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May 31
- Talking Shop: Highasakite
- Cog Effects unveils Knightfall 66 and Mini 66 bass overdrive pedals
- Ana Popovic's top 5 tips for guitarists
- Watch Bear's Den go acoustic guitar shopping for their new album
- Inear Display introduces a Cruelle kind of distortion plugin
- From sweatbox clubs to sold-out arenas: John Fred Young on the rise and rise of Black Stone Cherry
- TC Electronic invites you to tap into your creativity with Wiretap Riff Recorder pedal
- Roland has been trying to find the digital piano of the future
- WIN! One of four BOSS Loop Station effects pedals
May 30
- 14 of Gary Moore's finest guitars, amps and effects - in pictures
- Christian Smith's top 10 tips for producers
May 27
- Slate Digital's Virtual Microphone System actually available
- Can Just Blaze's official sample pack ignite a creative spark?
- MK talks tech, technique and Hollywood A-listers
- A telecoms-inspired synth? It has a nice ring to it…
- The story of John Lennon's lost Gibson J-160E acoustic guitar
- Nothing drummer Kyle Kimball: 10 albums I never tire of
May 26
- Here's why you could soon be streaming DJ mixes on Spotify
- The noise of art: Pixelsynth can turn your images into music for free
- Paul Gilbert: I wrote my best guitar solo on a kazoo
- Mune controller lets you play electronic music with acoustic levels of expression
- Neck Deep's Dani Washington: "I like to be as aggressive and heavy as possible."
- PRS unveils McCarty 594 electric, John Mayer dubs it "the best new guitar I've played in years"
- Now LANDR lets you master your SoundCloud uploads automatically... for free
May 25
- In the studio: Volbeat
- Joe Perry asked Johnny Depp for guitar lessons, says Alice Cooper
- Will this Bluetooth guitar pick improve your playing?
- How to turn your guitar into a flamethrower
- 10 questions for Melvins' Buzz Osborne
- Classic album: The Count & Sinden on Mega Mega Mega
- Magix buys Acid and Sound Forge from Sony Creative Software
- Biome is the strap-on table that lets you "play anywhere, at any time"
May 24
- Real Friends' Dave Knox on reviving pop-punk with The Home Inside My Head: "It really felt like we had something at stake"
- Will D16 Group's PunchBox be a knockout kick drum synth?
- Pioneer DJ's new Tour system is ready for life on the road
- Gojira's Joe Duplantier: my top 5 tips for guitarists
- Tony Visconti shows you how to use Eventide's Bowie-inspired Tverb plugin
- Amptweaker unleashes FatMetal Pro distortion effects pedal
- Killswitch Engage's Justin Foley: my top 5 tips for drummers
- Cordoba offers exotic wood option for Mini Series acoustic guitars
- 10 of the best new sample and soundware packs (May 2016)
- Schertler reveals 5-channel, "next-generation" UNICO acoustic guitar amp
May 23
- Whitford/St Holmes talk Reunion, Aerosmith, Ted Nugent and more
- HoRNet WahWah puts a vintage '70s pedal in a plugin
- Fender Custom Shop unveils Gary Moore Stratocaster electric guitar
- DM2 iPad drum machine ditches the samples in favour of synthesis
- Adana Twins on genre boundaries and why they're not in the market for a 303
- Architects' Tom Searle and Adam Christianson: the 10 records that changed our lives
- Blast from the past: Roland Juno-106
- Win a Focusrite 8Pre and Softube plugins and enjoy super-low-latency recording
- Guild lifts the lid on Jumbo Junior acoustic guitar
- Drummer Nick Menza dies at 51: the music world reacts and pays tribute
May 20
- You answer: is it better to know how to read music or to be able to play by ear?
- In the studio: Letlive
- Shin-ei recaptures original Uni-Vibe with Vibe-Bro guitar effects pedal
- Reverbical plugin promises to make it easy to find your perfect space
- 10 ways being an electronic music producer ruins your life
- Guild's S-200 T-Bird guitar takes flight once more
- PRS Guitars Europe unveils SE Bernie Marsden Final Run models
- The Minimoog is back: Moog reissues the classic Model D
May 19
- Classic saturation modelling with the x-factor comes to T-RackS
- Gibson's American Sniper guitar features bullet shell from real firefight
- Arturia V Collection 5 lands with five new instruments and made-over classics
- Your answers: have we reached the point where digital modelling can replace valves?
- Bastl Instruments brings some melodic craziness with the bitRanger handheld synth
- FXpansion Geist2 offers new sampling and slicing features for beat makers
- Thrice talk working through tension to create To Be Everywhere Is To Be Nowhere
- This is what 6 Pocket Operator synths sound like when they're hooked up
- Zakk Wylde promises to "take your sexting to the next level" with emoji set
- Sinevibes looks to Switch things up with updated rhythmic gate sequencer
May 18
- Propellerhead Reason 9 adds MIDI processors and a Pitch Edit mode
- Free D16 Group Plugin when you Subscribe to Computer Music
- Computer Music – KICK + BASS POWER – Issue 231, July 2016
- Mooji's favourite music software
- Hugo White on making The Maccabees' Marks To Prove It
- Watch Teenage Engineering's new OP-Z in action
- 10 questions for Raging Speedhorn
- Nura headphones are designed to match their sound to your ears
- Let your music be ruled by your emotions with MIDI Sprout
- Dunlop's Billy Duffy Signature Cry Baby is two wah pedals in one
- Ripcord lets you power your synths, pedals and amps over USB
- Larrivée taps East Indian Laurel tonewood for limited-edition acoustic guitars
- Steinberg's new Dorico notation software has Sibelius pedigree
- Could iZotope's VocalSynth be the only vocal FX plugin you need?
May 17
- Me and my guitar: Jon Hudson (Faith No More)
- Dr. No's MotherBrain is the thinking guitarist's analogue delay pedal
- Yeco is a new way to control Ableton Live
- 10 ways David Bowie blew our minds
- Sign o' the tines: free Sweetcase 'vintage' electric piano plugin
- Did choosing the right compressor just get a lot easier?
- "Play 100s of songs in minutes" with the RalBar three-string electric guitar
- Free PG-8X 2 plugin synth emulates Roland's JX-8P
- Apple puts China's instruments in your hand with GarageBand updates
May 16
- In pictures: Max Richter's Oxfordshire studio
- Behind the PRS CE: how the Classic Electric guitar returned
- FREE VST/AU mix-checker: DeeMonitor
- FREE Mac AU plugin: Sinevibes Cluster 2
- Thin Lizzy's Scott Gorham: my top 5 tips for guitarists
- Create instant fills, drops and rolls with the Drop-X beat repeat sampler
- Has Rob O'Reilly just produced the world's most advanced MIDI guitar system?
- MixChecker makes your speakers sound like a smartphone or a set of classic monitors
- The 10 best music producers of the '70s
- Prince's iconic Yellow Cloud guitar up for auction
- Can you handle the BASSalicious 'urban' bass synth plugin?
May 13
- Andy Summers on developing his guitar style and new album Metal Dog
- Source Audio grows app-compatible One Series with three new guitar and bass effects pedals
- Lethal weapon: does this synth open up a "new world of sound"?
- Palmer releases Batpack rechargeable pedal power supplies with enhanced battery life
- Fender branches into audio with Pro In-Ear Monitors
- SampleRadar: 366 free sparse soundscape samples
- IK Multimedia's VocaLive 3 app is both an effects processor and a recording tool
- Billy Cobham: my top 5 tips for maximising your playing
- Sign up to play the Stone Free Classic Rock Weekender
May 12
- Deadmau5 and Steve Duda take to YouTube once again to share more production secrets
- DJ Ashba's top 5 tips for guitarists
- Mr Black puts you in a TrancePortal with "breathtaking" shimmer echo guitar effects pedal
- Xfer Records just released 100 new presets for its Serum plugin synth
- Richard Hawley talks Hollow Meadows, broken bones and rare guitar finds
- Palmer launches Bass Pocket Amp pedal and preamp
May 11
- Positive Grid finalises design for world's first Tone Match distortion pedal
- Kvelertak's Vidar Landa on the band's triple-guitar assault, recording Nattesferd and touring with Metallica
- Can you complete iZotope's free 'gamified' online audio training course?
- 10 questions for Rene Benton
- Give your sounds Movement with Output's first FX plugin
- Tom Oberheim Two Voice Pro synthesizer now available in the UK
- Is Erica Synths' Pico Seq the smallest sequencer in the world?
- Organically expand your guitar tone with Rivet Pickups' mini-coils
- NI emulates classic delay units in Replika XT
May 10
- WIN! Joe Bonamassa tickets for intimate gig at the Cavern Club in Liverpool
- Lowden launches "epic-sounding" Jon Gomm Hybrid Top signature acoustic guitar
- Positive Grid introduces tone-matching component-modelled EQs
- Gary Moore: the lost interview - in-depth with a guitar legend
- Watch a Track Masterclass from Solomon Grey
- June issue of Rhythm on sale now
- Martin's Ballad of the Dreadnought documentary celebrates the iconic acoustic guitar
- Dr. No Effects unveils stunning, symbolic Alain Johannes 11:11 guitar effects pedal
- Old gold: 1961 Gibson ES-330
- Now you can have a free 'weather machine' in your DAW
- Sinevibes' Alternator plugin synth will make your music move
May 9
- Korn's Brian 'Head' Welch: the 10 records that changed my life
- The world's first 3D-printed aluminium guitar has arrived and its name is Heavy Metal
- Me in my studio: Starwalker
- Elite evolution: the making of Fender's Elite Tele and Strat guitars
- This eye-popping Ghost In The Shell guitar is an ingenious manga/anime tie-in
May 6
- Charlotte de Witte's top 10 tips for producers
- A brief history of the dreadnought acoustic guitar
- SampleRadar: 330 free retro house samples
- Collings evokes guitars of the '30s with T Series dreadnought and OM acoustics
- Blocs Wave for iOS has just got a whole lot better
- You could soon be experiencing live music on a VR headset
- Total Guitar issue 280 on sale now: Record Your Guitar
- Adrian Utley explains his love of Eventide's Space reverb
- Opeth's Mikael Akerfeldt: my top 9 tips for guitarists
- Blackbird's El Capitan guitar is made from linen and industrial waste but looks and sounds like wood
- Get Hammond B3-style vibrato and chorus with PSP's B-Scanner plugin
May 5
- RainSong carbon fibre acoustic guitars now available in Europe
- 5 minutes alone: Daniel P Carter
- Dean Zelinsky Guitars unveils stunning Custom Engraved Johnny Winter signature model
- Issue 305 of Future Music is on sale now
- Is Sensus "the first real smart guitar"?
- Get the sound of a Fender Precision bass for free in your DAW
May 4
- The Range on his early influences, latest album and working entirely in the box
- May the Forza be with you, as Seymour Duncan unleashes new overdrive guitar effects pedal
- New guitar gear of the month: review round-up (May 2016)
- 10 questions for Tides From Nebula's Maciej Karbowski
- Do you want to go large? McTrax is the McDonald's musical placemat
- Who was the best music producer of the '70s?
- Chase Bliss Audio adds digital control to analogue delay with Tonal Recall effects pedal
- Host and combine your plugins with New Sonic Arts Freestyle
- Cort taps exotic woods for new Grand Regal acoustic guitars
- Fender '55 Tweed Deluxe amp arrives on the UAD platform
May 3
- You can now afford a Moog Model 15 synthesizer
- Mission Engineering teams up with Eventide for H9 Harmonizer expression control pedal
- New tech gear of the month: review round-up (May 2016)
- Mark Tremonti: the 14 records that changed my life
- New Richie Hawtin DJ mixer revealed
- Me in my studio: Bunki
- Noggin Rockers stethoscope-style amp is the "best guitar amplifier you'll ever own for under $20"
- Will working out in the SoundGym give you 'better ears'?
- TC Electronic introduces Sub 'N' Up Octaver effects pedal, the "new leader of the pitch pack"
May 2
- Warren Haynes's top 12 tips for guitarists