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February 28
- Reactable adds motion control to its Snap drum machine, turning your dance moves into beats
- Serato DJ is now Serato DJ Pro in latest update
- Michael Schenker: “I tasted fame and success, but I preferred to start a new chapter and experiment with music”
- Blast from the past: Boss DR-110
- Behind the kit with Mark Guiliana: "What can really go wrong on stage? Nothing can go wrong.
- Gibson lays off staff at Nashville Custom Shop
- Z.Vex’s ’59 Sound pedal aims to capture the tone of a Tweed Bassman
February 27
- Soundspot’s Axis is a multiband processor that you can buy for a pocket-money price
- First look video: Fender dives into effects market with 6 new pedals
- Gibson CEO Henry Juszkiewicz: “Guitars from the ’50s are what the purists want, but we have to have something new and exciting”
- Kuassa’s WF3607 Wah Filter plugin emulates classic pedals and envelope filters
- Tone makers: Death By Audio's Oliver Ackermann
February 26
- Is Behringer making Roland Jupiter-8 and TR-909 clones?
- n-track Studio 9: DAW update looks better, works better and adds new effects
- DJ in VR with Reality Decks for Oculus Rift
- Prince bass sidekick Andre Cymone: “You couldn’t tell me I wasn’t better than everybody. I was that cocky”
- Me and my guitar: Rabea Massaad (Toska, Dorje) - "I’ve done something a bit different"
February 23
- Historic hardware: Epiphone Coronet
- Cakewalk rescued from Gibson by BandLab
- Primitive Trust on honesty in production and why you just can't beat an MPC
- London Bass Guitar Show 2018: 5 reasons you have to be there
February 22
- Who needs a Gibson Les Paul when you’ve got NI’s Electric Sunburst Session Guitarist?
- Acustica Audio says that its Azure EQ is a zero-compromise mastering solution
- Old Blood Noise Endeavors’ Flat Light is the most exciting flanger we’ve heard in ages
- Rocktron aims to capture every era of Plexi tone with new ValveSonic all-tube guitar preamp
- You’ll have to be rich and quick if you want a Moog Synthesizer IIIp
- Fender Play is coming to Android and iPad
- Watch The Temperance Movement tear it up in exclusive live performance
- Review round-up: T-style electric guitars
- Jerry Douglas: “I stood more of a chance of getting hit by a car than seeing another Dobro player”
- IK Multimedia's iRig Keys I/O audio interface and MIDI controller is now available
- Soundtheory says that its Gullfoss intelligent EQ plugin gives you a set of ‘golden ears’ that can resolve problems in your mix
February 21
- This fold-up guitar doubles as a suitcase
- FREE VST/AU/AAX compressor with Computer Music 254: IK Multimedia Black 76
- Fender has unveiled a new humbucker-equipped Limited Edition Offset Telecaster and we want it
- ULTIMATE MIXDOWNS – Computer Music issue 254 is out now!
- EarthQuaker Devices issues a host of updates to 5 popular pedals
- New ROMpler promises Uphoria for hip-hop and trap producers
- Lars Ulrich: "I've never been very interested in ability"
- 10 questions for Screaming Females’ Marissa Paternoster: “After playing 1,000+ shows, I've come to terms that gear breaking is just par for the course”
- Charlie Cunningham: “I needed to commit to something - put the hours in”
February 20
- Muse’s Matt Bellamy: “The guitar has become a textural instrument rather than a lead instrument”
- TG304: Guitar style cards
- Krotos Audio’s Weaponiser plugin promises plenty of bang for your buck
- Sterling Ball: these are the guitarists that blew my mind
- Eric Johnson and Fender release first contoured Stratocaster Thinline
- Composer Sarah Schachner on bringing Ancient Egypt to life in her Assassin’s Creed Origins soundtrack
- Gibson responds to bankruptcy reports, claiming new strategy “will lead to the best financial results the company has seen in its history”
- Need a new audio interface? Audient can provide you with the complete recording, mixing and mastering package
February 19
- Bok Bok on hardware, bitcrushing and vintage chip burners
- Chuck Rainey: “I certainly feel like I’ve got company when I’ve got a bass on me”
- 6 single-cut guitars with a difference
- This is what Ikea and Teenage Engineering’s ‘party-starting’ music products will look like
February 16
- 10 questions for Amenra
- Dave Clarke discusses the making of his latest album and gets his geek on
- SampleRadar: 105 free sine and sub samples
- Dusky Electronics unveils Mandorla boost pedal
- Joan Osborne: “A song desires to be sung. It continues to live only if people sing it”
- G&L debuts CLF Research L-2000 bass guitar
- This could be the biggest free ROMpler available today
February 15
- Classic album: Fila Brazillia on Black Market Gardening
- Testament's Alex Skolnick: "One of the biggest influences on my playing is Michael Schenker"
- Gibson Modern Flying V guitar officially announced
- Gibson “running out of time - rapidly” to resolve debt issues, says financial expert
- Zakk Wylde: these are the 10 guitarists that blew my mind
February 14
- Me in my studio: Dr. Shiver
- Wylde Audio’s Blood Eagle takes flight
- 10 questions for Paul Draper: “Being in an indie band, I hid that I could play guitar solos”
- Could co-ownership of a Prince song be the perfect Valentine’s Day gift?
- Gibson revs up Custom Boogie Van Les Paul guitars
- UAD Software 9.5 includes Helios Type 69, A/DA Flanger and Friedman Buxom Betty amp plugins
- Me and my guitar: Neck Deep's Matt West
- 69 sexy songs to get you in the mood
February 13
- How to balance mono compatibility with stereo width
- Could Taurus’s Servo analogue guitar enhancer be the missing link in your rig?
- Ear Prog teaches you to recognise chord progressions and unlock your ‘musical superpowers’
- 5 minutes alone - Jonny Lang: "Technical proficiency has never come easy to me"
- Audiority Tube Modulator packs vintage modulation processors into a plugin
- Ash Soan talks revolutionising the drum session world from his back garden: “This place was basically built to get my crap out of the house"
- Judas Priest’s Glenn Tipton diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease
February 12
- AudioTexture lets you create an ‘infinite’ sound from a single sample
- Nosaj Thing on finding his sound and working in the box
- Wednesday 13's Troy Doebbler: “Be what you’re supposed to be. You’re the wall behind it all”
February 11
- Ampify iOS apps are all you need to make music on the go
February 9
- Rex The Dog takes us on a modular adventure
- Plugindoctor can diagnose what your VST/AU processors are doing to your audio
- Mr. Big drummer and founding member Pat Torpey dies aged 64
- Classic gear: Gibson Les Paul Custom
- Justin Townes Earle: “I do feel a responsibility to these old existing forms”
February 8
- Showtek’s favourite music software
- Issue 328 of Future Music is on sale now
- Bare Knuckle unveils more affordable Boot Camp guitar pickup line
- Never lose your pick again: Gator’s LED Edition cases feature built-in lights
- Prog drum king Gavin Harrison: "If everything's under control, then you’re just not going fast enough"
- Spector’s short-scale Bantam bass guitars now available
- The White Buffalo: “You’re just trying to hit people in the heart with songs”
- Are we fools to believe that Behringer’s Neutron analogue synth will ship in April for $300?
February 7
- Junkie XL on soundtracks, Elvis and how we've never had it so good
- Nintendo isn’t the only company making a cardboard musical keyboard
- London Bass Guitar Show 2018: Peter Hook returns to perform and answer your questions
- 10 questions for Black Moth’s Federica Gialanze: “I would love to teach - it would be great to inspire young women to start playing guitar”
- New guitar gear of the month: review round-up (February 2018)
- New tech gear of the month: review round-up (February 2018)
- Andy Gangadeen talks his early days, hybrid drumming and mega pop gigs
February 6
- D.D Dumbo: “Many of my songs have benefitted from the restriction of the loop pedal”
- Ableton Live 10 is now available worldwide
February 5
- Opiuo: 5 things I’ve learned about music production
- Nathan East: “You become the foundation for the ‘house’, the complete opposite of being flash”
- Blast from the past: Tascam (Teac) Portastudio
- Sinevibes’ Malfunction II plugin is so wrong that it’s right
- Dan Weller’s top 9 tips for recording guitar: "Producing your own band is traumatic"
February 2
- Native Instruments’ new plugin effect pack offers all Mod cons
- The best new DJ gear of NAMM 2018
- Old gold: 1959 Futurama III
- 6 fresh guitar artists you need to hear in February
- Steinberger reissues Spirit Collection of headless guitars and basses
- The best new studio gear of NAMM 2018
- NAMM 2018: Randall writes “the next chapter of metal history” with Ola Englund Satan 50 amp head
- The best new Eurorack modular gear of NAMM 2018
- NAMM 2018: Framus unveils William DuVall Talisman, Devin Townsend Stormbender and more affordable D Series electric guitars
- NAMM 2018: Reverend announces Billy Corgan Terz, Airsonic and Pete Anderson Signature PA-1 10th Anniversary Edition guitars
- NAMM 2018: Victory releases V30 The Countess MkII and VX100 The Super Kraken amp heads
- NAMM 2018: Geezer Butler's Head of Doom is coming for you
February 1
- John 5: these are the 10 guitarists who blew my mind
- Earplugs designed for music
- NAMM 2018: Suhr gets into the single-cut game with the Aura
- NAMM 2018: Suhr releases Riot Mini pedal
- NAMM 2018: Chase Bliss Audio reveals Thermae pedal, “a radically new approach to analogue delay and harmonisation”
- Watch John Petrucci annihilate the Super Mario Bros theme in warp-speed guitar playthrough
- Tools for the audio professional
- NAMM 2018: Darkglass debuts its most versatile bass preamp pedal yet, the Alpha-Omega Ultra
- NAMM 2018: Famed acoustic luthier Lowden introduces GL-10 electric guitar
- NAMM 2018: Martin unveils trio of affordable X Series acoustic guitars
- NAMM 2018: Mythos teams up with Rob Chapman for Titan overdrive pedal
- The best new synths, samplers and drum machines of NAMM 2018
- NAMM 2018: JHS Pedals’ Bonsai is 9 classic Tube Screamers in one
- NAMM 2018: Ernie Ball Music Man releases 2018 guitar and bass range
- iOS sequencer Auxy has hit version 5: more sounds, a new drum instrument and a subscription model