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- March 30
- March 29
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- The Really Useful Piano Poster looks really useful
- Faith Patrick James Eggle Legacy Mars review
- Crimson Custom Shop Descendant review
- 13 guitar players you need to hear in 2018
- Natal Arcadia Birch T6 Drum Kit review
- Dubreq Stylophone Gen X-1 review
- Drummer Steve Barney on inspiration, Anastacia and what keeps him behind the kit
- This plugin makes your music sound like it was recorded on an 8-track cassette machine from the ‘90s
- Tone makers - EarthQuaker Devices' Jamie Stillman: “The way I voice the pedals is just how I like a guitar to sound”
- March 28
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- Washburn debuts most affordable all-solid acoustic guitar with ergonomic armrest bevel
- If you’ve got an iPhone X, you can now control GarageBand’s instruments and effects with your face
- Hands-on: Transforming sounds with the Eventide H9
- AAS’s Objeq iOS app makes your table drumming sound like a real percussion performance
- Blackstar HT Venue Stage 100 MKII review
- ROLI bundles its Blocks into the Songmaker Kit
- Shaw Percussion M-Class Hardware review
- Erica Synths Acidbox III review
- Apple’s new 9.7-inch iPad could be the best way to get into iOS music making
- BackBeat is a wearable subwoofer for bassists
- Rig tour: Marmozets
- John Carter Cash: “It was a great journey to work with all these artists and watch them honestly connect with my father”
- Headstrong Amps introduces the Corduroy Amp
- March 27
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- Teenage Engineering PO-33 and PO-35 synths: MusicRadar hands-on
- Ken Bran, legendary Marshall technician, passes away
- Mastodon's Bill Kelliher: “Guitar is less intimidating when you can see patterns - that’s what scales are for”
- Vance Joy: “Most breakthrough moments happened using less ‘significant’ guitars”
- Dream Dark Matter Eclipse Ride Cymbal review
- Behringer’s mindblowing new factory is actually a city
- Ableton Live 10 review
- Witness some mind-bending seven-string tech-metal skills in this exclusive Protosequence guitar playthrough
- March 26
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- The Model D returns once again as Moog announces iOS synth app
- It looks like Lana Del Rey’s copyright dispute with Radiohead is over
- Meris Polymoon review
- The Custom IEM Company Re-Shelling Service review
- Bivalvia Synthesis is the wooden music box you always wanted
- Radial Engineering Key Largo review
- Hit your tone with Mr Black’s DoomStick for none-more-heavy fuzz
- Alter Bridge's Brian Marshall: “Sometimes, if I’m close enough to the kick drum, it’s like the bass plays itself”
- March 25
- March 24
- March 23
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- SampleRadar: 216 free jazz keys samples
- Russell Crowe is putting a host of rare guitars up for auction
- Watch Merel Bechtold tear up the fretboard in this exclusive Purest Of Pain playthrough
- Line 6’s Echo Farm 3.0 is now available as a native plugin for any DAW
- 6 fresh guitar artists you need to hear in March
- Classic gear: '66 Gibson SG Custom
- March 22
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- Nektar promises comprehensive hands-off control with its Pacer DAW and MIDI footswitch controller
- How to get great drum recordings with limited microphones
- PRS's limited-run SE Satin Quilt Stealth electric guitars break cover
- Tom Holkenborg talks Tomb Raider and soundtracking Lara Croft
- Gibson CEO Henry Juszkiewicz: “My dream was to be the Nike of music lifestyle… I have to cut back on that ambition, frankly”
- The playlist: Warpaint's Theresa Wayman
- 5 minutes alone - Body Count's Ernie C: "Our most bizarre gig was playing a party for a Russian billionaire"
- Aaron Spears: "Back then I had no idea that that was like a 9/8 time signature, it was just a song that we played at church"
- March 21
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- FREE PC/Mac MIDI instrument with Computer Music 255: Scale Player CM
- PLAY KEYBOARD LIKE A PRO – Computer Music issue 255 is out now
- Zoom’s handy H1n looks like it’ll make light work of portable audio recording
- Cort introduces fan-fret Artisan A5 Plus SCFF five-string bass guitar
- In pictures: 68 pro guitarists' pedalboards
- 20 premium Cubase power tips
- Universal Audio adds the Neve Preamp to its UAD plugin roster
- 9 rack effect bargains guitarists need to check out
- March 20
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- Fancy building your own unreleased Moog synthesizer?
- Sonic Youth’s effects pedals are up for sale and you could buy them
- Solar unleashes signature guitar for The Haunted/Witchery’s Patrik Jensen
- Fender channels its roots with California Series acoustic guitars
- How to get classic EVH 5150 tones using guitar modelling
- Nashville session guitar king Jerry McPherson: “Instead of trying to make yourself look good, you need to make the song look good”
- Korn’s Fieldy: my top 5 tips for bassists
- March 19
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- Guitarist Presents Aces
- Fender effects pedal range: MusicRadar hands-on
- The Stranglers' Jean-Jacques Burnel: “We try to rehearse without looking at our guitars, so you're free to play with the song”
- SNBRN: 5 things I’ve learned about music production
- Analog Obsession takes you back to the ‘50s with a free VST/AU vintage preamp plugin
- Gibson reveals $6k Vivian Campbell Les Paul Custom guitar
- Black Moth drummer Dom McCready: "We want to be the kind of band that makes people have to lean back because it’s so heavy"
- Joan Baez: "We found a scroll inside my guitar which said, 'Too bad you're a communist'"
- USB 2.0 vs USB 3.0 - which is best for your audio interface?
- March 17
- March 16
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- Blondes on mesmeric new album, Warmth, and the gear behind their sound
- Jack White’s unlikely new favourite guitar? The EVH Wolfgang
- Overloud’s EQ550 plugin models a classic hardware EQ, and you might be able to get it for free
- The Year of the Dog: Gibson unveils $6.7k Chinese New Year Les Paul
- Samantha Fish: “Not every song needs a solo. Most songs don’t”
- Malekko’s Downer pedal will turn your guitar into a raging fuzz synth
- The Switch Pick gives you multiple gauges in a single plectrum
- Classic gear: Gretsch 6129 Silver Jet
- Monade Sounds’ Pure707 plugin offers clean and resampled TR drum machine sounds
- March 15
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- IK Multimedia goes to the Max with version 2 of its Total Studio bundle
- One O One Black Diamond Snare Drum review
- Pablo Bolivar's favourite music software
- Behringer suggests that it’s releasing a Pro-One synth clone
- Jonny Greenwood reveals his favourite Radiohead guitar part: “I’m more proud of what we’ve written than how I play”
- Gibson: how did we get here?
- Yamaha Revstar RS820CR review
- TC Electronic debuts feature-loaded, ultra-flexible SpectraDrive Bass Preamp and Line Driver pedal
- Behind the kit with Ride's Loz Colbert: "I'd finish a take and everyone would chuckle and mention Keith Moon. I didn’t even know who he was"
- Noisia’s Martijn van Sonderen breaks down the remix of Diplodocus
- Review round-up: rock-ready offset guitars
- Steve Howe: “Guitars always give me a feeling of complete freedom”
- Stanton Moore serves up Drum Academy trial offer
- March 14
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- Steinberg Cubase Pro 9.5 review
- Vessels on their remarkable career change
- Is it a looper? Is it a sequencer? No, it’s ALK, which is sort of both
- Yamaha Revstar 502T review
- Cort debuts most affordable torrefied acoustics yet with Aged To Vintage series
- Suzi Quatro: “The Precision is the only bass that you can plug directly into the board and it’s perfect”
- Frank Turner: “Songwriting is an art and a craft. You can learn the craft. The art side remains indecipherable”
- 15 pioneering pickers who invented country guitar
- A Google research team has created a playable AI synth
- March 13
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- RTOM Black Holes review
- Meet the programmers: Blue Cat Audio
- Youngr: 5 things I’ve learned about music production
- Yamaha Revstar RS320 review
- Keeley’s Germanium Amplifier pedal will “put an edge on your tone”
- Gamechanger Audio's Plasma Pedal generates high-voltage xenon-tube discharges
- Fall Out Boy’s Joe Trohman: my top 5 tips for guitarists
- March 12
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- Steffi shows us round her amazing studio
- Rig tour: Kenny Wayne Shepherd
- Z.Vex announces Box Of Rock Vertical pedal
- Spector Euro 4 1977 Limited Edition review
- Master Motown and Stax rhythm grooves in 20 minutes with this easy guitar lesson
- Dougie Poynter and Adam Perry talk A, McFly and the secrets of a killer rhythm section: "It all comes back to chemistry"
- Paramore drummer Zac Farro on rejoining the band, HalfNoise and his birthday gift from Taylor York: "It’s been an incredibly cool process"
- March 11
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- March 9
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- Eric Clapton’s 1978 Guild D-55 guitar sells for £25,000
- Fender In-Ear Monitors review
- Mad Professor’s Kosmos reverb pedal “will open a universe of ambient tones”
- Death By Audio turns its “evil brains” to envelope filters with Deep Animation pedal
- Revolutionise your Whammy or H9 with EvenMidi’s ingenious Pitchy MIDI controller
- D16 Group Toraverb 2 review
- How to assemble a guitar effects rack
- DLYM puts chorus, phaser and flanger effects into a free VST/AU plugin
- March 8
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- Drum Workshop Collector’s Series Stainless Steel Drum Kit review
- 15 inspirational guitarists (who happen to be women)
- Arturia launches 6 plugins that it says you’ll actually use
- ADHD Audio Tools releases a free compressor plugin that’s inspired by classic hardware
- Fender Roger Waters Signature Precision Bass review
- Gibson creditors want new CEO before any rescue deal
- Blasius Bali review
- Issue 329 of Future Music is on sale now
- Plugin Boutique Scaler review
- March 7
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- If you like motion control then maybe you should put a Wave ring on it
- Ellen Allien: “I don’t use any digital effects. The effects are me, or the crowd, or the light man! I don’t like effects. I like hypnotic sets.”
- Patrice Bäumel: “I’ve never seen anyone who applies themselves 100% in that scene who didn’t make it somewhere.”
- 10 questions for Three Days Grace’s Barry Stock: “Learn from everyone, and be as versatile as you can”
- Tracktion’s Waveform 9 DAW is designed to help you find your unique sound
- The oldest electric bass guitar in the world just sold for $23k
- Bram Bos enters the space race as he launches Kosmonaut for iOS
- Dr No Effects reveals Colossus boost and octave fuzz pedal
- New guitar gear of the month: review round-up (March 2018)
- Dmitry Sches Thorn review
- Drop a bomb on your bottom-end with the Enforcer sub-bass plugin
- March 6
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- Eventide’s H9 Control App arrives on Android
- Thomas Gold on genre identity and why piano will always be the king of instruments
- Softube aims to put a Weiss-like grip on your mastering with new plugins
- #DrumDays all this week - bargains, QAs and more from Thomann
- Orb Composer uses AI to help you make music
- Skindred’s Arya Goggin talks big shows and even bigger beats
- Roland says that its new TR-808 plugin puts others in the shade
- Old gold: 1945 Harmony Monterey H1456
- Unfiltered Audio SpecOps review
- March 5
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- John Mayer finally announces his Strat-inspired PRS, the Silver Sky
- New tech gear of the month: review round-up (March 2018)
- Feder: 5 things I’ve learned about music production
- Note Kitchen is a free search engine for chords and scales
- Roland’s new Aira TR-8S emulates classic drum machines, lets you import your own samples, and offers more hands-on control
- Kurt Ballou: “Keeping an eye on the big picture, what’s exciting about music, is really crucial”
- How to get classic Fender Deluxe Reverb tones using guitar modelling
- Biffy Clyro’s Hayden MoFo 30 amp is up for sale and you could buy it
- March 4
- March 3
- March 2
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- Orange Fur Coat review
- Classic album: Simian Mobile Disco on Attack Delay Sustain Release
- A new Polivoks synth is coming and will cost you just $500
- Hamstead Soundworks’ Odyssey will take you on “an unbelievable journey through tone”
- The CRAFTrhythm mini drum sampler takes 10 minutes to build, but could provide hours of fun
- Origin Effects’ RevivalDrive is “the first overdrive of its kind, ever”
- Me and my guitar: Charlie Barnes
- Synths and gaming collide in Squarewave Maker: “the level is your instrument”
- Breedlove Oregon Concerto E review
- Walter Trout: “I just started calling people. It seemed like a good idea, y’know?”
- Under the microscope: George Harrison's Vox AC30
- Newfangled Audio Elevate Bundle review
- ESP E-II Eclipse review
- March 1
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- PRS Custom 24-08 review
- 8 sure-fire ways to improve the balance of your bass
- Creeper’s Will Gould: my 5 lyrical heroes
- Sebastian Mullaert: "I feel that my music is more alive and organic, and maybe that’s what makes everything sound true to the classic techno sound"
- Bitwig Studio enters a new Phase as version 2.3 is released
- Blood Red Shoes' Steven Ansell: “The punk kid in me wants to ruffle more feathers”
- Michael 'Moose' Thomas: “I’m back and happy to be here”
- Mike Joyce: “When I started I had three styles of playing: fast and loud, faster and louder and fastest and loudest. The Smiths was a shock”
- Burning Witches' Lala Frischknecht: “Heavy metal is beautiful”
- The Riven's Olof Axegärd: “We’re firing on all cylinders”
- Meet two-hand tapping’s new guitar hero, Sarah Longfield, in this insane eight-string playthrough
- Pioneer and DJ Jazzy Jeff have made scratching as easy as pressing a pad on the new DDJ-SB3 controller
- Phil X: “Jon Bon Jovi called, and he said, ‘Hey. We need you’”
- Spitfire Audio promises “groundbreaking sampling” in Hans Zimmer Strings
- Historic hardware: 1952 Gibson Les Paul Model
- Boss DR-01S review
- Universal Audio Empirical Labs EL8 Distressor review