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- July 29
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- In pictures: The Field's Berlin studio
- One for the road: Steven Wilson
- Video exclusive: Alan Walker on the making of his new single 'Sing Me To Sleep'
- Total Guitar issue 283 on sale now: The Acoustic Crash Course
- 15 steps to creating Yamaha drums
- 10 questions for Jamie Lawson
- Behringer's new polysynth finally gets a name
- July 28
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- Watch Steve Vai, Joe Satriani and Guthrie Govan jam rock classics as G3
- Watch Victor Wooten demo Hartke's TX600 bass amp
- Issue 308 of Future Music is on sale now
- The Eiosis e2deesser plugin wants to be your ultimate deessing tool
- Mesa/Boogie gets into the signal-management game with 4 new buffer and line-driver pedals
- 9 alternative Gretsch guitar icons
- July 27
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- Could Nels Cline's ToneConcepts GOO pedal be "the solution to all your distortion needs"?
- Jack White's label will attempt to play the first record in space and here's how you can see it
- Europe's Joey Tempest: how I wrote The Final Countdown
- As 808 clones go, the 8raw8 is beautiful and promises to be affordable
- Arturia's KeyStep is out now and this video might convince you to buy one
- Pirate Guitar Effects weighs anchor with the Plank Overdrive and Boost pedal
- Erica Synths wants you to experiment with its DIY Synth Voice
- PRS lifts the lid on lavish Private Stock Grainger 5 Fretless Bass
- July 26
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- Gorgon City's Matt Robson-Scott on how they made it big with their distinctly British sound
- This is what 1,200 musicians playing Smells Like Teen Spirit at once sounds like
- Liine Skram is now free and update comes with new features
- Kirk Hammett's KHDK Electronics unleashes Scuzz Box fuzz pedal
- Nathaniel Rateliff: the 10 records that changed my life
- On the radar: Trixie Whitley
- Led Zeppelin Stairway To Heaven trial goes to appeal
- The Electro-Harmonix Mini-Synthesizer comes to iOS
- July 25
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- Gregor Tresher's favourite music software
- Can 'ear training' make you a better musician and producer?
- On the road: Thrice
- What the fugue? Keeley Electronics' Hooke Reverb pedal delivers organ reverb tones
- Behringer announces its analogue polysynth will feature 12 voices
- In the studio: Blues Pills' Dorian Sorriaux talks Lady In Gold
- Josh Dun on humble beginnings, hit records and the monster success of Twenty One Pilots
- Seymour Duncan embraces the '70s with Saturday Night Special guitar pickups
- July 22
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- TC is offering you his new album as stems
- Korg Electribes get a makeover and OS update
- Beetronics takes flight with two stunning relic'd guitar effects pedals
- Meet the programmers: Audiority
- Ableton Live 9.7 is in public beta and promises big improvements
- Keeley Electronics' Bubble Tron pedal assembles "the vintage effect classics that never were"
- Panama Guitars launches Road Series ER extended-range amp cabinets
- Huey Morgan: 10 guitar albums that blew my mind
- The complete history of Yamaha Drums
- July 21
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- Yamaha announce FM Essential iOS app and relaunch the MX range
- Nektar's new Impact LX+ range aims to take its controller keyboards to the next-level
- Reverend triggers optic interruption with Jenn Wasner signature guitar
- Start me up: Monster Truck's Jeremy Widerman
- HoRNet's Spikes gives you one-knob transient control
- Meet the Segacaster, a guitar made out of a Sega Genesis/Mega Drive
- Blink-182 producer John Feldmann on the band's triumphant return and the music that inspired him
- Can you guess Fender's 3 most popular guitar finishes?
- July 20
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- Xotic's California Classic Series features "the finest attention to detail in boutique guitars available today"
- In the studio: Russian Circles talk new album Guidance
- 10 questions for Ed Harcourt
- Supro goes large with Big Star 2x12 guitar amp and Titan cab
- The Minimoog Model D is back in production
- Hotone's Xtomp crams 300 guitar effects into one low-profile pedal
- Periphery's Matt Halpern: 10 drummers that blew my mind
- July 19
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- Behringer's new synth is in fact a poly!
- DOD's Carcosa pedal promises to take you to an "alternate fuzz universe"
- The Onde Magnétique OM-1 Tape Synthesizer is cassette-revivalist's dream
- Video exclusive: watch Vicetone dissect their latest track, Nevada
- Billy Talent's Ian D'Sa: the 10 records that changed my life
- Italia signs Beach Boys' Jeffery Foskett for ITJF12 signature 12-string guitar
- Watch Coldplay and Michael J Fox perform Back To The Future songs live
- Waves Scheps Parallel Particles "attitude shaper" plugin looks like a video game
- July 18
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- Ben Monder talks playing on David Bowie's Blackstar and the New York jazz world
- Classic album: Classic album: Blame & Justice on Icon's Emotions With Intellect
- Marshall Amplification launches record label, Marshall Records
- Paul Jones on the drum gear that powers drum 'n' bass maestros Sigma
- Me in my studio: Model Aeroplanes
- On the road: Kentucky Headhunters
- Ibanez bolsters Iron Label guitar range with S Series models
- Adam Monroe is offering you a free VST/AU Tremolo plugin
- Italia dares you to take on its new Modena Challenge electric guitar
- Pete Townshend talks Fender Custom Shop Stratocaster
- July 15
- July 14
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- Waves thinks it can give you '3D sound' on your existing headphones
- Who needs to learn scales if you've got AutoTonic?
- Money can buy you Happiness - Dwarfcraft Devices' new multi-mode filter pedal
- Reverb Solo plugin lets you use one knob to dial in "a world of reverb sounds"
- Keith Richards reveals the one guitar he couldn't live without
- July 13
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- 10 questions for Dylan Carlson
- Computer Music – THE CREATIVE GUIDE TO VOCALS – issue 233
- In pictures: Gold Panda's studio
- 10 of the best guitarists at Bloodstock 2016
- Eventide's H910 pitch shifter is now available as a $99 VST/AU plugin
- Danelectro ups the ante with 4 new electric guitar and bass models
- ESP Japan unveils fastest guitars yet with Sonic The Hedgehog 25th Anniversary models
- Vice One – FREE VST/AU Compressor worth $49.99 with Computer Music 233
- July 12
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- Joyo releases Nebulous Phase mini pedal
- How to record studio-quality electric guitar tracks at home
- Fender unveils Flea Jazz Bass
- Periphery's Misha Mansoor: my top 5 tips for guitarists
- Waves offers you a 'road-worn' Rhodes with the Electric 88 Piano
- Arthur is the modular mixer that you can design and build yourself
- Faderfox is on the case with the UC44 'universal controller'
- July 11
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- Peavey's 6505 Piranha Micro Head surfaces
- Track-by-track: Rainbow Ffolly on their first album in 48 years, Ffollow Up!
- Steve Davis: the 10 records that changed my life
- New drum gear of the month: review round-up (July 2016)
- Don't bother learning guitar: this mechanical contraption does the hard work for you
- Computer hardware orchestra plays the theme from Star Wars
- Joe Perry collapses onstage during Hollywood Vampires gig
- Les Paul: the man behind the machine
- Gojira's Mario Duplantier talks Magma, programmed beats and chasing Lars' sound
- July 8
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- Wylde Audio teases Barbarian electric guitar
- StereoDelta plugin promises spatial control using a single knob
- Roni Size on the continuing success of Reprazent, live and in the studio
- 9 WTF?! guitarist TV appearances
- Has Mr Black created "the perfect digital delay" pedal?
- AC/DC bassist Cliff Williams to retire after world tour
- Behringer's new analogue synth sounds "proper ballsy", apparently
- Start me up: Phillip Henry
- July 7
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- Matrix Elements launches new FRFR guitar cabs for amp modellers
- 10 questions for The Temperance Movement's Paul Sayer
- MOTi's top 10 production tips: from track starting to mastering
- Bruce Foxton's top 5 tips for bassists
- Unfiltered Audio's Fault lets you play with pitch and time
- Epiphone unveils Masterbilt Century Acoustic Archtop guitars
- Alex Torjussen's guide to session stardom
- July 6
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- FingerFiddle turns your iOS device into a playable string instrument
- Rane set to join Numark and Denon DJ in the inMusic stable
- Amptweaker unveils trio of new feature-packed Bass Jr effects pedals
- Russian Circles' Mike Sullivan: the 11 records that changed my life
- u-he's Urs Heckmann talks synths, programming and modular mayhem
- On the road: Dustie Waring on Between The Buried And Me's massive Tech-Fest headline slot
- Exclusive: Eric Clapton's 'Beano' Les Paul is "in US collection", claims Joe Bonamassa
- Xotic launches two-channel RC Booster V2 guitar effects pedal
- Add some "secret mixing sauce" with Waves and Infected Mushroom's Pusher plugin
- July 5
- July 4
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- Audient launches new compact audio interface - the iD4
- Derrick Wright on cattle call auditions, gospel chops and backing Adele
- Pest control: new VR game lets you play at being Deadmau5
- One for the road: Damien O'Kane
- New guitar gear of the month: review round-up (July 2016)
- Retronyms Hook promises "the clip launching of Ableton Live in a multitouch environment"
- Korg and Bandai Namco bring '80s video game sounds to Gadget with Kamata
- July 1
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- XOXX Composer is a latter-day music box
- Total Guitar issue 282 on sale now: The Blues Rock Toolkit
- SampleRadar: 410 free filter fun samples
- Will you help fund the Chicago 'riff and bass' analogue synthesizer?
- Pioneer DJ adds video support to rekordbox and announces new flagship controller, the DDJ-RZX
- Turn your iPad into a 'multimorphic sound processor' with Moebius Lab
- Watch the tiny Erica Synths Pico VCO in action
- Fay Milton's five steps to drumming stardom
- Beach Slang talk songwriting, lyrics and reasons to believe
- New tech gear of the month: review round-up (July 2016)