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November 30
- Fleetwood Mac's Christine McVie dies, aged 79
- Ibanez announce two new Polyphia signature model versions for Tim Henson and Scott LePage
- Do you want to know your 'music listening personality'? Spotify Wrapped 2022 will tell you
- Death Angel guitarist Rob Cavestany and Jackson collaborate on signature model with unique body shape
- The Plus version of the free BPB Dirty Filter plugin offers more flavours of filth and increased control
- Johnny Marr's choice for the greatest guitarist of all time is surprising - and his new pedalboard is too
- The synth sounds of Michael Jackson's Thriller (and how to recreate them in your DAW)
- 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!"
- John Legend shares Spatial Audio piano versions of songs from his latest album on Apple Music
- Host, sequence and record your AUv3 plugins with a new music-making app, SAND
- Alesis owner inMusic ordered to pay Roland $4.6m for infringing electronic drum kit patents
- Bat metal: scientists say mammals use the same ventricular folds to make noises as death metal vocalists
- See the trailer for the new John Scofield documentary Inside Scofield
November 29
- 5 things we learned about James Hetfield from his candid interview with The New Yorker
- Paul Reed Smith says the theory that pickups are all that matter to tone and wood choice is irrelevant is “just not true”
- Apple Music reboots its Replay experience and steals a march on Spotify Wrapped
- See Martin Miller and his session band cover Metallica, RHCP, Bryan Adams, Alice Chains, Radiohead and Lenny Kravitz in a '90s medley
- Peter Green’s 1967 Matamp head from his early Fleetwood Mac days is up for sale
- Waves’ new BB Tubes saturation plugin comes with Beauty and Beast knobs for giving your mixes a fairy tale finish
- The new Darkglass Duality DFZ pedal has two fuzz circuits
- Billy Duffy says the “fantastically underrated” Mike Campbell inspired his lead playing on the Cult’s new album, Under The Midnight Sun
- Nine-year-old guitarist Maya Neelakantan covers 15 Tool songs in a medley on the signature Les Paul Adam Jones gifted her
- Hear David Gilmour play guest lead guitar on new Donovan song Rock Me
- “Sometimes there’s songs that get put aside until it feels right” – the story of The White Stripes' Dead Leaves On The Dirty Ground
- Ableton co-founder Robert Henke on the origins of Ableton Live: “We just thought that our concept of a more performance-focused sequencing system would be interesting for a small group of people”
- Check out Michael Angelo Batio and Joey DeMaio’s ridiculously fast 275bpm Manowar shred warm-up routine
- 6 affordable DIY modules to get started building a modular synth for less
- Band-Maid's new video for their instrumental track From Now On brings their sublime musicianship to the fore
- Dorian Concept: “I’ve got a complicated, love-hate relationship with the Microkorg - it's often the case with the first big one”
- Challenge Thomann to write a song in Random Access Melodies
November 28
- New study reveals the most searched for effects pedal brand in each US state
- The prices on these new release Harley Benton MV-4MSB Gotoh short-scale basses seem like a late a Cyber Monday bargain
- Waves’ crazy Cyber Monday sale includes plugins from only $5.99 - stock up while you can
- These are the 7 price-dropped iZotope plugins we're buying this Cyber Monday
- Struggling to find a great Cyber Monday deal on a new piano? We've found 4 worth shouting about
- Metallica release new song Lux Æterna, confirm album 72 Seasons and tour
- Build an entire home studio for less than £500 with these 3 Cyber Monday deals
- The key Andertons electric guitar deals available until the end of Cyber Monday
- Cyber Monday iPad deals live blog: our pick of the biggest iPad Pro, Mini and Air savings online right now
- Cyber Monday Andertons 2022 deals are still out there: loads of Christmas deals now available
- Thomann Cyber Monday deals 2022: the deals are over for another year
- Cyber Monday plugin deals 2022: these music software deals are still live
- Plea to raise funds for bionic 'Hero Arm' to help teenager to fulfil her dream of playing the guitar
- Get a great bass guitar tone every time with Trondheim Audio Devices’ SkarBassOne pedal
November 27
- Masterclass's two-for-one deal lets you and a friend learn from everyone from Mariah to Morello, but it ends on Cyber Monday
- Whisper it, but one of the cheapest Black Friday iPad deals is still available on Cyber Monday
- Save over 65% on Output's epic plugin bundle this Cyber Weekend - as used by Kendrick Lamar and the makers of Stranger Things
November 26
- Level up your home recording for less this Cyber Weekend with these bargain studio bundles
- Black Friday studio headphone deals 2022: today's top deals on over-ear and in-ear monitors for producers and musicians
- Black Friday studio monitor deals 2022: today's top deals on active speakers of all sizes
November 25
- What is the best new Eurorack gear of 2022?
- Become the guitarist you always wanted to be with 50% off a Fender Play annual subscription this Black Friday
- Black Friday MacBook deals live blog: the cheapest Apple MacBook Pros and MacBook Airs online right now
- Plugin Boutique Black Friday deals: save big AND grab FREE software this weekend
- Old Blood Noise Endeavors unveils the stompbox that turns back time, the BL-44 Reverse Variable Clock Effector
- 5 underrated Jimi Hendrix songs guitarists need to hear
- Cableguys’ ShaperBox 3.1 plugin adds a new Oscilloscope Tool, and you can get it for a bargain price this Black Friday
- Snag this free Waves plugin - and take advantage of their killer Black Friday savings while you're at it
- Plini and Rabea Massaad have just made a track together and it is a little slice of nirvana for prog-guitar superfans
- Watch Sophie Lloyd light up the fretboard in the video for her blistering new single, Do Or Die
- These are our favourite Cyber Weekend guitar effects pedal deals right now
- Gear4music Black Friday deals 2022: the official sale is still live
- Harley Benton and Thomann Black Friday guitar and bass bargains: we've found the highlights
- Polyphia’s Scott LePage: “There is a small aspect of, ‘OK, this needs to be performable.’ But sometimes we just do cool shit for the sake of doing cool shit and worry about it later”
- Black Friday microphone deals 2022: top deals still out there on condenser, dynamic, and USB mics
- Thomann Black Friday deals 2022: save up to 60% off in their Cyber Week sale, which is still live now!
- Black Friday Andertons 2022 deals are still out there: the best deals from their biggest sale
- The Andertons Black Friday sale is live and there's guitar bargains galore to be found
- Black Friday plugin deals 2022: You can still make massive Black Friday music software savings - these deals are still live
November 24
- New Exoverb reverb plugin promises to create ‘spatial’ depth in your stereo mixes
- reFX releases Vanguard 2: much-loved soft synth returns from the plugin grave
- 6 stupidly expensive vintage synths and 6 bargain alternatives you can actually afford
- The all-new MF-109S Saturator is a “free gift” for Moogerfooger plugin owners
- Classic interview with Wilko Johnson and Norman Watt-Roy: “We were packing places out because we were so different from whatever else was happening”
- Ryan Adams has covered the whole of Bruce Springsteen's Nebraska album and he's giving it away
November 23
- Jamie Lenman on Nine Inch Nails, nu metal and the 10 albums that changed his life – plus playing every instrument on his new one
- Andrew Huang pitches his $10 Flip app against the $2,000 OP-1 Field, and his findings might surprise you
- Korg heads back to the ‘90s and ‘00s as it adds microKorg, Electribe and Kaoss Pad plugins to version 4 of its software collection
- Dave Mustaine says Lars Ulrich wrote the opening riff to Metallica’s Master of Puppets
- Black Friday Dell deals 2022: Major savings on XPS laptops and desktops
- Sonicware’s Liven Lofi-12 groovebox takes you back to the gritty days of old-school ‘80s samplers
- Hawxx: "We definitely have an awareness that the metal and rock scene has a really long way to go in terms of diversity and being a safe gig space for women, trans people and non-binary people"
- Wilko Johnson, Dr Feelgood guitarist and six-string pioneer, dies aged 75
- SampleRadar: 485 free tape treated samples
- Newfangled Audio says that its Invigorate plugin is a bus compressor like no other
- MESA/Boogie adds a 25-watt head and combo to its mighty Badlander amp lineup
- 8 ways to work smarter and save money in the studio
- Cherry Audio releases the GX-80, a new synth plugin that emulates the Yamaha CS-80 and the monster keyboard that came before it
- "There were guitar players weeping, they had to mop the floor up. He was piling it on, solo after solo" – how Jimi Hendrix and Eric Clapton changed guitar forever
- Cherry Audio's GX-80 is more than a replicant, and much more than just a CS-80 emulation
November 22
- Stage invader at Black Crowes show proves hard to handle, gets a guitar to the face
- Origin has unveiled its second overdrive pedal of 2022 with the M-EQ Driver and it could be a late winner
- Zayn Malik looks set to release a ‘collaboration’ with Jimi Hendrix just days before what would have been the guitarist’s 80th birthday
- Mixed In Key’s Pilot Plugins feature a cast of AI avatars who will help you generate new MIDI and audio files
- Music industry has become less diverse since 2020, study finds: "We must not take our foot off the accelerator when it comes to driving positive change"
- Valhalla DSP’s free Supermassive plugin gets 2 new modes that “sound good on everything”
- Elvis Presley's 1968 Fender Telecaster rosewood prototype just went up for sale
- Who are the five nominees for Producer of the Year at the 2023 Grammy Awards?
November 21
- Watch Christone "Kingfish" Ingram play Jimi's Red House... on the roof of Hendrix's last-known house
- Add some ‘plip, plop, pop’ to your sound with AudioThing’s Bubbles filterbank plugin
- “The wait is nearly over”: Cherry Audio channels Vangelis as it teases its “new flagship synthesizer”
- Avid's Black Friday deals just dropped and there are major discounts on Pro Tools, Sibelius and Media Composer
- Save up to 80% on a vast range of music software with Thomann’s epic Cyber Week Download Deals
- Steve Vai to reveal long-shelved Gash album, loses Dave Weiner from band
- What is the best new drum machine or sampler of 2022?
- John Frusciante reveals how Rick Rubin influenced his guitar playing
- Stevie Wonder and Charlie Puth duel on grand pianos as they honour Lionel Richie by leading a star-studded performance of We Are The World at the AMAs
- The Theremotion is an open-source instrument that reinvents the Theremin
- Jack White covers Nirvana's Heart-Shaped Box live, has strong words for Elon Musk
- Pole: "I’ve learned to appreciate mistakes - the weird, mosquito-sounding synth on this track was a result of my Minimoog dying"
November 18
- Joe Satriani says he and Hank Williams could have made some “great music together” as he offers classy response to Bob Dylan
- Spitfire Audio thinks that it’s created the “definitive” Wurlitzer electric piano plugin
- Gibson doubles size of its Bozeman, Montana acoustic guitar factory, citing booming demand
- Devin Townsend explains why he hates music biopics: “I don’t have a lot of love for the mythos of rock musicians”
- Waldorf’s Streichfett synth plugin brings that ‘70s adult movie sound to your DAW
- Thomann’s ultra affordable Harley Benton guitars just got even cheaper for Black Friday - here's 8 of the best deals
- Neural DSP supremo Doug Castro named Finland’s 2022 EY Entrepreneur Of The Year
- Ujam says that its free Drive synth plugin is as easy to use as an Instagram filter
- Charvel reveals new Marco Sfogli signature guitar
- Fender rolls out J Mascis Signature Jazzmaster pickup set
- Hear Johnny Marr reunite with Smiths bandmate Andy Rourke for new music
- Full Bucket Music flexes its PECS, a free plugin version of the Korg PE-2000 Poly-Ensemble string machine
- Ataxia: “The Roland SH-101 is the building block of almost every Ataxia song. There is no oddity this synth can’t help you explore”
November 17
- Dave Mustaine reveals failed James Hetfield musical reunion: "we were talking about getting back together and doing a project”
- Sequential unveils the Trigon-6, Dave Smith’s final synth: “We believe it continues his legacy”
- “You wouldn’t exactly hear Bon Jovi writing about a church in Blythburgh, would you?” – the story of Black Shuck by The Darkness
- The iconic Moog Minimoog Model D synth is back in production and looking better than ever
- Teenage Engineering’s OP-1 Field didn’t have a velocity-sensitive keyboard, but it does now
- Issue 390 of Future Music is out now
- 5 Dimebag Darrell Pantera songs guitarists need to hear
- Jim Root fans could be very interested in Harley Benton's new £140 JA-20HH guitar
- 7 of the best guitar cover versions of Prince's Purple Rain
- 3 months of UAD Spark for only 99¢: Black Friday deal gives you use of 19 top-quality Universal Audio native plugins for less than a dollar
- Perfect your mixes fast with Focusrite's FAST Bundle
November 16
- Denon DJ drops SC Live controllers: DJ without a laptop and mix tracks direct from Amazon Music Unlimited
- Beyonce and Bonobo vie for Best Dance/Electronic Album and Recording Grammys
- Best guitar tuners 2023: from tuning pedals and clip-ons, to guitar tuning apps
- Toto’s David Paich on the making of Africa: “We had fun with it like The Beatles did, made a loop, adding instruments one at a time, and then it just took off”
- SampleRadar: 257 free artificial metal samples
- Get your vocals in tune for 65% less with Antares’ massive Auto-Tune Cyber Sale, and grab a free plugin worth $179
- Rode’s new NT-USB+ microphone offers easy plug-and-play recording and next-gen features
- Hudson Mohawke reveals his favourite synths: "Some would say it's a second fiddle to the classic Moog sound, but I lean towards the Prophet"
- Best guitars for beginners 2023: become a star in the making with 9 beginner-friendly acoustic and electric guitars
November 15
- Watch Julian Lage play Seven Come Eleven on Charlie Christian’s 1940 Gibson ES-250
- Save 20% on all versions of Ableton Live and the Push MIDI controller
- Ernie Ball Music Man unleashes the Kaizen – its Tosin Abasi multi-scale 7-string with an “infinity radius” fingerboard and Heat Treated humbuckers
- Best in drums 2022 - vote now!
- Teenage Engineering’s OP-Z is being used to power an interactive AI art installation inspired by the synesthesia phenomenon
- Native Instruments and iZotope have joined forces for the biggest Cyber Season sale yet - up to 75% off Massive, Ozone and more
- Zakk Wylde says he has had to buy his first ever noise gate for Pantera reunion shows because Dimebag’s insatiable appetite for gain is so hard to control
- Mask 1 shows its face: new ‘bitmasking’ polyphonic digital synth exhibited in public for the first time
- Watch Tosin Abasi’s jaw-dropping demo of a prototype Abasi Concepts compressor pedal that makes notes “feel like they're popping”
- Best PCs for music production 2023: Apple Macs and desktop computers for your home studio
- This mashup of Men At Work's Down Under and Metallica's One is a thing of wonder
- "The smell of Abbey Road. Actually, it's the smell of fear!" Elton John, Paul McCartney, Nile Rodgers and more discuss the world's most famous recording studio in new documentary
- Top Nashville guitarist Guthrie Trapp just shared an essential lesson on 5 classic blues riffs to learn
- "Brutal" impact of cost of living crisis: 9 in 10 musicians concerned about affording food, while half consider leaving music industry altogether
- Aodyo’s Anyma Omega puts physical modelling into a hybrid hardware synth
- Audiomodern's Loopmix changes the way you use loops
November 14
- FKJ reveals the free plugin that he says is his “favourite digital distortion”
- Make music anywhere with BLUE LAVA Original Guitar
- Should I buy music software on Black Friday?
- Bag big Black Friday iZotope savings including Neutron and Ozone at Plugin Boutique - up to 80% off
- Bleass’s Megalit plugin promises to be the power synth that even ‘non-technical’ musicians can use
- Thundercat joins Gorillaz on stage at the 2022 MTV EMAs, as Taylor Swift takes home four awards
- Best electronic drum sets 2023: top picks for every playing level and budget
- Kurt Cobain's smashed 1973 Fender Mustang sells for nearly half a million dollars at auction – and his distortion pedal goes for $75,000
- How to have a number one song in 2022: keep it short, don’t use a key change and write in 4/4
- How does a £69.99 overdrive pedal from Tone City compare to the Analog Man King Of Tone?
- The ultimate beginner's guide to extreme effects and plugins
- Nova Twins, Skunk Anansie and Loathe among artists nominated in new Alternative Music category for the MOBO Awards 2022
- 4 unexpected places to find samples for your music
- Flying Lotus and Thundercat engineer Daddy Kev's guide to compression
- Simply Piano makes learning piano simple
November 12
- Guitarist Keith Levene, founding member of The Clash and PiL, has died aged 65
November 11
- Get two month's of Loopcloud loveliness and a free synth for just $/£2 ahead of Black Friday
- GEWA launches G3 Series Studio 5 electronic drum set
- Billy Gibbons to play Jimi Hendrix’s Isle of Wight Gibson Flying V on Jimmy Kimmel Live
- Nuno Bettencourt tells the story of Extreme's More Than Words: "The melody was dictating where the chords were going. I remember telling Gary, ‘Look, I’ve got something pretty interesting here'"
- Air | Music Edition is free plugin that promises to give your music more depth and space
- Supro expands Royale tube amp series with 50-watt head and 1x12 cab, promising its “most dynamically responsive, feature-packed, high-headroom amplifier to date”
- Coheed & Cambria guitarist Travis Stever on his love of Van Halen, the 10 albums that changed his life and new band L.S Dunes
- "If you're bored of laptop, you're bored of life": Fred Again lifts the lid on his love of in-the-box production
- RipX DeepCreate is a recording playground that treats audio and MIDI as one
- Xotic brings back a pedalboard classic with the 20th Anniversary RC Booster
- Watch Jeff Beck perform Link Wray’s rock ’n’ roll classic Rumble on a Fender American Vintage II 1957 Stratocaster
- Ex-GNR manager Alan Niven explains why Slash is a guitar god: “Great players revere the space between their notes”
- Teenage Engineering’s MIDI wooden doll choir is the most baffling music tech product of the year
- 30 of the best electronic albums of the past 30 years (and how they were made)
November 10
- Unholy moly: Soundation has remade Sam Smith and Kim Petras’s huge hit in its online DAW
- 7 simple chord tricks to make you a better guitar player
- Want to start DJing? Pioneer DJ says that its DDJ-FLX4 controller makes it easy to learn
- ZZ Top perform Got Me Under Pressure with a 17-string bass guitar
- Waves' early Black Friday sale now includes 90 massively discounted plugins
- Donner is back with the DDP-200, another classy-looking digital piano
- Four Tet requests cracked plugin on Twitter and slams iLok licensing system: "I can't work like that"
- Behringer’s Bi-Phase is now the Dual-Phase, but it still looks very similar to Mu-Tron’s classic hardware
- Kiko Loureiro reveals the biggest challenge of playing guitar in Megadeth and being a southpaw playing right-handed
- Korg takes the Minilogue polysynth to deep, dark places with a new limited edition Bass version
- The Boss FS-1-WL Wireless Footswitch wants to make your life easier
November 9
- Eventide reveals the H90 multi-fx pedal with 62 effects including new algorithms
- A new way of doing things. Take your audio seriously with Audient’s EVO audio interface range
- Progressive instrumental guitarist Jakub Zytecki's new song is worth the 'Wait'
- Daptone Records is selling-off classic analogue studio gear, including the Tascam tape machine used to record Amy Winehouse’s Black to Black
- See the stunning new selection of FSR Squier guitars in action
- macOS Ventura not currently so ace for computer music makers: check your DAW and plugin compatibility before you upgrade
- Auto-Tune Pro X promises faster pitch correction and new artist presets
- Grammy-winning audio engineer Daddy Kev reveals compression secrets in new book
- It sounds like Gibson's new Maestro pedals are good for grunge and alt rock tones
- Best digital pianos for beginners 2023: start playing with authentic sounds and feel
- Could iZotope’s free Audiolens software give you an easier way of making your own music sound like the tracks you love?
- How Aphex Twin made Selected Ambient Works 85-92
- Nazareth lead singer Dan McCafferty dies, aged 76
- 5 songs guitarists need to hear by the Grateful Dead
- Bob Weir says his stage fright is so bad it feels like “walking into a torture chamber”
November 8
- Best budget studio headphones 2023: top cheap headphone picks for every studio task
- Best MIDI keyboards 2023: Mac, PC and iOS keyboards for players, composers and producers
- Universal Audio releases a ‘vintage’ polysynth plugin and recreates the classic Motown reverb chambers
- Maestro adds five smart new pedals to its retro-cool Original Collection
- SoundLad Liverpool just released three new guitar and bass effects pedals – and one is a tribute to classic Beatles White album tones
- Novation’s Circuit Rhythm groovebox gets new arrangement, Beat Match, Fixed Length Recording and Grid FX features
- Plugin Boutique has crazy savings on 25 Softube software titles ahead of Black Friday - up to 67% off
- Disco legend Cerrone: “Everyone at the studio was recording a Genesis album and they were looking at me like ‘What the f**k is this guy doing?’”
- Bones UK take the dogs – and a Stratocaster – for a walk around London in the video for new single Milk
- Best digital pianos 2023: options for every level and budget
- Low end theory: scientists confirm that bass gets us dancing
- High-end effects from Chase Bliss and Hologram Electronics are Reverb’s top-selling pedals of 2022
- Peter Gabriel confirms i/o European tour and new album: “It’s been a while”
- Best keyboards for beginners and kids 2023: Get started with our expert pick of beginner keyboards for all ages
- Teenage Engineering’s new craft lager is strictly for grown-ups
- Austrian Audio’s OC7 and OD5 could be the only instrument recording mics you need
- Waves’ massive Silver and Platinum bundles just hit their lowest price ever for the next 24 hours
- FaltyDL: "If you get a good solid decade in this industry that’s incredible - but after that you have to build your own playground to play in"
November 7
- Daft Punk’s Thomas Bangalter helped to fill the void left by the death of producer Philippe Zdar, say Phoenix: “he played a little bit of the same role”
- Get the sound of legendary recording studios with an amazing 66% pre-Black Friday discount on two IK Multimedia Reverbs
- "I never had Bonzo say, 'that's a great drum sound.' He'd just say, 'There's not enough 'frudge' on the bass drum'": Engineer Andy Johns on the recording of Led Zep IV
- How do we know Black Friday is coming? Because Waves is teasing a free plugin
- SampleRadar: 165 free euphoric trance samples
- Pedalboard tour: Chris Buck, Cardinal Black
- 'Lost' ARP synth demo kickstarts the Odyssey's 50th anniversary celebrations
- Synth legend Don Lewis, creator of LEO and consultant on the Roland TR-808, has died aged 81
- Why does everyone love the ARP Odyssey?
- 10 great things about the ARP Odyssey
- Sweet dreams are made as Eurythmics reunite for 3-song medley at the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame
- Tributes paid to Low drummer/vocalist Mimi Parker
November 6
- The 7 guitar highlights and sad revelation from the Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame 2022 ceremony
November 5
- Best beginner electronic drum sets 2023: affordable kits to get you started on your drumming journey
- Best budget studio monitors 2023: pocket-friendly home studio speakers, most pairs under $200/£200
- Best audio interfaces 2023: 21 USB and Thunderbolt options for Mac and PC across every budget
November 4
- Best laptops for music production 2023: portable computers for musicians, producers and DJs
- Best podcasting microphones 2023: our expert picks for every budget and level
- AKG at Recording Week 2022: Legendary audio brand AKG celebrates its 75th anniversary milestone
- Steve Vai explains why And We Are One is his “greatest accomplishment” on guitar
- Polymetric powers and TR-style sequencing await in the new LL8 2 Eurorack sequencer from Robaux
- Audiomodern's Loopmix promises to remix your sample library
- Best guitar amps 2023: Our pick of the best combos, heads and pedalboard amps for all budgets and abilities
- John Howes on the Nord Modular G2: "I spent months learning it, and I still only know 10% of what this machine is capable of - it's insane"
- Line 6 promises the “biggest sonic improvement to Helix” in its history with new 3.50 firmware update
- DW has unveiled its DWe acoustic/electronic drum set, here’s everything we know about it so far
- Devin Townsend replaced a track from his new album because of... Barbie Girl?
- Audialab's Emergent Drums infinitely generates unique drum samples using AI
- EarthQuaker Devices releases the Sunn O))) Life Pedal V3 – doom guitar tone connoisseurs rejoice
- 26 inspirational and practical ambient music production tips and tactics
- Vox are releasing four new Bobcat guitars into the wild and they're looking good
- Vox unveils new new finishes for its Mark III Mini guitars
November 3
- Sammy Hagar on Van Halen tribute tour woes: "Alex has got a stick up his ass about something with me still"
- How to diagnose and fix string and fret buzz on your acoustic guitar
- Buy a Focusrite Scarlett or Clarett+ audio interface and get free subscriptions to LANDR and Pro Tools
- Novation at Recording Week 2022: Made to Create
- Surf's up: The Beach Boys Collection is now available on Fender Play
- You can now buy Gibson, Epiphone, Kramer guitars directly in Germany, France, Ireland, Italy, Spain, Austria and Belgium
- Rock 'n' molar: Bite marks on Steinway grand piano likely to have been made by Thomas Edison, who used to ‘hear through his teeth’
- You can now customise your Spark amp with personalised speaker covers
- JBL promises professional performance from its new PRX900 portable PA systems
- How to build a studio career: Real World tips
- Positive Grid has dropped their Black Friday sale three weeks early - save big on the Spark, Spark Mini and Bias software
- Billy Corgan joins Laney amps and sits down with Perry Farrell for interview
- Apple's Logic Pro 10.7.5 adds free tempo recording, Ableton Link support and personalised Spatial Audio
- Best studio headphones 2023: expert picks for music production and mixing, tested
- Ritchie Blackmore: "Even in Deep Purple, towards the end, before I left, our music was a bit monophonic"
- Classic album: Dom & Roland on Industry
November 2
- PRS and Fender dominate the top-selling electric guitars on Reverb in 2022
- Donner goes big on value with its new Arena2000 guitar multi-effects pedal
- MOTU expands the M series with M6 USB-C audio interface
- RNBO just made it ten times easier for Max users to build plugins, guitar pedals and DIY hardware
- The story of Creedence Clearwater Revival's Bad Moon Rising: "A long time ago I adopted one of rock’s major tenets and stuck with it: be simple and speak powerfully”
- Cherry Audio dreams of electric sheep and teases the replication of a timeless classic
- Teenage Engineering OP-1 claims top spot on Reverb's best-selling gear list - for the fourth year in a row
- Your first session recording in a studio: 6 essential tips for success
- If you’re looking for a versatile microphone for the studio and live, AKG has got you covered
- The 10 music plugins we're hoping to see discounted this Black Friday
- "I am convinced this will be a total game-changer": Jean-Michel Jarre comes out punching for spatial audio
- Bruce Springsteen on the songs he's proudest of and his long road to success: "I had a lot of experience … I’d been playing everywhere for eight or nine years"
- The future is now: how Dolby Atmos is changing the way we make and listen to music
- Music theory basics: master cadences to develop your chord progressions
- Back to basics: the beginner's guide to headroom and levels
November 1
- Morley enters the guitar multi-effects fray with the all-analogue, retro-voiced AFX-1
- GForce’s odyssey continues as it releases the ARP-inspired Oddity3 synth plugin
- Lexii Lynn Frazier recorded her Top Gun Maverick guitar parts at home "on an old MacBook Air"
- Fender goes all in on hi-viz with the Neon Yellow signature Jazz Bass V for MonoNeon
- Ernie Ball Music Man celebrates 35 years of the StingRay 5 with stunning anniversary model now available to order
- J Mascis shows you the highlights of his guitar and pedal collection
- Plini is bringing an all-star prog guitar tour to the UK and Europe
- Listen to an AI-powered neural network 'sing' a cover of Dolly Parton's "Jolene"
- The legendary Soldano SLO amp is now available in pedal form!
- Power up your music for less with these recording essentials
- Dirty LA is a free compressor plugin that channels the LA-2A and other vintage limiting amps
- Boss unveils the SL-2 Slicer, a compact pedal creating rhythmic, percussive chop effects and textures for guitar, keys, DJs and more
- Best beginner electric guitars 2023: 10 top electric guitars for beginners
- Free music samples: download loops, hits and multis from SampleRadar
- SampleRadar: 260 free microloopers samples
- The MIDI Blaster is a light-up controller that enables you to control your effects just be tilting your hand
- "I AM IN SHAMBLES!": Taylor Swift on taking all top 10 slots of the Billboard 100 songs chart