!
- Yamaha launches a wireless THR desktop amplifier for acoustic guitarists
- "I’m ecstatic" – Tool's Adam Jones talks to us about his new 1979 Gibson Les Paul Custom signature guitar
- Dave Smith confirms that there’s a problem with the new Prophet 5 and Prophet 10 synths: “We screwed up”
- Get two classic Marshall tones from one pedal with LPD Pedal's Eighty7 preamp/overdrive
- Go beyond the blues with this pentatonic scale guitar solo lesson over major chords
October 27
- David Hasselhoff throws the horns and goes Through The Night with his new heavy metal project
- See the 14 stunning Jackson and Charvel 2020 EMEA Custom Shop Event guitars
- M-Audio adds two compact and affordable pro-quality monitors to its BX series
- Big savings and free gifts up for grabs in the Positive Grid Halloween Monster sale
- Shure unveils its first XLR/USB hybrid design – the MV7 Podcast Microphone
- Roland announces the TD-07KV affordable mesh head-equipped V-Drums kit
- British synth designer Chris Huggett, creator of the Wasp and OSCar, has died
- Harley Benton's CG-45E is a stunning grand concert electro-acoustic that costs under £100
- Mix SoundCloud tracks offline with the company’s new DJ subscription service
October 26
- Just $6 buys you this open-source MIDI synth – but you'll need a 3D printer
- Mike Dawes covers Jump on acoustic guitar in tribute to Eddie Van Halen
- Is this an AmpliTube 5 teaser?
- Dunable Guitars is raffling a stunning EVH tribute Yeti for Roadie Relief
- Godin unveils the Multiac Grand Concert Deluxe – a hybrid nylon-string cutaway for flamenco and percussive players
- Jack White bought a Fender Custom Shop Stratocaster for a busker after a woman smashed his guitar in the street
October 23
- "You can never go back and make something great again. You can make something great now” – an interview with Perry Farrell
- How the Shure SM57 became an industry standard microphone – from presidential duties to pop
- Pioneering drummer Viola Smith has died, aged 107
- John Frusciante confirms the Red Hot Chili Peppers are writing new material
- Wide Blue Sound launches new two-layer flagship synth, Elysium
- Compose your own film score with Abbey Road One: Orchestral Foundations
- Harley Benton embraces the dark side with its new TE-20HH SBK guitar
October 22
- Paul Reed Smith's personally spec'd Private Stock Paul's 85 guitar surfaces
- Modus–Jeff Russo is a unique set of scoring tools that was used to create the sound of Star Trek
- Moog’s new Claravox Centennial Theremin could be the ultimate hands-off instrument
- "The pinnacle of headroom" – Darkglass Electronics unveil Microtubes 500v2 and Alpha Omega 500 bass amps
- The Big Issue is auctioning 9 unique artist-customised Fender Stratocasters to support its vendors over winter
- Squeeze’s Chris Difford - 10 albums that changed my life: “C’mon… who wouldn’t want to be in a band like The Who?”
- Canadian musician Angie C just used a brainwave-reader to play the monster analogue synth TONTO with her mind
- Flywheel promises all the “special sauce” of reel-to-reel tape in a simple and affordable VST plugin
- Issue 363 of Future Music is on sale now
- Signature is a new VST synth plugin that’s dedicated to R&B and hip-hop sounds
- AC/DC's Angus Young reveals what his favourite SG is in first podcast appearance
October 21
- The UK live music industry is set to lose more than 160,000 jobs by Christmas
- Paul McCartney announces McCartney III album – tracking vocals, bass, drums and guitar himself
- Texas Toast Guitars' triple-necked T-Style "The Hater Maker" wins the Great Guitar Build Off 2020
- 10 of the greatest Gibson archtop guitar tones of all time
- “There was something very special about receiving Mark Knopfler’s raw guitar files”: How Whispering Bob's Allstars recorded Stand By Me for charity in lockdown
- The greatest synth player of all time to be announced at The Music Technology Show 2020!
- Peavey is making its HP 2 guitar again following Eddie Van Halen's death
- Solar Guitars unveils a frosty new shred machine
- Fender's new interactive online guide offers a personal touch to find the right gear for you
October 20
- Hands-on demo: Fender's American Professional II could be the last guitar you ever buy
- Spencer Davis of The Spencer Davis Group dies aged 81 – former bandmate Steve Winwood pays tribute
- SolidGoldFX's NU-33 Vinyl Engine will make your tone "warble, glitch, bend and break in all the right ways"
- Audio engineer David Strickland: "Hip-hop is indigenous culture in a modern form"
- Novation and Aphex Twin launch the AFX Station synth, but it’s not as new as you might think
- Steve Perry confirms that Eddie Van Halen's guacamole ruined his jacket but said he wasn't crying afterwards
- Could you be the Bassist of the Year?
- A pair of electric guitars played and customised by Eddie Van Halen to be auctioned off in December
- Jamahook is a VST/AU plugin that ‘listens’ to your DAW project and then suggests samples that could make it better
- Behringer’s ARP 2600 clone will cost just $599, but when will you be able to get hold of one?
- Eddie Van Halen’s Eruption played on two Stylophones simultaneously is the best thing you’ll see today
October 19
- MonoNeon talks new Fender American Professional II basses and how working with Prince inspired his own music
- Sunnaudio's Nucleus NU-1 is dual boost preamp with two flavours of drive on tap
- Waves unveils the V12 update for its entire range of plugins: resizable interfaces, faster preset browsing and retina-ready graphics
- 6 tips on playing percussive electric guitar with Manuel Gardner Fernandes
- The new US-made Oltre Series from Fano Guitars offers dozens of custom finish options
- Modbap Modular's Per4mer is a Eurorack effects module for ”DJ-style live improvisation” and the modular-curious
- A dream collaboration: John Petrucci signature beard oil is now available
- Erica Synths’ Syntrx could be the closest we'll get to a new Synthi AKS
- Wampler's new mini overdrives are packing big features into small pedals
- Sick of complex reverb plugins? D16 thinks that Spacerek could be the answer
- Felix Martin performs a Star Wars medley on an eight-string acoustic guitar
October 17
- Watch Eddie Van Halen's final concert with Van Halen – featuring soundboard audio
- Here are 5 videos that hilariously reimagine the Phil Collins In The Air Tonight fill
October 16
- Harley Benton announces three new guitar effects pedal power supplies
- Build your own ukulele with this $20 kit from Harley Benton
- Win a £500 Amazon voucher from Focusrite
- Nik Kershaw - 10 songs that changed my life: “It suddenly occurred to me that I was listening to the perfect pop record”
- Erae Touch promises to be the expressive MIDI 2.0 controller that does it all
- Guitar previously owned by John Lennon and George Harrison sells for $300,000
- The GigRig raises the bar on effects pedal switching systems with the G3
- Austrian Audio’s OC818 is a next-gen microphone system with a vintage heart
October 15
- Klevgrand shakes things up with the Skaka percussion plugin
- Shure at MTS 2020
- EastWest Sounds at MTS 2020
- Krotos Audio at MTS 2020
- Roland at MTS 2020
- Yamaha at MTS 2020
- oeksound at MTS 2020
- Fender's CEO tried - and failed - to buy David Gilmour's '#0001 Strat'
- Pioneer DJ thinks that the DJM-S11 battle mixer should be scratch DJs’ weapon of choice
- Korg drops the new Hybrid synth into its Module 4 app, and you can use it in Gadget, too
- Dirty Filter is a free VST plugin that promises distorted audio deviance
October 14
- “Bernard Edwards gave me the dirtiest look...” Nile Rodgers talks Strats with us
- "It’s given me an opportunity to reconnect properly with the guitar" – Jimmy Page talks lockdown and future plans
- Danelectro has announced a new Baby Sitar in Vintage Aqua and we want one
- Why now is the time to claim a Yamaha SG for your guitar collection
October 13
- Fender sets its new standard with the American Professional II guitar series
- Learn how to use Add9 arpeggios in your playing with this guitar lesson
- Get the best from your modeller and profiler with the Laney LFR-212 powered cab
October 12
- The 10 different ways Eddie Van Halen made guitar great
- Download Ableton Live 10 Lite for free, courtesy of Splice
- 1010music’s Bluebox lets you record, mix and sync your electronic music gear without going near your DAW
- The transition to MIDI 2.0 should be a “smooth crossfade”, says MMA President, as work continues on new features and backwards compatibility
- Forget the iPhone 12 - the big news is that Apple silicon Macs could be announced in November
October 11
- Bill Bruford is selling a LOT of gear: here’s how you can buy it
October 10
- Learn open voice chords and blues double stops with these great guitar lessons from Justus West
October 9
- Harley Benton's new SC-Special guitar offers classic P-90 pickup power
- Who is the best rock drummer of all time?
- Fender's Hypebeast Stratocaster revealed
- The MP MIDI Controller is now available for pre-order: are you ready to take your plugins outside the box?
- Share your favourite Casio musical instrument memory and get a free fanzine to mark 40 years of its synths, pianos and keyboards
- George Michael’s estate sends John Lennon’s Imagine piano to Strawberry Field to mark the late Beatle’s 80th birthday
- PreSonus’s PD-70 podcasting mic is designed to capture clear speech and nothing else
- Native Instruments’ Super 8 analogue polysynth breaks free of Reaktor to run as a VST/AU plugin
- Joe Bonamassa's Epiphone Black Beauty Les Paul replica released: "You just play this thing into the ground"
October 8
- Brian May rig tour: “Brian’s not going to use a Fractal rackmount and in-ears; he wants to hear three screaming AC30s behind him thumping him in the back”
- Music Technology Show 2020: Exhibitor A-Z
- This free Roland TR-808 and TB-303 online studio is here to kill your productivity
- Vote now for the greatest synth sound of all time!
- It looks like Novation and Aphex Twin are working on something together, but what is it?
- 6 guitar tricks you can learn from Eddie Van Halen
October 7
- Don't miss Mark Guiliana's Zildjian live stream tomorrow, Oct 8th
- Harley Benton reveals its new Blast t-style guitar models with Filtertron pickups
- Nile Rodgers demos the Fender Acoustasonic Strat with new song
- Festival Of Guitar 2020 featuring Chris Buck, Kirk Fletcher and Josh Smith offering free tickets
- AC/DC are officially back with new single Shot In The Dark
- This super-cheap FX plugin promises ‘the Drake underwater sound’ in just a few clicks
October 6
- 5 songs guitarists need to hear by… Eddie Van Halen
- "The ultimate guitar hero" – Blackmore, Page, Schenker, May, Satriani, Vai and more pay tribute to Eddie Van Halen
- Here’s why every producer needs to try Reason, whether or not they have another DAW
- Guitar legend Eddie Van Halen dies age 65
- Akai’s standalone Force music production box gets a new track arranger, enhanced MIDI options and Ableton Live project import
- Fender announces new signature model for Queens Of The Stone age guitarist
- The beginner's guide to: dubstep
October 5
- Zultan launches new Impulz cymbal set
- Lego Strat officially announced
- Thys on the end of Noisia and going solo: "Staying together was becoming more of an effort and less natural"
- Harley Benton demos its impressively spec'd Amarok 6 and 7-string guitars
- Bassist Charlie Jones on why a wedding gig is tougher than playing Black Dog with Page & Plant
- Cherry Audio’s DCO-106 synth plugin is a juiced-up Juno-106 that won’t put the squeeze on your wallet
October 3
- Here's how you can get 4 months of Amazon Music Unlimited for $/£0.99
October 2
- "You have to learn to fail efficiently - because you're going to fail" – Devin Townsend's shares his real world advice for musicians
- Steven Slate says that your mixing environment is 'probably lying to you’ as he launches the VSX headphone monitoring system
- Coming soon: The Music Technology Show 2020!
- 6 songs guitarists need to hear by… Def Leppard
- iZotope’s Neoverb plugin ‘listens’ to your music and promises to be the smartest reverb in town
- JHS pedals launch surprise $99 guitar effects pedal 3 Series
- Brent Mason on the story behind his famous triple-pickup Telecaster: "Being kinda broke... I couldn't afford two or three guitars at the same time"
October 1
- Sequential announces a new Prophet-5, a faithful reboot of one of the greatest synths of all time
- The perfect size acoustic guitar? Taylor introduces the mid-scale GT
- Meinl expands Byzance Foundry Reserve series with five new cymbal models
- Maschine+, Komplete 13 and Guitar Rig 6 Pro land in the Native Instruments shop, and there’s a free Maschine software update, too
- Learn guitar and bass with 3 months of free Fender Play lessons
- Ian Curtis's Joy Division Vox Phantom VI Special guitar is up for auction
- Reason’s Europa synth is the first third-party plugin for Amped Studio, the online DAW
- Hughes & Kettner's new Spirit Nano Heads could be affordable micro marvels
- Best computer monitors for music production: Broaden your horizons with a DAW-friendly display
- Living Colour's Will Calhoun moves to Gretsch drums
- Boss lifts the lid on new multi effects processor the GT-1000CORE and RC-5, flagship RC-500 Loop Station pedals
- Roland adds the TR-6S and TR-06 to its drum machine line-up, and offers a TR-606 plugin as well