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July 2018
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- July 31
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- Patterning 2 promises to run rings around other iPad drum machines
- Puncher is a multi-FX plugin that promises to add “intense power” to your tracks
- Tone makers - Chase Bliss Audio's Joel Korte: "There’s something about the way a pedal makes you feel that can never be emulated or replicated"
- Randy Bachman's top 5 tips for guitarists: “The guitar is the most personal instrument of them all; it’s right against your heart and soul”
- Dapayk Solo's favourite music software
- July 30
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- Me in my studio: Arp
- Fulltone’s iconic OCD is back in black
- Strandberg releases its headless T-type, the Sälen
- Review round-up: Klone pedals
- Stone Temple Pilots' Robert DeLeo: “I love the personality that amps and basses give each part of the song. It’s like painting”
- Win a custom-engraved Mini Rigs Portable Bluetooth Speaker
- July 27
- July 26
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- Audified's MixChecker Pro lets you find out how your audience will hear your music
- Hungry Robot Modular looks like it could be another gateway into the world of Eurorack for pedal-lovers
- Issue 334 of Future Music is on sale now
- Braids’ Raphaelle Standell-Preston: why I called out TC Electronic and Steel Panther
- Give your beats some bounce with the Oddball drum controller
- This new Roland Cloud instrument has serious SRX appeal
- 6 iconic '80s shred guitars you can still buy today
- Australian guitarist plays for an incredible 125 hours in charity fundraiser
- Pigtronix launches Bob Weir's Real Deal - an acoustic volume boost without the feedback
- The Performaxe leg rest promises to improve your posture and provide more comfortable practice positions
- July 25
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- 7 tips for troubleshooting why your electric guitar won’t stay in tune
- Enjoy real-time noise reduction with McDSP’s NR800 plugin
- The new Z4000 NS from Tiptop Audio is not your average envelope generator
- Waves’ Abbey Road Chambers plugin has echoes of the past
- TC Electronic revives controversial Satchel TonePrint under new name
- Fulltone shakes up the tremolo market with Supa-Trem Jr pedal
- Megan Davies: “There are constantly people who are better technically than you… learn to start collaborating with them”
- G-Suit protects your guitar's neck and strings when you’re not playing
- July 24
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- First look demo: IK Multimedia UNO Synth
- Ted Hutt’s 7 tips for producers: “My favourite records weren’t always huge hits. But they were huge to me”
- Steinberg’s VST Transit now enables cloud collaboration in any DAW and on the iPad
- Lunastone’s Three Stage Rocket MIDI ready for launch
- Novation’s new Circuit Synth Editor helps you to get further under the hood
- Johnny Marr: “I had an approach to the guitar that I knew was going to take some thinking about. A lot of it was about discarding the stuff I didn’t need”
- Joe Bonamassa: “I know the people that are taking over Gibson, and they're good guys”
- Fortamento lets you create 4-bar musical loops on your iPhone and export them to your DAW
- Z.Vex debuts Germanium Woolly Mammoth Mod pedal
- July 23
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- PRS revives the SE Bernie Marsden for one more limited-edition run
- Roland and Puma announce more 808 sneakers and prepare to release them on #808Day
- Claude VonStroke: "I actually think I started out in the right way, which is don’t care about what other producers are doing, at all."
- TC Electronic has just launched a looper that keeps in time with your band
- Spandau Ballet’s Gary Kemp: "We want to get back to where we were. We want to get back to playing arenas"
- Abletunes’ FX Mate could be your new best bud if you want a simple multi-effect plugin
- WIN! A Solar A2.6 in Trans Blood Red Matte
- Gibson unveils 2018 Les Paul Junior Billie Joe Armstrong Signature model
- Give your Ableton Live workflow a boost with a Novation Launchkey controller
- July 20
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- 6 great-value mastering plugins you might not have heard of
- Novelist on creating the beats for Stop Killing the Mandem
- Electric guitar review round-up: affordable speed machines
- In the studio with Graham Coxon
- Boz Digital Labs makes a ProVocative move as it releases a micro pitchshifting plugin
- Night Verses' Nick DePirro: "With vocals, I often found myself competing with the registers; now I can go from lead to rhythm and anything in between"
- Pickup lines: the tonal secrets behind 1954 Strat pickups
- Justin Sandercoe leads UK Guitar Show tuition clinic announcements
- July 19
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- Arturia’s new mini DrumBrute is ready to make an Impact
- First look video: Arturia DrumBrute Impact
- Review round-up: Russian fuzz pedals
- IK Multimedia releases Uno, its $200 analogue monosynth
- Foo Fighters fans! Chris Shiflett is selling 20 guitars on Reverb this week
- PreSonus’s new FaderPort packs a lot of functionality into a little DAW controller
- July 18
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- July 16
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- Mode Machines has unleashed its analogue and MIDI sequencer
- Classic album: Riva Starr on If Life Gives You Lemons, Make Lemonade
- FabFilter’s fantastic Pro-Q 2 EQ plugin can now be used in iPad DAWs
- One string and the truth - Elmore James: king of slide
- Cyrus Bolooki looks back on 20 years of New Found Glory
- July 14
- July 13
- July 12
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- SYNTH SECRETS – Computer Music issue 259 is out now!
- Oliver Schories' favourite music software
- Ernie Ball Music Man thinks that its new StingRay basses are a bit Special
- Korg and Propellerhead collaborate on Stockholm, a new version of Reason’s Dr. Octo Rex for Gadget
- The Boss Katana-Air is now available to buy
- How to deal with spill when recording vocals and piano
- Tone makers - Tim Webster: "Fredric Effects has a slightly oddball ethos and a willingness to take on some of the weirder stuff"
- One for the road - Stevie Salas: "Don’t be afraid of distortion; the cleanness comes from how you pick it out"
- July 11
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- Warwick unveils Idolmaker Bass
- iZotope’s new Nectar Elements takes the pain out of mixing your vocals
- Little Boots gets hands-on with MAUD, a massive modular controller
- 11 questions for Derek Smalls: "The last time I changed my strings? The same time as I changed the oil in my motor. Which is never"
- Magix Music Maker now has a ‘pro DAW’ audio engine
- July 10
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- TC Electronic and Steel Panther’s Satchel face backlash over “obviously sexist” TonePrint
- Futurebeat is back and Yamaha is looking for the drum stars of the future
- Blast from the past: Oberheim DSX
- Fender stirs the pot with Les Paul-esque Troublemaker Tele
- The playlist: Laurence Jones
- Andrea Goldsworthy: “Never assume it’s fine. It’s not like, ‘I only do arenas now, I don’t need to prepare’ - I do. Everybody does”
- July 9
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- July 5
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- Erica Synths launches six new modules for the Techno System
- Elektron ramps up the temperature with new edition of Analog Heat
- In-demand producer Tom Dalgety: “The pedal, amp and guitar are important, but so is the EQ, the preamp and the mic!"
- Something SKULPTed from Modal Electronics this way comes
- 5 minutes alone - Ihsahn: “Thinking smart can often brush off the edges of what might make you unique”
- Watch a comparison of the Medusa synth’s digital and analogue voices
- Fulltone announces versatile, downsized Full-Drive 2 V2 pedal
- Warwick unveils long-scale, BEAD-tuned RockBass Corvette Taranis bass guitar
- Matt Darey's favourite music software
- July 4
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- This rare Roland TB-303 sounds like no other
- PRS unveils limited-edition Whale Blue satin quilt finish for SE Mark Holcomb guitar
- WhoSampled’s app tells you more about the music you’re listening to
- Zynaptiq solves World Cup horn problem with free Suppressor plugin
- Shergold gives the Masquerader a limited-edition Black Sparkle makeover
- Ariel Posen: “People started to take notice once we finally started just playing like ourselves”
- 6 fresh guitar artists you need to hear in July
- Adrian Utley: “Playing guitar can be so many things. It’s been my salvation, my way of making a living”
- July 3
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- Brad Davis: "The rhythmic underbelly, that fabric, is the key to better lead playing"
- AVP Synthesizers announces new control-laden analogue drum synth, the ADS-7
- Watch a crash course in distortion courtesy of Not Waving, Boiler Room and Genelec
- Simon McBride confirmed to appear at UK Guitar Show
- Suhr announces Shiba Drive Reloaded Mini overdrive pedal
- Stu Hamm: “Tuning is a myth; it’s like money in that it’s a shared hallucination”
- New tech gear of the month: review round-up (July 2018)
- July 2
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- Devin Townsend: “I toured for 11 months last year, and the band... I don't know if we broke even”
- Ditch your hex key: Tone Vise Keyless Locks are here to simplify your guitar's locking nut
- New guitar gear of the month: review round-up (July 2018)
- Henry Juszkiewicz: Gibson quality control accusations are "fake news"
- AudioKit’s free and open-source Synth One looks better than many paid-for iPad instruments
- Moog says that Trump tariffs will endanger US jobs and may force it to move synth manufacturing overseas
- Summer NAMM 2018: MXR’s EVH 5150 Chorus headlines Dunlop’s pedal line-up