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- December 20
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- NI achieves a timestretch goal as Maschine gets a new audio plugin
- Let the bells ring out for Ample Sound’s free steel tongue drum plugin
- Death By Audio unleashes Absolute Destruction, its “most insane pedal yet”
- The worst Christmas album covers ever: part 1
- 10 questions for The Xcerts’ Murray Macleod
- Billie Joe Armstrong is selling off a load of Green Day guitar gear
- December 19
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- Biyang releases LiveMaster, an affordable modular guitar pedalboard
- The Roadie 2 tunes your guitar automatically, even in noisy environments
- Fredric Effects unveils BugCrusher analogue sample rate reducer pedal
- NAMM 2018: RockBoard announces redesigned pedalboard range
- Steel Panther’s Satchel and Lexxi Foxx: the secrets to a successful guitarist-bassist partnership
- December 18
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- NAMM 2018: Tosin Abasi announces his own guitar company
- Bend and twist your iOS sounds with the Elastic FX multi-effect app
- Native Instruments wants to make your holiday happier by giving you a free phaser plugin and money off its software
- NAMM 2018: ESP debuts a host of new guitars and basses, including signature, multi-scale, Evertune and Black Metal models
- Drums gear of the year 2017
- Guitar gear of the year 2017
- Dexibell’s Vivo S1 gives you the sound of an acoustic piano in a compact digital keyboard
- Novation’s Launchpad Arcade lets anyone remix songs in their web browser
- Music tech gear of the year 2017
- December 15
- December 14
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- Akai iMPC Pro 2 for iPad lets you record audio tracks and use Audio Units
- Get yourself some textural healing with Sugar Bytes’ “majestic” Aparillo plugin synth
- Classic synth and drum machine emulations appear on Behringer’s website, but then the company says that they don’t actually exist
- Faith unveils PJE Legacy Series acoustic guitars with torrefied tops
- Seymour Duncan recreates the sound of Megadeth’s Rust In Peace with Dave Mustaine Thrash Factor pickup
- December 13
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- The 7 best new guitar innovations of 2017
- The 12 best new guitar effects pedals of 2017
- One Bit: 5 things we’ve learned about music production
- The 10 biggest guitar personalities in the world right now
- The 17 best bass players in the world right now
- The 14 best new guitarists in the world right now
- Disney-Pixar and Córdoba announce Coco acoustic guitars
- Algoriddim’s djay Pro 2 makes it easier to create playlists and offers AI-powered auto-mixing
- The Guitarwrist makes jewellery out of artist-played guitar strings then sells them for charity
- The 16 best alternative guitarists in the world right now
- The 17 best blues guitarists in the world right now
- December 12
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- Strymon launches the Zuma R300, “the most technologically advanced low-profile effects pedal power supply”
- Sepultura's Iggor Cavalera: "It was too much theory; all I wanted to do was to play some drums. I dropped out after a few weeks."
- Can your speaker display song lyrics in real time? This one can
- Dr Z collaborates with Joe Walsh for Z-Plus guitar amp
- AudioThing’s new top-end enhancer has a Type A personality
- The Anthology XI bundle contains all of Eventide’s plugins and is currently available for half price
- Def Leppard's Phil Collen: “We worked. We went somewhere. I came out of Hysteria a better player”
- Rocco Prestia: “If you attack everything like it’s the first time you ever played it, it’ll stay fresh and will lead to new ideas”
- Electro-Harmonix announces reissue of Op-Amp Big Muff Pi pedal, as heard on Smashing Pumpkins’ Siamese Dream
- December 11
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- Yamaha CS-80: MusicRadar retro hands-on
- Fulltone readies Full-Drive 1 overdrive pedal
- This new software promises to automatically create stem files out of any song
- Sharing sounds with Soundmondo makes the Yamaha Reface range all the more enjoyable and couldn’t be easier
- Kenny Wayne Shepherd: “A Hardtail Strat is more appealing to me than one with a vibrato - it rings so true”
- Mike Clark talks early heroes and the key to drumming longevity: "It was all about swinging hard”
- December 8
- December 7
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- Leftwing & Kody: 5 things we’ve learned about music production
- New guitar gear of the month: review round-up (December 2017)
- EastWest’s epic Hollywood Choirs will sing any word or phrase you want
- Get AN EXTRA 20% off Guitarist magazine. Our festive flash sale ends TODAY!
- Get a free DX7 synth emulation on your iPad
- Dead Kennedys bassist Klaus Flouride: “If you want to make the stuff that you play stand out, you need to leave a lot around it”
- December 6
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- The top 5 music tech personalities in the world today
- The best new iOS apps and hardware of 2017
- The best new DJ gear of 2017
- Overloud’s Sculptube looks like an analogue hardware processor and promises to sound like one
- Faith announces Naked Series Cedar/Mahogany and Black Stain electro-acoustic guitars
- Soda promises to quench your thirst for a different kind of iOS DJing app
- Talking Shop: Ian Chang
- Hear the difference between a Kemper profile and a real amp on a recorded track
- Way Huge unveils limited-edition Drive pedal
- Make your mixes “loud and clear” with FabFilter’s Pro-L 2 limiter plugin
- The top 5 hip-hop and trap artists/producers in the world right now
- The top 5 downtempo, electronica and underground producers in the world right now
- The top 5 electronic live acts in the world right now
- Me and my guitar: Bring Me The Horizon's Lee Malia
- December 5
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- The best music tech innovations of 2017
- Hidden gems: How the Arturia DrumBrute can unlock untapped creativity and why you need it in your studio
- Rode releases its first USB audio interface as part of a new recording bundle
- The top 5 bass music DJ/producers in the world right now
- Review round-up: desktop guitar amps
- Arturia adds Buchla, DX7, Clavinet and Fairlight instruments as it releases V Collection 6
- Clapton on the future of guitar: "It's not about what's to be. It's already there"
- The top 5 trance DJ/producers in the world right now
- Dio guitarist Craig Goldy: “The hologram is supposed to be a gift to the fans, given in the same spirit in which Ronnie gave”
- December 4
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- The top 5 techno DJ/producers in the world right now
- The top 5 electro and tech house DJ/producers in the world right now
- The best new monitor speakers of 2017
- The best new virtual instrument plugins of 2017
- The best new hardware effects units of 2017
- The best new microphones of 2017
- The best new effect plugins of 2017
- 6 of the best: Jimmy Chamberlin on Smashing Pumpkins classics and jazz explorations
- Jimmy Chamberlin on drum education, developing your style and the mechanics of drumming
- The top 5 house DJ/producers in the world right now
- 10 questions for The Script’s Mark Sheehan
- This tiny analogue synth comes on a USB stick and works as a plugin
- Gordon Smith unveils new Heritage and Special Edition electric guitars
- Heavier7Strings makes it easy for anyone to create heavy rock guitar parts
- December 1