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October 31
- Chris Shiflett on the overlooked key to becoming a better guitar player, making records the Nashville way and why he used an amp pedal for his solo tour
- Lode is a brilliantly simple free synth for Ableton Live and Push 3 that sounds a lot like the Roland TB-303
- “He insisted I bring my plexiglass guitar”: Nile Rodgers on Thomas Bangalter’s specific request when Daft Punk invited him into the studio to record Get Lucky
- DOD unveils the Chthonic Fuzz – a pedal “capable of the darkest, most potent fuzz to subtle touches of sonic grit and everywhere in between”
- Harley Benton launches trio of boutique-inspired tube amp heads priced from just £113 – and there is a Celestion-loaded 1X10 matching cab too
- Orchestral Tools new library features instruments that have never been sampled before
- Apple brings its new M3 chips to the MacBook Pro and iMac, promising to satisfy music makers and other creatives who have a need for more speed
- Gregg Kowalsky: "I was feeding all kinds of weird stuff into Ableton's audio-to-MIDI converter. Something just clicked, and I ended up building a whole album around it"
- Epiphone and Kirk Hammett team up for the Metallica guitarist’s signature 1979 Flying V – an affordable version of “one of the most important heavy metal guitars of all time”
- Korg Modwave mkII: what's new in the latest version of the hybrid wavetable monster synth?
- Musician plays all the parts to Muse classic Hysteria on a unique 'reversed' three-neck guitar
- Everything you need to know about Dolby Atmos and Spatial Audio - plus 10 unmissable Spatial Audio in Dolby Atmos tracks, and 3 to avoid…
- 8 recording tactics to work smarter and save money in the studio
- “Nebraska was cut on crap equipment… It wasn't a proper recording setup. It was also recorded by somebody who'd never recorded anything before”: How Bruce Springsteen recorded his most important album in his bedroom with just a Gibson J-200 and a TEAC 144
- “I’ve been chasing this sound for so long and it’s finally here now”: YouTuber spends 6 months making a replica of the aluminium guitar Kurt Cobain used to record In Utero, and it sounds incredible
October 30
- Ariana Grande joins drum community in paying tribute to Aaron Spears, who has died aged 47
- AI has predicted this year's Christmas number one, and it's more terrifying than AI itself
- Renowned session drummer Aaron Spears has died, aged 47
- Tiesto’s reimagining of Tears For Fears’ Everybody Wants to Rule the World is everything you thought it would be
- H.E.R plays a Charvel to join Foo Fighters for a sublime duet on their song The Glass
- Fall into Sweetwater's sweet fall deals
- Audiomovers is helping sound cross borders: "A mastering engineer said to us, 'thank you for single-handedly saving the music industry'"
- Roland's new augmented reality service lets you place a grand piano in your bathroom
- “Waves plugins enable me to bridge 40 years of Metallica into a single show”: live sound engineer Greg Price on the software that helps to power the M72 world tour
- Trevor Rabin interview: "When I went to do this album, I just wanted to do everything I love"
- “Now you can have fun playing spot the difference”: Imogen Heap shares photos of her in the studio working on Taylor Swift’s new version of Clean, taken from the re-recorded 1989 album
- 10 more things you didn't know Ableton Live could do
- Spooky guitar chords: 4 to learn in time for Halloween
- 8 of the best immersive audio plugins
October 27
- Brian Fallon interview: talking guitars, amps and pedals – plus the new Gaslight Anthem album
- “Dude, that’s just awesome”: Watch John 5 blow Kenny Aronoff’s mind as he shreds EVH licks, virtuoso country and super-weird killswitch riffs on his signature Tele
- SampleRadar: 510 free NUKG samples
- Revv unveils the Dynamis D40, a tube head with integrated Two notes Audio Torpedo technology promising “the truest vintage modern amp experience available”
- FL Studio's latest version has an iconic synth, stem separation and will upload your music to Spotify – and it's still only a point update
- “Who knew bass players were so effin’ human?”: Rush legend Geddy Lee to interview Rob Trujillo, Les Claypool and more in upcoming Paramount+ docuseries
- “It’s just very playable. To me, it’s the best tone that we’ve had from a live show to date”: Sterling By Music Man debuts affordable new signature StingRay for Fall Out Boy’s Pete Wentz
- Pete Thorn just nailed Eddie Van Halen's Fair Warning 'brown sound' guitar tone with only two pedals
- Everything we know about the final Beatles song Now And Then, and the questions that remain
October 26
- Sophie Lloyd celebrates Halloween with a spooktacular take on Enter Sandman, a tarantula and her vocal debut
- Mariah Carey and Whitney Houston guitarist Vernon 'Ice' Black breaks down his parts to their hit songs
- Sound Particles, the maker of the world's first spatial audio synthesizer, on SkyDust 3D: "The future is spatial"
- Eventide releases immersive versions of its Blackhole and MicroPitch plugins
- Lukid: “Dance music can be a bit snobbish about melody - but for me, the marriage of rhythmic and melodic elements is where the magic happens”
- "As producers, you struggle to get inspired if you're using the same thing. A lot of times, a piece of analogue gear can break you out of that rut" – Shaun Lopez on crafting synth sounds for the long-awaited second album from Crosses
- Boss has delivered the RE-201 Space Echo and BOSS CE-1 Chorus Ensemble preamps in a single pedal for the BP-1W booster
- Could Lambda Synthetics' PolyPulse revolutionize live electronic music performance?
- TC Electronic brings a classic '80s rack unit to a pedal with the 2290 P Dynamic Delay
- Vox debuts new Giulietta VGA-5TD guitar with sound modelling and gives the Phantom a £199 slight return
October 25
- "It brings back so many memories" – Nirvana tech Earnie Bailey and Kurt Cobain's brother discuss and demo his Sky-Stang I guitar
- Dream Theater have a new drummer and his name is Mike Portnoy
- Silen Audio's Infinite Flow captures the 'sonic imperfection' of vintage analogue synths in software
- Roland updates its software JX-3P and now you can make it sound pristine or battered
- Steve Albini reveals Nirvana's In Utero album features a happy accident with Kurt Cobain and a distortion pedal in the studio
- "When I started playing it I knew that something very important was happening in my life"– Johnny Marr reveals the two different guitars that helped to define his style over 20 years apart
- Arturia's 'high density' 16Rig is the top of the AudioFuse range and ideal for your modular synths, analogue outboard and vintage keys
- Mella Dee: "That's the type of music I want to make: deep, dark and heavy - nothing glamorous, just raw and industrial"
- Korg announces Keystage, its first MIDI 2.0 keyboard controller, with polyphonic aftertouch, audio out and official integration with Ableton Live
October 24
- Universal Audio returns to its past pedal success for the UAFX Teletronix LA-2A Studio Compressor, Flow Vintage Tremolo and Brigade Chorus and Vibrato
- Guitarist Jeff Schroeder quits the Smashing Pumpkins after 16 years
- Dusty Hill’s crazy, brilliant, iconic fur-covered Dean bass from ZZ Top’s Legs video is heading to the auction block
- “It can be any single effect that you need at any time”: Line 6 debuts the HX One, a full-stereo digital stompbox that could be an overdrive, fuzz, chorus, delay... Or any one of over 250 effects
- 60 years ago, Bob Dylan recorded The Times They Are A-Changin’. In 2015, he explained how you could write songs like that too…
- Did Universal Audio just unveil the greatest Marshall-in-a-box with the UAFX Lion '68 Super Lead Amp pedal?
- Former Spitfire Audio CEO launches new company Song Athletics and its new sample pack is free to the first 500 customers
- “There are no secrets. I didn’t invent this technique... like Van Halen never said that he invented tapping”: Matteo Mancuso shares his incredible fingerstyle approach in video masterclass
- Sonicware Livens up its Lofi-12 sample groovebox with an all-new XT version
- Duff McKagan interview: "I wasn’t initially a bass player – I was a guitar player and a drummer. So, my thing’s a little weird. I write left-handed. I play right-handed. There’s a bunch of weird s**t!"
- Beetronics unveils the Nectar Tone Sweetener, a versatile drive/fuzz pedal offering “vintage tweed-style crunch to a full-bodied overdrive, and even a modern high-gain fuzz”
- UVI makes 'significant' updates to Falcon as v3 adds more oscillators, effects, utilities and expansions
October 23
- Outraged Tony Visconti walks out of Rolling Stones gig before the band plays, and it’s partly thanks to Questlove's DJ set
- Waves drops one of its best sales ever ahead of Black Friday - get 40% off already discounted plugins
- 10 essential Logic Pro for iPad tips
- With 'Sick', 'Insane' and 'WTF' modes, Zynaptiq's new plugin promises to 'Warp Those Frequencies'
- YouTube is working on an AI-powered tool you can use to sing in the voice of famous artists
- This Native Instruments, iZotope and Brainworx Music Production Suite has it all – today you can get 25% off
October 20
- From orchestras to Aphex Twin: the beginner's guide to Philip Glass
- Victory unleashes the Kraken – again! – as the VX MKII adds presence and a footswitchable Clean mode to Rabea Massaad’s favourite high-gain head
- Catalinbread replicates one of Phil Collins and Bruce Springsteen’s favourite ‘80s studio tricks in a compact guitar effects pedal with the CBX Gated Reverb
- Mick Jagger screams at Lady Gaga as the Rolling Stones play a ‘secret’ gig to launch new album Hackney Diamonds
- What does a Dumble ODS-100 Overdrive Special built to Alexander “Howard” Dumble’s personal specs sound like? Pretty, pretty good...
- Why the Blue Guitar Collection is a landmark in archtop history
- Neural DSP launches revamped and expanded Archetype: Plini X – adding octaver, pre-delay, chorus and more
- Mixed in Key has a plugin that will "improve your entire music collection, and make every file sound great" - go on then, if you say so
- Hear Michael Landau demo his new $385 Vemuram Butter Machine distortion pedal and explain why it finally replaced his Maxon SD-9
- No, you’re not Dreaming: Sting, Pink and Marshmello just released a single together
- A distortion pedal with 13 knobs? Old Blood Noise Endeavors’ Beam Splitter makes three copies of your signal then adds weird delays to taste
- Quick! Get select Arturia software half price - including the awesome Pigments 3 - for a limited time
- Spiritbox guitarist Mike Stringer is roadtesting guitars unlike anything Jackson and Aristides have made before
October 19
- "It's entirely made out of piano sounds, made out of cake" Bruce Brubaker invents a new type of piano to channel the spirit of early Brian Eno
- “The times now aren’t right for a new Bowie to come out. He would be too radical” - Tony Visconti slams the lack of ambition and aspiration in the music biz
- 6 signature synths, drum machines and plugins from Aphex Twin, Giorgio Moroder, Timbaland and more
- Universal Audio brings a whole world of mic modelling to its Standard Series mics with the Hemisphere plugin
- Keith Richards on the simple guitar trick at the heart of the Rolling Stones' sound: "Somehow that one extra note disappearing allows for all kinds of other instruments to come through"
- Taylor Swift celebrates The Cruelest Summer with new live Eras Tour audio and LP Giobbi remix
- Roland partners with Stones Throw Records to release a new limited edition version of the SP-404 MK2 sampler
- Yngwie Malmsteen on how much gain he plays with: "It's nuclear plant – it is ridiculous, it's plutonium"
October 18
- The Spruce Goose is Electro-Harmonix's take on the Bluesbreaker overdrive pedal – but this one goes to 11
- Get a closer look at the Chompi sampler, one of the most eagerly awaited electronic instruments of 2023
- LANDR launches Mastering Plugin, bringing its AI-powered auto-mastering into the DAW for the first time
- Keith Richards reveals the truth about his spats with Mick Jagger in the Rolling Stones: "I love the silly sod"
- “We were against synths, Conservatives, cock-rock guitar solos, the monarchy and groups with names like Orchestral Manoeuvers In The Dark” – Johnny Marr revealed what really annoyed The Smiths in a 1990 interview. And what broke them up…
- Don’t wait for Black Friday to save big on a Fender - grab $100 off Player Plus and $50 off Player series guitars right now
- Epiphone Power Players multi-effects pedal surfaces online
- Phonicbloom's Loopstyler is a pocket synth, sampler and looper that you can play like a Stylophone. What more could you want?
- Kiviak Instruments launches Kickstarter campaign for its WoFi sample-based synthesizer
- Arturia goes through the Efx Motions with its new creative movement shaper plugin
- Issue 402 of Future Music is out now
October 17
- Watch Duff McKagan swap the bass for a Les Paul and join Alice In Chains for a showstopping performance of Rooster
- “One of the things I love about this plank of wood is the physicality… I vibrate with the bass tones”: watch Keanu Reeves discuss his bass guitar journey, Peter Hook’s influence and songwriting
- Eventide’s H90 Harmonizer is the super-powered digital multi-FX with infinite possibilities
- Cheesy does it: Ohm Force returns with Frohmager, a new version of its classic free filter plugin that promises even more flavour
- XILS-Lab has loaded some classic synth filters into its Ring'X multi-effect plugin
- Finneas takes a deep dive into Logic Pro and reveals the affordable lo-fi plugin he used on Billie Eilish’s What Was I Made For?
- IK Multimedia launches the iRig USB, a pocket-sized interface for guitar and bass bundled with AmpliTube and TONEX amp and FX modelling software
- An introduction to Jeff Buckley: "I would listen to anything: The Beatles, Bob Dylan, Jimi Hendrix, Joni Mitchell, Judy Garland, Robert Johnson, Thelonious Monk, Bartk, Mahler. And I asked a lot of questions"
- Shergold unveils the versatile Provocateur Standard Series – electric guitars designed by Patrick James Eggle for under £500
- Fancy a Moog Memorymoog synth worth $15k? Here's how you can win the one owned by the guy who literally wrote the book on it
- Charvel makes John Mayer a Masterbuilt Superstrat out of the New York Knicks’ old basketball court at Madison Square Garden
- “Not what I expected at all”: here’s what happened when Dream Theater's Jordan Rudess was asked to play along to Jay-Z and Alicia Keys’ Empire State of Mind, a song he’d never heard before
October 16
- Inon Zur on creating the soundtrack for Starfield: “I composed a whole main theme with lots of versions that we were pretty happy with. And two years later, Todd Howard says, ‘You know, I like it… But I don't love it.’ Boom. Back to the drawing board”
- Could GForce’s enhanced Oberheim OB-X emulation be even better than the original synth?
- Does Liam Gallagher's 2024 Definitely Maybe tour kill off all hopes of an Oasis reunion?
- The Zoom R4 takes the old-school 4-track cassette recorder and puts it in your pocket
- There’s a reason why Madonna references Prince during a guitar solo at the end of Like a Prayer on her Celebration World Tour
- Paul McCartney says Yoko Ono being in the studio with The Beatles was "disturbing": "I don’t think any of us particularly liked it"
October 13
- Billie Joe Armstrong is selling off heaps of gear as Green Day Official Reverb Shop reopens – including stage-played guitars, prototype Juniors, and that Gretsch he customised with spray paint and fire
- Trolling Stone? Clapton and May fail to make the top 30, and Andy Summers is at the bottom of the Rolling Stone Greatest 250 Guitarists Of All Time
- The BBC has unveiled a new version of the Doctor Who theme, but can it compete with the synth-fuelled ones that came before it?
- Show Us Your Studio #11: "Dream synth? I'd love a Yamaha CS-80 if anybody has a spare $50k lying around to help me live out my space-age Vangelis dreams"
- Listen to the previously unheard recording of the Jimi Hendrix Experience’s riotous 1967 performance of the Beatles’ Sgt Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band
- “That is the only time in my life that a camera was ever on when magic actually happened”: Jack Antonoff reflects on the viral video that shows him and Taylor Swift writing the bridge to Getaway Car in a matter of seconds
- Don’t wait for Black Friday – right now you can enjoy a massive 20% off all PRS SE guitars from now until Christmas
- Keith Richards reflects on his first memories of guitar and his playing now: "It's a work in progress – every time you pick the thing up there's a potential of finding something totally new"
- Watch Matteo Mancuso light up the Crossroads with an expert fingerstyle cover of Steve Vai guitar classic Eugene’s Trick Bag
- Who needs a mastering engineer? How to master your music without a professional studio or expensive gear
- “I’ve been chasing this sound for so long and it’s finally here now”: YouTuber spends 6 months making a replica of the aluminium guitar Kurt Cobain used to record In Utero, and it sounds incredible
- How Benson used a chip used in karaoke machines to create what could be one of the key delay pedals in a vintage year
- 30 essential acoustic guitar chords, with charts
- Minimal Audio reverses decision to make its Current synth plugin subscription-only: "We will fix it, and we hope that you guys will give us another chance"
October 12
- Plugin Boutique just slashed up to 90% off our favourite Universal Audio software bundles
- The Star-Spangled Banner: the story of a British song, American patriotism and a white Stratocaster that shocked America
- Ghostwriter, the artist behind the viral AI 'fake Drake' song, speaks out on AI voice modelling: "It's like fan fiction - a fan-generated genre of music"
- Eras-defining? Beyonce joins Taylor Swift on the red carpet at the Eras Tour movie premiere
- Digit Music is making music tech more inclusive with its joystick MIDI controller: "It's the power of a keyboard in a device you can play with one finger"
- Walrus updates its 385 overdrive pedal with a gainier, more versatile MKII
- Behind-the-scenes footage of Billie Eilish and Finneas in the studio reveals the moment they overcame writer’s block and hit upon the idea for What Was I Made For?
- Christone 'Kingfish' Ingram: "I’m really heavily into Gary Moore when it comes to the hard blues rock sound" – talking tones, tips and a new live album with the Delta guitar hero
- Sharp fret ends? Take care of your guitar with MusicNomad's new fret dressing file
- 1010music's nanobox tangerine is a cutesy sampler that can fit in your back pocket
- “Oh, shit. This is fire”: watch the moment Daft Punk played Pharrell Williams the finished version of Get Lucky for the first time
- Foo Fighters guitarist Chris Shiflett tells us why he uses Ableton to help prepare for his solo live sets
- 7 tips for getting into modular synthesis
October 11
- Eventide's new Riptide pedal combines an overdrive with a Uni-Vibe-inspired modulation side
- Meris aims to shake up the ambient reverb pedal market with its MercuryX Modular Reverb System
- Glitch just got glitchier as Sugar Bytes updates its beloved Effectrix multi-effects plugin
- With AN-X, Yamaha has put three-decade old Virtual Analogue technology into its latest flagship synth, the Montage M. Here's why that's a great thing
- Minimal Audio unveils Current, a subscription-based synth, sampler and multi-effects plugin that's "more than just another soft synth"
- "When Annie’s turn came, she refused to do the obvious white-male masturbatory thing on the guitar" – 5 St. Vincent songs guitarists need to hear
- Universal Audio is giving away a ‘new’ LA-2A compressor plugin for free: here’s what makes it different to all the others
- What is Audoo, the "revolutionary" music tech startup backed by Elton John, Paul McCartney and ABBA's Björn Ulvaeus?
- "We took his one thing away, which was being in a band" – Nick Broomfield's new film The Stones And Brian Jones will cast new light on the tragic story of the band's founder
October 10
- PRS expands its SE lineup with a trio of new models as the Custom 24 gets dressed up in quilted maple and the CE makes its Student Edition debut
- 'It's the Holy Grail of gear": Cherry Audio recreates a Korg synth classic, of which just 50 were ever made
- APC64: Akai Pro goes big on the touch strips and polyphonic aftertouch with its latest Ableton Live pad controller
- “It’s like sawing off your own leg. Why would I do that? It’s the most important thing that ever happened to me”: Andy Summers explains why he'll never sell his “magical” modded Telecaster
- The 5 lost guitar albums that you can now hear – and are worth your time
- Musician's Friend celebrates in style with up to 40% off big-name brands such as Fender, Alesis, Bose and more
- Waldorf downsizes its Iridium synth and launches a smaller ‘Core’ version for performers and musicians on the move
- Viken Arman: "My favourite synth is definitely the Yamaha CS-70M. The sound is unbeatable - it's the only synth I would keep forever"
- “A harmonious balance between modern innovations and the timeless appearance of traditional guitars”: Fender makes the acoustic guitar thinner, lighter and more stage-friendly with the Highway Series
- Free BFD Player plugin promises to give everyone access to high-quality drum sounds and grooves
- With up to $350 off Fender Aerodyne and Vintera guitars at the official Fender store, who needs Amazon Prime Big Deal Days anyway?
- "I just pressed a key and it made that famous Moog sound": 5 times when one piece of studio gear defined an artist's career
- “Create drum patterns by simply strumming strings”: DigiTech brings that beat back as the SDRUM returns to create jam rhythms from your pedalboard
- 8 interesting ways to transition from one part of a track to the next
- Neural DSP launches Cortex Control, a fully integrated desktop interface to manage Quad Cortex features and settings
- Yamaha gets back into the virtual analogue synth game with the Montage M: new AN-X engine joins enhanced AWM2 and FM-X sound generators in flagship workstation keyboard
October 9
- Outsidify uses your phone to turn the outside world into an effects processor: "The world is your resonator"
- Eric Clapton's Cream Fool SG and Kurt Cobain's In Utero tour Skystang I guitar are heading to auction, expected to fetch millions
- Austrian Audio’s MiCreator Studio looks like what it is: an audio interface and a microphone combined
- The Gaslight Anthem's Brian Fallon tells us the underrated distortion he thinks is "one of the best pedals on the planet"
- “No credit given or permission requested”: Pet Shop Boys call out Drake for “singing the chorus of West End Girls” in new song All The Parties
- Make some freaky sounds with these experimental sound design tips
- "I treat the number 5 as if it were 10" – Joe Bonamassa shares Les Paul tips with his favourite '59 Burst
October 8
- Watch Sepultura drummer Eloy Casagrande’s killer breakdown of Roots Bloody Roots
- AC/DC make live return with Matt Laug in place of Phil Rudd on drums
October 6
- “We just played a few takes and I just did whatever I did and it seemed to work”: Session ace Tim May reveals that he played Back To The Future’s Johnny B. Goode solo in on a replica Strat
- “Unlock timeless sustain and endless creativity with dual, independent circuits inspired by the legendary Ross compressor”: Jackson Audio unveils the Hour Glass Dual Studio Compressor
- It had to happen: Automix is a free AI tool that will mix your music for you, and you can try it right now for free
- Watch YouTube drummer Tyler Visser cover Tool’s entire Lateralus album in a single, unedited take
- A super rare maple-fretboard Gibson Les Paul Custom has gone up for sale – and it was once owned by Les Paul himself
- “I thought my head would be chopped off immediately when it came out, because at the time it was so opposite to the grunge thing that was popular” – 5 essential Elliott Smith songs to start with
- Candle In The Wind wasn’t originally inspired by Marilyn Monroe, says Bernie Taupin
- Steve Miller joins John Mayer onstage to perform The Joker
October 5
- Donner throws a curve ball with Medo, a handheld synth, sampler and music-making device
- Jorja Smith becomes the latest artist to cover Harry Styles’ As It Was, following Lewis Capaldi, John Mayer, Arcade Fire and - of course - Rick Astley
- Focusrite Scarlett 2i2 vs Focusrite Scarlett Solo: Which should you buy?
- The Positive Grid Spark amps are now giggable with a new 140-watt extension cab – but can other guitarists benefit from its potential too?
- “Nah. It doesn’t work”: How Harold Faltermeyer’s iconic Axel F nearly didn’t make it into Beverly Hills Cop at all
October 4
- Issue 327 of Computer Music is on sale now
- Mateus Asato gets the Neural DSP Archetype tone treatment
- Joe Bonamassa explains why stopping warming up before shows helped to reinspire his guitar solos: "I'm much more lyrical as a soloist"
- Could you create and release a track a day for an entire year? That’s what one EDM producer is going to do, and he’s got the tattoo to prove it
- Best Mac for music production: the best Apple machines for your music-making needs
- Synplant is back, and version 2 uses AI to grow sounds based on any audio file you feed it
- U2:UV Achtung Baby Live At Sphere - inside the tech behind the greatest show currently on earth
October 3
- Heriot's Debbie Gough on the 10 albums that changed her life and that Jackson shred collaboration video: "It was definitely one of the craziest experiences of my life"
- “An enduring symbol of the era’s energy, defiance, and rock n roll rebellion”: Gibson offers its ‘70s Flying V and Explorer in Antique Natural
- "I was kind of playing around with the Auto-Tune, as it's called": How Cher's Believe changed pop music forever
- Brian May’s guitar tech Pete Malandrone reveals that the Queen guitarist has added a mastering EQ to his 2023 live rig to cut out “spurious, horrible RF noise”
- Show Us Your Studio #10: "We're loving the Erica Synths Perkons drum synth at the moment - it sounds so huge"
- “You create your sounds simply by plugging into the right holes”: here’s how the BBC explained the Moog synthesizer to TV viewers back in 1969
- 11 live mistakes every drummer makes
- Fender goes all-in on amps and effects modelling with its Tone Master Pro pedal – and FRFR cabs too!
- “This is a new one? Smells like an old one!”: Watch Marcus King and Drew Smithers run the rule over Gibson’s new Murphy Lab acoustic guitars
- Andrew Huang on AI, secret weapons in the studio and his new Baby Audio plugin: "Every new tech development arrives with a mixture of wonder and fear, but I’m optimistic we’ll hold on to our humanity"
- John Mayer reveals his least favourite album he's made, and the three that he thinks are "front-to-back perfect"
- Coming soon: MusicRadar's Recording Week 2023
- “Make musical mayhem”: Jim Dunlop and Zakk Wylde celebrate 20 years of collaboration with special-edition MXR x Wylde Audio pedals
- Joe Bonamassa: "When I play live, I probably use the volume and tone pots 100 times in an evening"
October 2
- Harley Benton lays the low-end gauntlet down with the 7-string BZ-7000 II NT bass
- 5 reasons you should upgrade your PA
- Behringer says that “many media outlets and ‘influencers’” no longer support it because it won't advertise with them or provide "free products", or “they simply don’t like us for whatever reason”
- "The Speedtail was the perfect muse": $3.5 million McLaren supercar inspires a one-off guitar build
- Harley Benton previews new Tom DeLonge-influenced guitar with premium neck specs