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December 31
- Slash: “The Strat is, hands down, probably one of the best, most versatile guitars there is”
- Kissy Sell Out: 5 ways to become a better DJ
- The 13 best new iOS apps and hardware of 2018
December 30
- Yep, this bass is also a giant iPhone
- Marc 'MK' Kinchen: 5 things I’ve learned about music production
- Opeth's Mikael Åkerfeldt: 10 live albums that blew my mind
December 29
- John Carpenter: "My son was kind enough to figure out the MIDI for each of those songs, so I’ve not had to suffer through listening back to too much of my old stuff.”
- The best post-Christmas iPad deals for music makers: which iPad should you buy?
- Phil X’s top 5 tips for guitarists: “Your favourite guitarist already exists. You need to be yourself”
- Quincy Jones says that today’s producers are “lazy and greedy” and “don’t know what they’re doing”
- John Mayer: “When I’m playing on people’s sessions, I don’t bring an amp; I record all my guitars through my Akai MPC”
- The 14 best new effects plugins of 2018
December 28
- John Petrucci: "G3 made me rise to the occasion and gain more confidence as a soloist"
- Dirty South: 5 things I’ve learned about music production
December 27
- Zakk Wylde's 10 tips for guitarists
December 26
- A Perfect Circle's Billy Howerdel: the 10 guitar albums that blew my mind
- Sigala: 5 things I’ve learned about music production
- This is what home recording was like in 1980
December 25
- The 12 best music tech personalities in the world right now
- Benny Benassi: 10 tracks that blew my mind
- Myles Kennedy’s top 5 tips for guitarists: “If I can do it, you can do it”
December 24
- John Mayer: I made the Silver Sky with PRS because Fender couldn’t “bring the vision that I had to life”
- The 15 best rock guitarists in the world right now
- Joe Satriani's career in gear: "Don’t worry about Peavey vs Marshall; worry about what sets you free"
December 21
- Joyo reveals feature-rich, affordable Cab Box IR loader
- NAMM 2019: Pittsburgh Modular teases one “angry” sounding synth
- Find “inspiration in harmony” with Loopmasters’ Khords
- Me and my guitar: Nick Johnston
December 20
- Nektar is offering lightning-fast sound design with its first ever soft synth, Bolt
- Mike Dawes on synth-pop project Nik Mystery: “It's as far removed from Periphery and solo acoustic music as anything could possibly be!”
December 19
- Master the art of string bending with renowned guitarist Kris Barras
- Importing your own samples on the Sequential Prophet X hybrid synth is now possible
- Watch Sigala show off an alternative version of his hit "Came Here For Love"
- Rush titan Neil Peart hangs up his sticks for good
- Collision Devices launches mind-bending Black Hole Symmetry delay/reverb/fuzz pedal
- Lowden unveils Winter Limited Edition 2018 Tiger Myrtle acoustic guitar
- Rig tour: Soulfly
- Review round-up: mid-priced Strat-style guitars
December 18
- Bring Me The Horizon's Mat Nicholls: “We’re not scared of being a mainstream band”
- Propellerhead says that the Complex-1 modular is “one of the most ambitious synths we’ve ever made”
- Draw sound with your finger using the EG WaveSHAPER iOS synth
- Christmas/holiday gift ideas for guitarists
- NAMM 2019: Dynaudio is offering unsigned musicians the chance to be the stars of the show
- Joyo wants to turn guitarists into one-man bands with the OMB
- Suhr reckons its Reactive Load IR is “the ultimate all-in-one solution for speaker cabinet replacement”
- Christmas/holiday gift ideas for hi-tech musicians
- Christmas/holiday gift ideas for drummers
December 17
- Allihoopa to close in January, with Figure and Take apps under threat
- Debashish Bhattacharya: "Stay close to the music itself, however you can"
- NAMM 2019: ESP debuts a wealth of new guitars and basses
- Korg tunes-up its Prologue synth with a firmware update
December 14
- 2018’s best studio session drummer, Ash Soan, records with the Audient ASP800
- Victory releases The Super Kraken
- Native Instruments is celebrating the holidays with free drum and bass plugins
- Barefaced Audio debuts ultra-lightweight GX guitar cabs with innovative new enclosure design
- Rammstein's Richard Z. Kruspe: "I can be such a geek when it comes to guitar sounds"
- NanoStudio 2 could be the end-to-end iOS music production app you’ve been waiting for
- 5 minutes alone - McFly's Danny Jones: “I had a lesson off one of my idols: John Mayer”
- Amped Studio 2 can now convert your ideas to MIDI just like HumBeatz
December 13
- “Now everyone is a DJ”: Algoriddim’s djay for iOS goes free, just in time for the party season
- Issue 339 of Future Music is on sale now
- Blurred Lines case settled. The damage? $5m
- City And Colour: "To find myself in these rooms where people are being as quiet as they can be so they can listen, it’s a really beautiful experience"
December 12
- Klevgrand’s free DAW Games plugin lets you play Tetris when you should be making music
- Now’s not the time to buy an OP-1, says Teenage Engineering
- PreSonus’s Quantum 4848 audio interface is ready for your rack
- The CEntrance MixerFace R4 can now record direct to SD card
- The Cabli could help you wrap up your guitar cables quicker than ever
- Erik Martensson: "I just go for it and I always try to make the best possible album"
- Arturia’s new Pigments plugin synth promises to innovate rather than emulate
December 11
- Bitwig Studio 2.5 offers new arranging options and workflow enhancements
- Steve Gadd: the drummer's drummer
- Send one MIDI Input to four MIDI Outputs with MeeBlip’s cubit splitter box
- Sign up to Roland Cloud for a year and you can keep two plugin instruments even if you don’t renew
- Black Peaks' Joe Gosney: “It’s always been about rhythmic playing, as opposed to being really dextrous”
- The best new DJ gear of 2018
- The 15 best electronica, ambient and underground DJs/producers in the world right now
- The 15 best techno producers/DJs in the world right now
- The best new studio gear of 2018
- The 15 best hip-hop, R&B and grime producers/DJs in the world right now
- The 15 best live electronic acts in the world right now
- The 15 best electro house, tech-house and trance producers/DJs in the world right now
- The 15 best bass music and DnB producers/DJs in the world right now
- The 14 best new virtual instrument plugins of 2018
- The 15 best house producers/DJs in the world right now
- The 15 best record producers in the world right now
December 10
- Review round-up: chorus pedals
- Crazy Tube Circuits takes flight with tweed-inspired Falcon overdrive
- Synapse Audio’s Dune plugin synth goes ‘full HD’ as it hits version 3
- Fender’s final Parallel Universe model has arrived: meet the ’51 Telecaster PJ Bass
- Mesa/Boogie debuts Walkabout-inspired Subway WD-800 bass amp
- Pedaltrain lifts the lid on the SST Space Saving Tuner
- Kirk Fletcher: "Seeing Robben Ford was the thing to make me go, 'Okay, I wanna play for real…'"
- 7 tips for staying creative
December 7
- SampleRadar: 260 free tribal adventures samples
- Blinded by your pedalboard’s LEDs? RockBoard has the solution: LED Dampers
- Mad Professor unleashes feature-rammed Loud'n Proud overdrive/fuzz pedal
- Death By Audio releases sequel to “the most insane pedal of all time”, the Total Sonic Annihilation 2
- Pete Shelley, Buzzcocks guitarist, lead singer and founder dies aged 63
- Steve Vai engineer Greg Wurth's top tips for recording: "It’s about the purity of the sound, before the microphone even gets set up"
- Fender releases Albert Hammond Jr Stratocaster with custom pickup switching
- It looks like Arturia is announcing a new synth next week, but what is it?
December 6
- Peavey's new MAX bass amps revealed
- Fender launches Flea Signature Active Jazz Bass with bonkers promo video
- u-he’s Twangström models spring reverbs from “the guitar and instrument amps that made rock ‘n’ roll”
- IK Multimedia adds 10 new officially licensed guitar amp and pedal models to AmpliTube iOS
- PRS unveils jaw-dropping McCarty 594 ‘Graveyard II’ Limited Edition guitar
- Everything you need to know about DeArmond Gold Foil pickups
- Propellerhead’s Quad Note Generator could help you to come up with musical ideas in Reason
- Rougarou Pedals unleashes The Umibōzu fuzz/distortion pedal
December 5
- Rig tour: MONO’s Takaakira ‘Taka’ Goto
- Sugar Bytes brings its Aparillo soundscape synth to the iPad
- Kiesel debuts new Lee McKinney headless models
- Klevgrand’s REAMP makes your music sound like it was recorded through vintage analogue audio gear
- Novation Peak 1.2 firmware update is coming in time for Christmas
- Gibson to re-enter the NAMM fray in 2019, following 2018's no-show
- Rig tour: Megadeth’s David Ellefson
December 4
- Gibson walking from Memphis as hollowbody production moves to Nashville
- Go behind the scenes with Rob Chapman’s new project Clockwork Wolf & Co
- Tascam’s TH-07 headphones are designed to sound as good as your nearfield studio monitors
- The FX files: Dunlop Cry Baby
- Epiphone announces well-appointed Joe Bonamassa ES-355
- DJ Martin Solveig at the centre of twerking controversy at Ballon d’Or ceremony
- Hands-on demo: Fender American Performer Series
- Pedaltrain just teased an impossibly tiny tuner that could change pedalboards forever
December 3
- Fender launches American Performer Series with 9 new guitars and basses
- Spitfire Audio LABS Pads is full of softly spoken vintage synths, all for free
- RØDE’s new RØDECaster Pro is “the world’s first fully integrated podcast production studio”
- New guitar gear of the month: review round-up (December 2018)
- 6 fresh guitar artists you need to hear in December
- New music tech gear of the month: review round-up (December 2018)
- Electro-Harmonix unveils Sovtek Deluxe Big Muff Pi, Flatiron Fuzz and Nano Battalion pedals
- Novation’s SL MkIII stands alone with its software and hardware control
- The 6 best guitar videos of 2018
- The 14 best metal guitarists in the world right now
- The 14 best new guitar effects pedals of 2018
- The 12 best online guitar personalities in the world right now
- The 12 best acoustic guitarists in the world right now
- The 16 best guitar albums of 2018
- The 12 best new electric guitars of 2018
- The 12 best alternative guitarists in the world right now
- The 6 best guitar innovations of 2018
- The 14 best new guitarists in the world today
- The 13 best blues guitarists in the world right now