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- November 30
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- Sampling with HALion 6 - pt 6: Building complex instrument interfaces
- DSI Prophet Rev2 16-Voice review
- 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!
- NI Komplete Kontrol S61 MkII review
- 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
- How to use Logic's Tape Delay as an instant retroiser
- Plugin Boutique’s new plugin lets you record internet radio in your DAW
- November 28
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- Sampling with HALion 6 - pt 5: Creative voice recording and resampling
- 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
- Roland Boutique SE-02 review
- 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 26
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- November 24
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- Gibson Custom announces Mick Ralphs 1958 Les Paul Standard Replica guitar
- Plugin Boutique’s Scaler plugin can tell you which chords to use and help you to write songs
- Learn how to get a great-sounding guitar mix with these quick tracking tips
- Guitar basics: getting started with natural harmonics
- One for the road: Al Di Meola
- 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
- Guitar setup: how to fix a broken strap pin
- Sampling with HALion 6 - pt 4: Creating a multisampled Yamaha CS-80 patch
- 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
- How to add noise to get a lo-fi effect
- 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
- Sonor SQ1 Series Drums review
- 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
- Remo Powerstroke P3 Felt Tone heads review
- 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
- Pedalboard tour: Skunk Anansie’s Ace takes you through his array of stompboxes
- 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
- How to get classic Vox AC30 tones using guitar modelling
- Best in music tech 2017
- November 12
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- November 10
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- Kilohearts aims to Carve through the competition with its new EQ plugin
- NAMM 2018: PRS lifts the lid on hugely versatile Custom 24-08 guitar
- How to program a typical one drop reggae beat and add fills
- How CITES is changing the future of rosewood in guitars
- Cheap Trick's Rick Nielsen: “I haven’t practised guitar since 1967!”
- How to extract sounds from a full track using plugins
- November 9
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- Knaggs Doug Rappoport Kenai review
- 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
- Godin Summit Classic Ltd review
- 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"
- 9 modern remix tricks that'll help you to get the job done
- Me and my guitar: James Bay
- Easy guitar theory: blues scale
- Jimi Hendrix’s Fuzz Face sells for $40,625
- New music tech gear of the month: review round-up (November 2017)
- November 5
- November 3
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- Sampling with HALion 6 - pt 3: Cutting-edge wavetable synthesis
- 8 of the most iconic remixes of all time
- Audio Damage QuatroMod review
- First look video: Ableton Live 10 Echo delay
- How to amplify your electro-acoustic guitar for live gigs
- Holy Communion: Joe Bonamassa and Glenn Hughes on their long-awaited return
- 5 essential rhythm guitar styles
- Al Murray looks ahead to LDS 2017 with the British Drum Co
- Chapman ML1 Pro Traditional review
- November 2
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- How to timestretch track parts to fit a new tempo for remixing
- 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
- Softube Tape review
- 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”
- Sterling by Music Man St Vincent STV60 review
- November 1
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- Meris Mercury7 review
- 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
- Serato Sample review
- 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
- Martin 00LX1AE review