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September 29
- Under the microscope: Johnny Winter's Firebird V
- The workshop: Stone Deaf FX
- Quintessence, TC's new harmonizer, will MASH your mind
September 28
- ROLI is releasing a more playable Lightpad Block and an enhanced version of the Noise app
- The history of the Gibson Black Beauty
- Luke Sital-Singh: "Most people’s personal experience is middle-tier drama at best"
September 27
- PRS announces Maple Limited SE Custom 24 guitar
- Sinevibes is giving away its Drift ‘dual chaos’ effect plugin for free
- Darkglass Electronics announces more affordable Microtubes 500 bass amp head and new cabs
- Ernie Ball Music Man unveils radical limited-edition St Vincent guitar finishes
- Fender debuts Emerald Wheat Blues Deluxe Reissue amp
- 10 questions for Keb’ Mo’
- Keith McMillen Instruments' BopPad drum pad is now available
- Slate Digital releases FG-Stress, its Empirical Labs Distressor emulation
September 26
- The Zvuk9 is nine X/Y MIDI controllers in one
- Lucy Rose talks Something's Changing, living with fans in South America and songwriting perspective
- Waves turns 25 and reissues three of its classic plugins
September 25
- Brace your bank account: Noel Gallagher is selling off Oasis-era guitar and studio gear
- Head to head review: Line 6 Helix LT vs HeadRush Pedalboard
- Fender releases California Coast ukulele series
- TC Electronic unveils affordable UniTune Clip tuner
- On the radar: The Orielles
- Frank Zappa resurrected for hologram shows and musical
- Travis Barker: "I would love to do a jazz project. That would be so much fun."
- Welcome to Mastering week
- Master and release your music the easy way with LANDR
- Plugin Alliance offers you all the tools you need to create pro-quality masters at home
September 22
- BandLab introduces new hardware range
- AudioThing’s Wave Box plugin contains dual waveshapers and a multitude of distortion delights
- Ahoy there! The Hog Shed Monster synth can be controlled using Sonar sensors
- Mike Oldfield: “It’s the age-old story. Out of suffering comes beauty”
- This free Ozone plugin from iZotope can add width and life to your music
- How Fishman shook up the pickup world with Fluence
- Propellerhead announces Reason 10: “the biggest upgrade we’ve ever done”
September 21
- UVI’s OB Legacy is a collection of Oberheim’s greatest synth hits
- Sepultura bassist Paulo Pinto Jr: "I always have problems in the studio"
- The Novatron compressor sounds like hardware but could only exist in software, says Kush Audio
- Issue 323 of Future Music is on sale now
- Kemper unleashes free Ton(e)hammer Rig Pack
- Eventide and Newfangled Audio are letting you download their $99 EQuivocate ‘human ear’ EQ plugin for free
- Dan Auerbach in-depth: "I’ve always felt like the underdog"
- Introducing: Bad Sounds drummer Olivia Dimery
- London Drum Show 2017: more top gear and stars confirmed!
September 20
- Keeley Electronics drops Germanium Super Phat Mod
- Shergold Guitars unveils SM04SD Masquerader
- IK Multimedia’s Syntronik app puts the sounds of 37 synths in your iPad
- Shiver yer timbers with a skull and crossbones guitar
- Sterling By Music Man St Vincent STV60 - MusicRadar hands-on
- G&L unveils new Doheny offset guitars
- 10 questions for Warren Haynes
- EHX's Superego+ synth/multi-FX sounds like a tonal adventurer's dream
- Yamaha is releasing a Vocaloid keytar that you’ll probably never be able to buy
- Samplebot lets you capture, play and sequence sounds in seconds
September 19
- Will Amazon’s Alexa be your next studio assistant?
- Waves Torque lets you salvage badly-tuned drum recordings and improves their tone
- Strokes bassist Nikolai Fraiture on his new band Summer Moon
- Unfiltered Audio says that SpecOps can help you to achieve ‘full spectrum dominance’
- PreSonus introduces the StudioLive AR22: ‘a musician’s mixer’ that also records
September 18
- Enter KV331’s SynthMaster Track Contest and win up to $1,000 and software prizes
- JAM Pedals unveils LucyDreamer Supreme overdrive/boost
- Is Microsoft about to start developing music making software?
- Gomez frontman Ben Ottewell talks songwriting and his "transatlantic" solo debut
- Victory Amplification unveils Richie Kotzen Signature Heritage models
- On the radar: (Sandy) Alex G
September 16
- 5 reasons you can’t miss London Drum Show 2017
September 15
- Pioneer DJ updates XDJ standalone controller with some NXS2 features
- Steve Albini is auctioning off the microphones used to record Nirvana’s In Utero
- Dominic Miller's 10 tips for guitarists
- Allihoopa separates from Propellerhead, taking the Figure and Take apps with it
- The Playlist: Suicide Silence's Mark Heylmun
- Bring the swing to your audio with Sinevibes’ new Reshuffle plugin
September 14
- Propellerhead’s new Rack Extension lets you Layer classic ‘80s and ‘90s synth samples
- Supro's new Comet amp: the full story
September 13
- EDX’s favourite music software
- Pioneer DJ’s new DDJ-XP1 controller will help you get the most out of rekordbox 5
- Pioneer DJ rebuilds rekordbox and promises the most powerful and stable version yet
- 10 questions for The Cranberries' Noel Hogan
- Need a six-way selector switch? Mad Hatter's got you covered
- Kerry King introduces B.C. Rich KKW30 signature model
- Apple iPhone X: is it worth it for music makers?
- Phil Spalding talks 70s Denmark Street, Elton John and his most memorable sessions
September 12
- Roland drops two new V-Combo organs
- Talking Shop: Mike Schommer
- Rig tour: Dream Theater's John Petrucci
- Eric Clapton: "Maybe the guitar is over"
- Now you can download a free plugin version of Korg’s PS-3100 synth
September 11
- Can you complete SoundGym’s panning challenge?
- !!! on merging punk and electronic sensibilities and the production of their latest album
- Slash unveils signature Gibson Firebird
- Steve Earle talks So You Wanna Be An Outlaw, Martins and mandolins
- On the radar: Zeal & Ardor
- New Russian bass synth takes inspiration from Soviet era synths
September 9
- The Roland D-50 synth is back as the Boutique D-05
September 8
- Darrel Higham on his rockabilly roots and the simple secrets of his tone
- Generate random chords from MIDI notes in Ableton Live
- Boss and Strandberg join forces to create “one of the most powerful and versatile electric guitars ever made”
- Dream Theater's Mike Mangini: "I was afraid that I couldn’t do it"
- How Peter Frampton lost and then recovered his legendary Gibson Les Paul Custom
- Boss and JHS Pedals are getting Angry with each other as they launch the JB-2 drive pedal
- Pianoteq 6 arrives with an improved sound and official Steinway authorisation
- Aaron Dessner on The National’s new album Sleep Well Beast, their studio and selected songs' personal origins
- Pioneer DJ has a new mixer and controller for Serato DJ users
- SOUND DESIGN INSPIRATION – Computer Music issue 248
September 7
- Nick Oliveri on Bloodclot, bass guitars and playing dumb
- Native Instruments announces Maschine Mk3 and Komplete Kontrol Mk2, promising inspiration and non-stop creativity
- Doug Rappoport on tonal secrets, gear and the epidemic of poor rhythm
- HumBeatz turns your voice into instrument and drum parts and works in your browser
- iZotope wants to change the way your record your songs with the wireless Spire Studio
September 6
- Gibson Montana reveals 2018 acoustic guitar range
- Gibson Memphis unveils 2018 guitar range
- New guitar gear of the month: review round-up (September 2017)
- Tube & Berger on the making of new album We Are All Stars
- 10 questions for False Advertising’s Jen Hingley
September 5
- Neal Wilkinson talks the “masters” of drumming and Carole King musical Beautiful
- New tech gear of the month: review round-up (September 2017)
- Is Davie504's Chowny signature model "the best bass ever"?
- Classic Ampeg bass amps join IK Multimedia AmpliTube with SVX 2 collection
- Fender Custom Shop's Todd Krause: how I built the Last Waltz Stratocaster
- Chris Broderick’s top 5 tips for guitarists
- Elliott Garage has released a new iOS emulation of the Roland TR-606 drum machine
September 4
- Ernie Ball showcases 3 luxurious new Ball Family Reserve guitars
- Audiority invites you to get creative with its 10-algorithm XenoVerb plugin
- Darkglass Electronics debuts “beautifully brutal” Alpha Omicron dual-voiced bass distortion pedal
- Gibson reveals 2018 guitar line
- What will the iPhone X mean for musicians?
- 5 minutes alone: Mike Einziger
- Stewart Copeland, Adrian Belew and Mark King on the chemistry that fuelled unlikely new supergroup, Gizmodrome
- On the radar: Quinn Sullivan
- Furch updates Little Jane travel acoustic guitar
September 3
- Steely Dan guitarist Walter Becker dies aged 67
September 1
- Kilohearts’ Phase Distortion plugin takes a different approach to saturation and overdrive
- Warwick releases Rex Brown Artist Line bass guitar
- One for the road: Simple Minds' Charlie Burchill
- This free synth from Klevgrand could be the easiest you’ve ever used
- Joe Bonamassa on playing with Eric Clapton, Live At Carnegie Hall and why the acoustic guitar is his Kryptonite
- Vox launches affordable, Nutube-equipped VX50 bass, acoustic guitar and keyboard amps
- Vox unveils Maroon Bronco finish for AC Custom guitar amps
- The Vox Continental is back, and it’s more than just an organ
- Korg’s Kross 2 workstation promises to be the compact keyboard that does everything