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- October 31
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- Could this one soothing piano chord help prevent people from having nightmares?
- Becos CompIQ STELLA Pro Compressor review
- Roland RD-88 review
- FINNEAS meets Rick Rubin: “OK, this is a personal question. I look at the breadth of your career, and I see you as a master delegator”
- Synclavier returns: iconic ‘80s brand is back with the Regen desktop synth
- Chris Buck on Clapton, Blackmore and the 10 albums that changed his life: "If there is a very tenuous thread running through all of my favourite records it’s that sense of having captured a band or an artist at a moment in time"
- Best electronic drum set for kids 2024: child-friendly electronic drum kits
- 10 things need to know before stepping into a pro recording studio
- 20 practical recording tips to super-charge your takes
- Using a DI box for recording guitar is easy - here's how
- Best in-ear monitors 2024: IEMs for stage and studio
- The Breakdown: Joe Turner on how to produce killer 303-style melodic arps
- See the Red Hot Chili Peppers covering Nirvana's Smells Like Teen Spirit with John Frusciante on vocals
- "I’m in with all the people I look up to": Martin Garrix crowned world's no.1 DJ in annual mag rankings
- October 30
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- October 28
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- Zultan AEON series cymbals review
- Rock ‘n’ roll pioneer Jerry Lee Lewis dies, aged 87
- John 5 officially joins Mötley Crüe
- Steve Vai is auctioning off a heap of ultra-collectible guitars, rare amps and effects
- Arturia’s $99 Tape Mello-Fi plugin is free to download again, but only for a limited time
- Stop this train – the PRS John Mayer SE Silver Sky has £296 off at Andertons
- Best drum sets: top drum kits for beginner to pro drummers
- Solar Guitars puts the pedal to the metal with its stompbox debut, CHUG – a high-gain preamp with a noise gate
- Fred Again wows Zane Lowe with his NI Maschine skills and says that mentor Brian Eno has a “childish, wide-eyed fascination with things”
- Fender adds the Jazzmaster to its Mexican-built Acoustasonic Player series
- Harley Benton offers premium hardware at entry-level prices on the £199 J-style MV-4JB Gotoh bass guitar
- Best cheap electric guitars 2024: epic budget electrics
- Best microphones for recording 2024: Top studio mics for instruments, vocals and more
- Best studio monitors 2024: Studio speakers for musicians and producers on any budget
- Recording Week 2022: A-Z
- Recording setup essentials: an amazing hip-hop setup for under £500
- Recording setup essentials: get a stadium-sized rock sound for less than £500
- Recording setup essentials: powerful pop sounds for under £500
- Recording setup essentials: everything you need to make soundtracks for less than £500
- Recording setup essentials: make mind-blowing electronic music for less than £500
- u-he at Recording Week 2022: MFM2 is an over-the-top digital delay for more feedback, more control - more inspiration!
- JZ Microphones at Recording Week 2022: celebrating 15 Years of Innovation
- EVE Audio at Recording Week 2022: Shaping the market for more than a decade
- Pioneer DJ at Recording Week 2022: Find your frequency with VM series active monitor speakers
- Focusrite at Recording Week 2022: Never Stop Creating - Focusrite’s iconic Scarlett 2i2 has helped make more records than any other interface in history. Here’s why.
- Focusrite at Recording Week 2022: Clarett+ - Are you sleeping on Focusrite’s premium range of audibly impressive USB interfaces?
- IK Multimedia at Recording Week 2022: Meet IK Multimedia’s Brand New iLoud Precision Studio Monitors. Engineered to Perfection.
- Roland at Recording Week 2022: Roland Rubix Series - the solution for studio quality recording that you can take anywhere
- October 27
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- Warm Audio heats up the market for holy grail overdrive with the launch of its Centavo and Warmdrive pedals
- Watch the late Dave Smith discussing the OB-X8 with Tom Oberheim, Marcus Ryle and Tony Karavidas
- VegaTrem’s VT2 Teletrem allows players to add a vibrato to their Telecaster without drilling holes
- Mötley Crüe’s Mick Mars retires from touring for health reasons
- Best Alesis electronic drum sets 2024: Our pick of Alesis electronic drums for beginners to pros
- Robert Glasper becomes Rhodes ambassador: watch him playing Donny Hathaway’s Valdez in the Country on the new MK8 electric piano
- Gretsch refreshes its retro-inspired Roots Collection with two smart new finishes for its parlour-sized Jim Dandy acoustics
- AFRORACK is making modular synthesis accessible to underprivileged kids
- Taylor Swift joins Bon Iver and Aaron Dessner at London's OVO Arena for surprise performance
- Watch Robby Krieger and Alex Lifeson jam on Santana classic Evil Ways
- DrumCraft adds limited edition finishes to Series 6 kits
- iZotope kills its Iris 2, BreakTweaker and Trash 2 plugins as the Soundwide cull continues
- Gibson Gene Simmons G2 Thunderbird review
- Need an affordable, robust, high-quality vocal mic? Austrian Audio’s OD303 may just be the answer
- October 26
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- Best electronic drum sets under $500/£500 in: Budget e-drums from Roland, Alesis, Yamaha and more
- KRK’s GoAux speakers are mobile monitors for on-the-go music makers
- Taylor 724ce Hawaiian Koa review
- “Beginnings are easy - endings are hard”: Brian Eno speaks for music producers everywhere as he discusses the “terror” of trying not to ruin a good idea
- 15 questions with... Mafro: "I’m a fan of hardware, but something like u-he Diva probably sounds just as good"
- October 25
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- Gibson adds a pair of limited edition Custom Shop Flying V EXPs to its Dave Mustaine Collection
- Best budget USB microphones 2024: Get creative and sound better for less
- Andertons and Pedal Pawn team up for a collection of one-off Lego stompbox replicas in support of the Teenage Cancer Trust
- Bono says he wants U2 to release “a noisy, uncompromising, unreasonable guitar album” like AC/DC
- You can now put a Minimoog synth emulation inside your Akai MPC or Force hardware
- Best Roland electronic drum sets 2024: top Roland V-Drums for beginner to pro drummers
- Improve your film scores, game audio and other productions with 50% off Steinberg Nuendo 12 at Thomann
- LAVA MUSIC unveils the BLUE LAVA Original, a travel-friendly acoustic with a weather-resistant build and onboard effects
- CableGuys releases ShaperBox 3, “the ultimate plugin for modern mixes and infinite inspiration”
- Get United Plugins’ Urban Puncher drum supercharger totally free until the end of October
- The ultimate beginner's guide to metering
- Best PA speakers 2024: Compact and mobile active sound systems for bands and buskers
- Guild Surfliner review
- October 24
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- Premier Drums marks 100th anniversary with Special Edition kits, snares and an overhaul of its entire range!
- Skudge: "Getting an analogue sound in the box is easier than it’s ever been"
- Freakshow Industries' Pocket Dimension is the weirdest plugin we've seen this year - and you're allowed to steal it
- K-Devices releases Magma, a granular texture generator for 'the most adventurous sound designers'
- October 23
- October 21
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- The Danelectro Baritone Longhorn is coming back in style as the extended-range plywood classic makes a return
- Best budget in-ear monitors 2024: Our pick of cheap in-ears for every type of musician
- Watch Julian Lage’s stunning solo KNKX Studio Session
- Best guitar straps 2024: boost comfort, support and security with these straps for electric, acoustic and bass
- Fantastic (free) synths and how to use them: Dexed
- JHS Pedals launches much-anticipated Madison Cunningham signature vibrato pedal, the Artificial Blonde
- Joey Santiago on his top 5 Pixies guitar performances: “The only rule we had was to try and get away from the 12-bar blues framework. I love the blues, I love AC/DC, but music is allowed to do different things”
- Harley Benton refreshes its low-price, high-performance Fusion series with new colours, premium finishes, and the return of the Fusion-T HH
- Akai release the MPK Mini Plus MIDI keyboard: compact controller is all grown up
- Nail Geddy Lee’s bass tones with his new YYZ Shape-shifter Signature SansAmp from Tech 21
- Panda Bear & Sonic Boom: "I don’t think artists think about music in the same way that engineers do"
- October 20
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- Moog Moogerfooger effects plugins review
- Polyphia's Tim Henson: “It’s not really cool to be in a metal band because they don’t make any money"
- Slash talks Guns N' Roses album plans and new songs arriving soon: "There's a couple of epic ones coming out"
- Best MIDI keyboards for beginners 2024: Entry-level controllers for those starting out in music production
- Moog brings back the Moogerfooger effect pedals in a new bundle of plugins for Mac and Windows
- PreSonus releases Notion Mobile, a free composing app that enables you to create standard music notation and guitar tab
- Your dream Fender guitar without the Custom Shop price tag? The Mod Shop comes to the UK, Germany and France
- Friedman unleashes two 20-watt tube amps and they sound spectacular
- Thrice's Dustin Kensrue: 10 albums that changed my life
- Avid revives the Mbox: Pro Tools-friendly Mbox Studio promises ‘more I/O than any other desktop audio interface’
- October 19
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- Boss RE-2 Space Echo review
- New Zealand woman finds out the acoustic guitar gathering dust in her house is a Martin from 1870
- G-Sonique announces BFX24, a free filter plugin, but you can’t download it just yet
- “Plugins are lame, bro”: The 1975’s Matty Healy on why the band chose to use a limited amount of gear, including a Roland JV-1080, on their new album
- Learn 4 Megadeth chords – including Dave Mustaine's signature spider!
- You won't believe the prices on these new offset Harley Benton JA-60CC and JB-62CC guitars and basses
- EART GW-2 review
- Why have Daft Punk just joined TikTok? Not for the reason you might have been hoping for
- Best multi-effects pedals 2024: Our pick of the best all-in-one guitar FX modellers
- Simon Cowell and TikTok launch StemDrop, giving you the chance to remix a new song by Max Martin
- How to use Alchemy as a sampler in Logic Pro
- October 18
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- Strymon has released its first plugin: the BigSky reverb
- The new Apple iPad probably isn’t the affordable music-making tablet you were hoping for
- Celebrate the 30th birthday of Stone Temple Pilots' Core album with this Dead & Bloated guitar lesson
- Electro-Harmonix Ripped Speaker review
- Courtney Love’s custom-built Fender Venus listed on Reverb
- Arturia MiniFreak: 5 things you need to know
- Arturia’s new MiniFreak is a polyphonic hybrid synth that goes where the MicroFreak didn’t... and it comes with a free VST version
- Arturia’s MiniFuse 4 audio interface finally gets its time to shine
- Meet Arturia MiniLab 3, “the world’s first eco-designed MIDI keyboard”
- Arturia’s Augmented Grand Piano is a reality: atmospheric new instrument blends samples and synthesis
- Positive Grid is getting cinematic with the tones for its new OMNYSS amps and effects plugin
- Roland's retro-futuristic D-Flux concept electronic drum set is about as far away from 2022 V-Drums as we can imagine
- Issue 389 of Future Music is out now
- Faith Guitars marks its 20th anniversary with the luxurious PJE-designed Twenty Legacy Series
- Watch Burls Art turn 700 sheets of newspaper into a sweet-sounding solid-body electric guitar
- Roland’s stunning new digital piano fuses traditional materials and futuristic design
- How to create an effects pedal board in Ableton Live
- CopperSound goes super-compact with the revamped Gravity Bomb V2 Clean Boost and Renegade fuzz
- SSL’s 4K B channel strip plugin gives you the sound of the console used for recording Phil Collins' In The Air Tonight
- "It's not one of the best guitars, it's the best guitar": Noel Gallagher's Custom Silver Sparkle Les Paul up for grabs - again
- Donner drops the DMK-25 Pro, a portable MIDI keyboard that promises “a complete music production experience”
- Ableton Note first look: the closest you’ll get to Ableton Live on your iPhone?
- Ableton Note is a new track-starting iOS app for Ableton Live users
- October 17
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- GPU Audio reveals Major, the first synth plugin to be powered by your graphics card
- The Walrus Eons is the most versatile fuzz pedal of 2022 and this demo proves it
- Minimal Audio Morph EQ review
- KV331 Audio gives its SynthMaster Player plugin away for free: 2,000 presets for nothing
- High school students cover Michael Jackson’s thriller using 11 vintage and modern synths
- Lizzy McAlpine, John Mayer and Jacob Collier perform Never Gonna Be Alone together for the first time
- Hail, hail rock 'n' roll: the Chuck Berry story
- Fender's CEO says company finding out half of new guitar players are female was a "complete shocker"
- How to use breaks to create chill-hop drums with Native Instruments Battery
- These 4 products from the Focusrite family give you everything you need to start recording guitar on your computer
- October 16
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- October 14
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- Ludwig and Anderson .Paak launch two Pee .Wee signature snare drums via Reverb
- PreSonus Studio One 6 review
- PreSonus Studio One 6’s new workflow enhancements make it the ideal hub for all your digital content creation needs
- Brian Eno collaborators on his new album: “He’s great at making fabulous sounds using Logic soft synths and some third-party plugins… the days of him using modular synths are long gone”
- George Fitzgerald: "Serum is one of the best synthesizers ever made, hardware or software"
- Hans Zimmer reveals his favourite soft synth plugin and explains why MIDI “saved his life”
- Red Hot Chili Peppers’ John Frusciante reveals his love of Genesis keyboard player Tony Banks: “I put him up there with the Beatles for coming up with imaginative chord progressions”
- The ultimate beginner's guide to tuning and EQing drums
- Best pianos 2024: Our pick of acoustic and digital options for home, studio and stage
- October 13
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- Keith McMillen’s updated K-Board MIDI controller gets a USB-C port and comes in five colour options
- Remute continues his vintage console odyssey with the release of an album for the Sega Dreamcast
- Gear up with great new guitars, amps and pedals from Gibson, Epiphone, Kramer, Maestro and Mesa Boogie
- CEntrance’s Bouncer is a compact 10-channel mini mixer/recorder for DAW-free jamming with your synths and drum machines
- Classic Interview: Tom DeLonge talks Blink-182 evolution – "We were nowhere near as good as Travis, but we got better"
- Learn Keith Richards-style guitar riffs with Mandy Rowden and Elixir® Strings
- Jackson American Series Soloist SL3 review
- The ultimate producer's guide to reverb
- Eddie Van Halen guested on a Chris Cornell song – and you can hear it
- EastWest Forbidden Planet review
- ToneGym’s free Music Theory 101 gives you a crash course in notes, scales, intervals, chords, rhythm and notation
- Beatport DJ's new Party Mode lets four DJs play together from anywhere in the world
- October 12
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- Heart's Nancy Wilson selling guitars from the band's live history
- GPU’s Audio’s free Modulation plugin bundle is powered by your computer’s graphics card
- Burl you know it's true: two stunning additions to the EVH Wolfgang Standard Exotic line of guitars
- Boy Meets Girl on writing hits for Whitney Houston: “How Will I Know was written in our garage”
- Is the Valeton GP-200LT now the guitar multi-fx to beat for value?
- Cherry Audio Elka-X review
- Future Music is 30: vote for the greatest instruments and artists since 1992
- Spectral Plugins’ Spacer effect uses reverb and delay to deliver “new sonic expanses”
- Teenage Engineering’s TX-6 field mixer can now generate a click track based on live beat tracking of incoming audio
- Take a look inside Italo Brutalo's analogue synth paradise
- Josh Klinghoffer on Red Hot Chili Peppers' The Monarchy Of Roses: “That’s an example of band members and writers of the song hearing it differently"
- October 11
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- PRS unveils a Robben Ford McCarty signature guitar and new 20-watt HDRX amp
- The new Tim Henson Ibanez signature guitar is a nylon-string – and it's relatively affordable too
- You can now buy pickups direct from Gibson
- Fender launches the American Vintage II Series, recreating classic Strats, Teles, Jazzmaster and basses for a new generation
- Bitwig backs down and makes Spectral Suite part of its Upgrade Plan: “We apologise for how we handled this and want to make this right”
- Watch Tedeschi Trucks Band cover Sign Of The Times by Harry Styles
- Live music crisis: Animal Collective the latest to cancel a tour due to "unsustainable costs" in snowballing trend
- Get ready for a ‘Rendez-Vous’ with Arturia: “Special announcements” coming on 18 October
- A Gorillaz-designed Guild S-200 T-Bird owned by The Cure’s Robert Smith is going up for auction
- Giles Martin says that he could only remix The Beatles’ Revolver album in stereo because of Peter Jackson’s AI-powered audio separation technology: “It opened the door”
- The Comet Is Coming: "Real World has more gear than I’ve ever seen in my life - it's a studio geek’s dream"
- Why The Wombles will never do a Revolver: “Do you think the Eagles would want Hotel California remixed when they’re dead and gone? What’s wrong with it as it is?"
- October 10
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- Bush's Gavin Rossdale on the 10 albums that changed his life, spending time with Prince and being inspired by PJ Harvey to buy Joe Walsh's Jazzmaster
- Brad Pitt reopens restored Miraval Studios: “I’m really excited to see what music comes out of here”
- 1010music is called Razzmatazz “the world’s juiciest groovebox”: mini FM percussion synth promises to blow larger rivals a raspberry
- What is the new Gibson G-Bird guitar?
- Jimmy Eat World's Fender Sessions is a great advert for the Jim Adkins JA-90 Tele
- How to customise loops and make them your own - 9 inspirational tips and tricks
- Josh Klinghoffer on Red Hot Chili Peppers: "I did a perfect 10 years with them, but for as much as I love those guys and loved playing with them, it was also enormously stifling creatively"
- Here’s how Focusrite hardware owners can download Native Instruments Massive for free
- Kirk Hammett joins Journey for Wheel In The Sky and Enter Sandman medley
- AmpliTube users: here's how to grab IK's filthy OverScream for free
- Sparks fly as crazed inventor creates a very different kind of ‘electric’ piano
- How to recreate a classic analogue signal chain in your DAW
- Call the Synthbulance! Modular rig hits the road
- October 9
- October 7
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- Kirk Windstein of Crowbar and Down has a new signature model from Solar Guitars
- Mura Masa talks us through every track on his new album, demon time
- Moog is on the case with new 60HP and 140P Eurorack housings
- Shred onstage with Wargasm and win a Jackson American Series Soloist SL3
- Synchro Arts says that its RePitch plugin is the vocal editing tool that producers and engineers have always wanted
- Watch QOTSA guitarist Troy Van Leeuwen play Stop!, Been Caught Stealing and other Jane’s Addiction classics as he fills in for Dave Navarro
- The Cure debut two new songs and the return of a former member during the first show of their European tour
- Cherry Audio’s new Sines synth plugin promises to bend waveforms to its will
- 30 albums every guitarist should hear
- Classic interview: Nickelback take on their critics –“I don’t sit there thinking, ‘I hope we win over all these f**king hipsters who hate everything.’ They hate their own parents.”
- Tom Morello was in college rock band with 2022 Nobel Prize winner in chemistry – and they were good
- Bargain beats: how to build great drum patterns for less
- Nickelback namecheck Motörhead, Guns N' Roses and Prince's Purple Rain on new song Those Days
- Here’s Thomas Dolby explaining how a synthesizer works to some Jim Henson puppets: “think of it like a fly in a matchbox”
- Catalinbread promises “maximum tone for the minimalist” with new single-knob stompbox series
- October 6
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- Music Meets Fashion - Donner Seeker Series Electric Guitars Hit the Runway
- The new Epiphone Joe Bonamassa signature guitar is an ES-335
- 10 beatmaking tips from one of hip-hop's greatest living producers, The Alchemist
- Michael Jackson’s Thriller album to get 40th anniversary making-of documentary
- Myles Kennedy explains why he switched to using the same guitar picks as Slash
- Online DAW Soundation gets a free beatmaking tool that supports realtime remote collaboration
- Boss has modded its new DS-1W distortion pedal so you don't have to
- Gretsch pays homage to Malcolm Young with the 'Red Beast' Jet signature guitar
- Man celebrates the 50th anniversary of owning his Minimoog, which he bought in 1972
- October 5
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- Jimmy Page looks back on Led Zeppelin III: "We didn’t want to be a band that was known for singles"
- Sugar Bytes’ Graindad plugin could be a realtime granular FX processor to cherish
- Eastman E20OOSS/V and E20SS/V review
- Teenage Engineering and Love Hultèn’s CHD-4 ‘heartbeat drum machine’ has a very special purpose
- Lewitt offers a step-change with new dual-USB Connect 6 audio interface that offers computer and mobile integration
- Male extreme metal guitarists: are you only playing guitar to impress other men?
- James Blake signs on as the first Rhodes ambassador for the new MK8 electric piano
- Swedish House Mafia want you to hack their new IKEA range: “It’s going to be nice to see if someone takes our hacks and makes their own hacks”
- The Sabre joins Music Man's more affordable Sterling line at last
- Snow joke: you can now get Fender Tweed ski goggles
- Fatboy Slim still thinks that everybody needs a 303… but not a clone
- How to scratch DJ with DMC World Champion JFB
- Rammstein guitarist Richard Kruspe takes his ESP guitar onto the streets of Mexico City for a singalong of Du Hast with fans
- The story of Slash's signature Marshall amps and how they capture his classic tones
- October 4
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- New BBC documentary celebrates the life and work of “Hollywood Rebel” Hans Zimmer
- Gibson introduces new Faded Series, with satin nitro finishes as standard for a classy retro look
- New PreSonus Studio One 6 - What You Need to Know
- Chris Cornell’s ‘Rusty Cage’ Gretsch G7655 Chet Atkins Tennessean is up for sale on Reverb for a cool $395,000
- Country legend Loretta Lynn dies aged 90
- Join Zakk Wylde’s Berzerker Guitar Camp and he’ll teach you how to play guitar just like him
- Fender officially launches the Aerodyne Special Series – and you can now hear and see its new Japanese models in action
- Depeche Mode announce new album Momento Mori and tour dates, confirm live lineup for 2023
- Jacob Collier on his live album of improvised piano covers: “I set myself the challenge of playing a spontaneous rendition of a different song every night on tour”
- Learn to play My Iron Lung on guitar from Radiohead's classic album The Bends
- Wolfgang Van Halen says everyone in the VH camp is too “dysfunctional” to make a tribute show happen
- Epiphone Jerry Cantrell 'Wino' Les Paul Custom and Les Paul Custom Prophecy review
- Cherry Audio warns that there are “dangerous curves ahead” as it teases an “original and sensational synthesizer”
- "His phrasing is spectacular" – Myles Kennedy tells us the two players he thinks are carrying the torch for guitar
- Korg’s flexible SQ-64 sequencer is currently on sale for just $199.99 in the US
- AmyElle: "Don’t try to be anyone else. Push the boundaries and do it because you love it"
- The Akai MPC Key 61 has changed the game… again
- Ringo Starr has COVID, forcing pause of tour
- Roland announces six new TD-17, TD-27 and VAD series electronic drum sets
- October 3
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- Serato brings stem separation to its DJ software: “I'm telling you, my brain is on fire” says DJ Jazzy Jeff
- 5 blues guitar grooves to learn for your next jam session
- Harley Benton Evil Twin overdrive pedal review
- Slate Digital acquired by SSL owner Audiotonix: “I’m so proud of what our team has been able to achieve over the past decade,” says Steven Slate
- Here are the 80 greatest piano intros, played one after the other and recorded in one take
- Thomann’s latest crazy deal sees the amazing PRS SE P20 slashed to only £268
- Befaco AC/DC review
- Akai Pro releases more playable and responsive LPK25 and LPD8 Mk2 mini MIDI controllers
- Cosey Fanni Tutti: "We’re a long way from resolving the issues faced by female electronic musicians"
- October 1