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- December 23
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- Joe Satriani, Mikael Akerfeldt and 18 more pro guitarists on the gear they want for Christmas
- Guitarist launches Tone Lounge video series
- Jimmy Eat World's Jim Adkins: my 12 tips for guitarists
- Arturia's free MiniFilter V is a Moog-style ladder filter plugin with bells on
- On the radar: Broken Witt Rebels
- December 22
- December 21
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- Hofner fires up 2 affordable Ignition bass guitars
- 10 questions for The Blue Aeroplanes' Mike Youe
- Interview: Metallica's James Hetfield and Kirk Hammett on their tonal evolution, the art of the riff and justice for Lars
- Mercuriall Audio fires up its Marshall-modelling Spark amp sim plugin
- Octave One's Lenny Burden looks back over a 30-year career in techno
- December 20
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- NAMM 2017: Korn's Brian 'Head' Welch signs with ESP Guitars
- Billy Gibbons reveals tone secrets, Hendrix's Strat tips and Clapton's confession
- Sander Van Doorn: the 10 tracks that blew my mind
- JANUARY ISSUE OF RHYTHM OUT NOW!
- NAMM 2017: ESP reveals a raft of new guitars and basses for 2017
- Pioneer DJ upgrades its flagship Serato DJ controller to create the DDJ-SZ2
- 8 great affordable delay units
- December 19
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- NAMM 2017: Martin unveils 2 Millionth Guitar with built-in watch and £127k D-200 Deluxe acoustics
- Me in my studio: Dave Seaman
- Weezer drummer Pat Wilson on the band's past, present and future
- The 10 best electronic music artists of 2016
- 5 minutes alone: Nuno Bettencourt
- Zap your guitar amp's mosquito tone with Amptweaker's DeFizzerator pedal
- Supro unveils 3 guitar amp extension cabinets
- Tony Visconti on producing with Bowie: Intuition, mind-reading and 48 years of experience
- PiL drummer Bruce Smith on 40 years of post-punk
- 25 top DJs and producers on what they really want for Christmas
- December 16
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- Total Guitar 288 on sale now: 20 Easy Guitar Tricks
- Klevgrand's latest synth can create "thriving and organic" pad sounds
- SampleRadar: 277 free cyborg beats samples
- Wizdom Music's GeoShred 2 arrives with MPE support
- Chad Smith's intimate ACM/Rhythm masterclass hits London
- Deryck Whibley on the perilous personal journey behind Sum 41's 13 Voices
- Under the microscope: Jimi Hendrix's Epiphone FT79 acoustic guitar
- Feel the force of Cog Effects' Rogue One octave fuzz pedal
- DMGAudio's new Track range contains five plugins, including a free one
- December 15
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- Native Instruments is giving you a slightly creepy vintage toy instrument for Christmas
- Instantly set and recall the sweet spot on any knob with Guitar Clutch
- 3 wise drummers choose the winner of Yamaha's #FUTUREBEAT competition
- The 10 best record producers of 2016
- Switch, balance and blend 3 guitars with TheGigRig's Three2One Guitar Selector pedal
- The 6 best new guitar innovations of 2016
- EMG's Retro Active guitar pickups "react unlike anything heard before"
- Issue 313 of Future Music is on sale now
- The 11 biggest guitar personalities in the world right now
- The 8 best new guitarists in the world right now
- December 14
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- 10 questions for Area 11's Alex Parvis
- Watch Celldweller discuss the production techniques behind the new Circle of Dust album
- Tim Exile shows the love by giving you his Flows algorithmic loop sequencer for free
- Watch Devin Townsend demo his signature Mooer Ocean Machine delay/reverb pedal
- Get experimental with Koma Elektronik's new Field Kit workstation
- Uli Jon Roth: my top 5 tips for guitarists
- PRS unveils final Private Stock Guitar of the Month, the Ziricote Hollowbody II Piezo
- G-Sonique's FM Wave XR7 synth looks to the past and the future
- Warpaint drummer Stella Mozgawa on Heads Up, vintage tones and programmed beats
- Now NI's Maschine supports Ableton Link
- December 13
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- Classic album: The All Seeing I on Pickled Eggs & Sherbet
- Review round-up: advanced guitar amp modellers
- The 6 best new creative effect plugins of 2016
- MIDI Orchestration for Beginners
- Blast from the past: Clavia Nord Modular
- NAMM 2017: Black Cat unveils OD-Fuzz Deluxe guitar effects pedal
- The 5 best new drum plugins of 2016
- NAMM 2017: Mad Professor captures sought-after vintage amp tone with Big Tweedy Drive pedal
- It turns out that the MacBook Pro's Touch Bar can be used as a piano
- December 12
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- The 10 best new soundware plugins of 2016
- Me and my guitar: Oli Herbert (All That Remains)
- NAMM 2017: Schecter unveils 28 guitars for 2017
- The 10 best new mixing/mastering plugins of 2016
- DJ Fresh: 5 things I've learned about music production
- Trash your audio with Nomad Factory's "mind-bending" Garbage LSD plugin
- December 9
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- Jimi Hendrix's Woodstock wah pedal up for auction
- Maschine Jam is now compatible with Bitwig Studio
- Plankton Electronics launches new affordable modular synth on Kickstarter
- Ice Nine Kills' Spencer Charnas: 10 records that changed my life
- Jack Savoretti: the 10 records that changed my life
- Empress launches limited-edition 10th anniversary Tremolo pedal
- NAMM 2017: Gretsch introduces Cliff Gallup Signature Duo Jet guitar
- December 8
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- The 5 best new headphones of 2016
- This video from Korg tells you more about the Monologue
- Watch Joel Stroetzel play acoustic guitar and discuss Killswitch Engage's legacy
- The Tracktion DAW Essentials Collection gives you 16 plugins for $99
- Greg Lake dies aged 69: music stars react and pay tribute
- Watch Super Mario creator Shigeru Miyamoto play the Nintendo classic's theme on guitar
- Thomann launches new download service with deals on music software
- Story Behind The Song: Pearl Jam's Alive
- AudioThing's Filterjam is a free multiband resonant filter plugin that you can download today
- IK Multimedia unveils iRig Nano Amp, an affordable micro amp with built-in iOS interface
- December 7
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- Bastl Instruments ends the year with three new DIY offerings
- Dave Mustaine reviews Metallica's Hardwired… To Self-Destruct
- Watch Red Hot Chili Peppers' Josh Klinghoffer film fans instead of playing guitar solo
- 5 minutes alone: Wilko Johnson
- Steinberg releases three versions of Cubase 9, adding user-requested features
- The 6 best new monitor speakers of 2016
- NAMM 2017: Epiphone's Brendon Small 'Snow Falcon' Flying V guitar takes flight
- Japandroids' Brian King talks Telecasters, his almighty 4-amp guitar rig and the band's surprise return
- Nita Strauss signs with Marshall Amps
- u-he's analogue-style Repro-1 synth has been released
- December 6
- December 5
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- Watch a man play and shoot a guitar made from a shotgun
- Cableguys' TimeShaper lets you "shape the flow of time" and create multiple effects
- The 10 best new outboard/hardware effects of 2016
- Opeth's Martin 'Axe' Axenrot talks new album Sorceress
- Supro launches amp-like Tremolo guitar effects pedal
- This multi-effect app from VirSyn promises "studio-quality" processing on your iOS device
- Gretsch unveils 3 limited-edition Falcon and Penguin guitars
- Try BandLab's new free mastering service and win a Strat!
- December 2
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- Rig tour: The Sore Losers
- Play a new kind of Tube with Fender and TfL's Night Tube Stratocaster guitar
- The Workshop: How to clean your drum hardware
- UB40's Ali Campbell: my top 10 crucial reggae albums
- Kelvin Jones talks blues, acoustics and firing TVs into space
- In pictures: 13 D'Angelico guitars reimagined as works of art
- New guitar gear of the month: review round-up (December 2016)
- NAMM 2017: Ernie Ball Music Man reveals radical new looks for 2017 guitars and basses
- Never standing still: celebrate 50 years of Yamaha electric guitars
- December 1
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- Win two tickets to an intimate Chad Smith Masterclass at ACM London!
- IK Multimedia adds 7 more iconic Fender guitar amps to AmpliTube
- New tech gear of the month: review round-up (December 2016)
- The Tiny TS is the credit card- sized synth you'll want in your wallet
- This is the first new EMI-badged microphone in over half a century
- Kaossilator is the first Korg music making app for Android devices
- Fender Custom Shop honours The Band's Robbie Robertson with Last Waltz Stratocaster guitar
- Rodrigo y Gabriela: how metal and busking led to our acoustic success
- Vintage Synth Trumps 2 is the synth fan's ultimate card game
- Vengeance-Sound releases VPS Avenger, an epic new supersynth