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March 29
- Superbooth 2019: Analogue Solutions sets pulses racing with new Impulse Command synth
- You can now add your own samples to Devious Machines Texture 1.5
- Solar Guitars goes low with A2.6FB Baritone
- Electro-Harmonix gives the Small Stone Nano a groovy new look
- Piano Day 2019: keys players make grand plans as they celebrate the 88th day of the year
- Aclam develops “a perfect replica” of The Beatles’ fave Vox UL730 amp for Dr Robert overdrive pedal
- How Takamine acoustics became the hardest-working guitars in music
- Classic gear: Vox AC15
March 28
- Ever wondered what the inside of a Roli Seaboard looks like? 9 YouTubers and a Stanley knife find out
- Synthplex 2019: Rossum Electro-Music lets all hell break loose with new Panharmonium Mutating Spectral Resynthesizer Eurorack module
- David Gilmour previews his gargantuan guitar auction in awe-inspiring teaser video
- Will Moog’s next synth be called the Matriarch? A recent trademark application might be a clue
- Alexi Laiho’s top 5 tips for guitarists: "The metronome is a relentless tool. It won’t give you a break if your fingers start to hurt"
- Fender releases Duff McKagan Signature Deluxe Precision Bass
- Solar Guitars unveils its first eight-string, the Evertune-equipped A1.8C
- Tone makers - Brian Wampler: “I like to be forthcoming and let people know if a pedal is based on the skeleton of something else”
March 27
- First look video: Serato Studio
- Serato Studio is the new DAW that’s designed to turn DJs into producers
- David Gilmour: “The Stratocaster enhances the personality of the person playing it”
- Eastman promises a “more resonant and responsive tone” with innovative Double Top acoustic guitars
- Watch Cellar Darling's Merlin Sutter deliver blistering Insomnia drum playthrough
- Here’s one Nintendo Labo piano you can take out and about with you
- Watch Cellar Darling’s Ivo Henzi reveal the guitar gear that shapes their crushing sound
- AKG’s new foldaway studio headphones let you mix and monitor on the go
- Analogue Solutions' latest teaser tells us a little bit more about its upcoming synthesizer
- Mudhoney's Dan Peters: “In my old age, the red light scares me”
- Fender Europe fined for hiding documents during Competition and Markets Authority inspection
- The FX files: Klon Centaur
- Genelec thinks that it's cracked headphone monitoring, and all you need is your smartphone
March 26
- Me in my studio: DoubtingThomas
- The Chemical Brothers’ 3-second, 15,000bpm Formula 1 remix is ‘the fastest of all time’
- Power your pedalboard via USB with Birdcord voltage converter cables
- Tracktion’s Waveform 10 DAW is here, and it's full of workflow improvements
- Roli Studio Player crams Equator, Cypher2, and Strobe2 in one plugin, for free
- Impeach The President: win Tracklib’s beat battle and you could sample the funk classic for free
- Mastro Valvola announces Area Multi Reverb MkII pedal
- Plankton Electronics' Nutube-powered distortion effects unit, Spice, is now on Kickstarter
- Joe Bonamassa: “I want to start ticking off a bucket list of accomplishments and statements I want to make before I hang it up”
- Z.Vex announces Vertical Instant Lo-Fi Junky pedal
- JBL’s One Series 104s are sleek-looking monitors designed for the modern producer
March 25
- MakeProAudio’s new platform is like Lego for building pro audio gear
- Native Instruments and Nils Frahm team up for new Kontakt piano plugin, Noire
- Me and my guitar: Devin Townsend
- Here is your chance to win an Audient Sono, “the ultimate audio interface for guitarists”
- Klevgrand launches FreeAMP, a free edition of its REAMP plugin
- Signed, sealed, delivered and it could be yours: Bob Moog Foundation to raffle-off Minimoog signed by Stevie Wonder
- Dave Davies’ iconic Flying V is going under the hammer
- FREE VST/AU modular synth with Computer Music: Fathom CM
- This Styrofoam Telecaster might just be the world’s lightest guitar
- David Gray: “To allow other people in is a form of strength. I’ll work in a way that most find unnerving”
- Snow Owl: “This is the magic of what Hans Zimmer does. He told us, ‘Don’t play the notes on the score - do more!’”
- G&L reveals versatile Deluxe Skyhawk HH electric guitar
- Scott Walker dies aged 76: stars pay tribute as Thom Yorke calls him "a huge influence"
March 22
- There’s enough room in the front seat of a Tesla Model S for a synth jam
- Here's what YouTube stars are saying about the Elektron Model:Samples
- Session bass ace Tim Lefebvre: "Even if it’s obtuse harmonically, if it’s funky, people will respond to it"
- Tiptop Audio adds Miso to your Eurorack modular utility belt
- PRS launches spec’d-up, signed SE Tremonti Standard limited run
- 6 PAF pickup recreations you need to try
- Seymour Duncan teams up with Mark Holcomb for Dark Sun digital delay and reverb
March 21
- Bach is back as AI Google Doodle
- Lenny Kravitz: “The bass is a soulful monster that keeps everyone moving”
- SYNTHS 2019 – Computer Music issue 268 is out now!
- Hundreds of fake Shure, Sennheiser, Yamaha and Harman products seized in factory raid
- Holy guacamole! It’s a Smashed Avocado Green Strat
- Steinberg Nuendo 10 lands and promises an even faster workflow
- Epiphone unveils Lzzy Hale Explorer
- Danelectro unveils new ‘vintage pedals’, The Eisenhower Fuzz and The Breakdown overdrive
- William Tyler: “When I’m playing guitar, I’m really in my own skin in a way that I don’t feel very often”
- IK Multimedia’s iRig Micro Amp is also a guitar audio interface
- Phil Demmel: “I think Slayer saved my musical career in some way”
- Jawbreaker's Adam Pfahler: “We don’t take credit or blame for what came after us”
March 20
- SSL SiX could be the compact console your studio has been waiting for
- This is what a shop full of synth drones recorded through a $6k microphone on a turntable sounds like
- Calvin Harris set to sell luxury LA recording studio home for more than $5 million
- Spitfire Audio reimagines its Evo Grid with three new orchestral plugins
- Spiral Electric FX unveils “the swiss-army knife of overdrive pedals” with the Yellow Spiral Drive
- Joyo launches compact multi-function wah/volume pedals
- New Moog vocoder synth teased for Moogfest 2019
- Tim Shaw reveals the secrets behind Fender's American Performer pickups
- Dave Keuning: “Learn more voicings if you want to express different emotions through your guitar”
- Back from the dead: Digidesign’s classic ProControl and Control|24 now work with Pro Tools again, and there’s Logic Pro X and Cubase support, too
March 19
- New Apple iMac promises to be twice as fast as the previous model
- Forget your metronome - this guitarist used a leaking tap instead
- TWA’s MiniMorph gives you an “unlimited variety of filthy, flittering filter effects”
- Eurorack just got a whole lot cheaper and smaller with the new EuroTile modular system from Syinsi
- Cort’s Gold Mini promises the best of a dreadnought at 3/4 the size
- Dave Mustaine: “I suck at a lot of things, like walking across a tightrope, but I definitely don’t suck at guitar!”
- Mark Morton's top 5 tips for guitarists: “It’s not about playing as fast as you can, but assessing what kind of pulse you want a riff to have”
- BIAS FX 2 looks like a tonehound’s playground, and a virtual vintage guitar shop, too
March 18
- Steinberg Studio Sessions: Force Mass Motion
- Faster iPad Air and iPad Mini 5 revealed with Lightning and headphone ports retained
- Bernie Tormé, guitarist for Gillan and Ozzy Osbourne, dies aged 66
- Remember your old band's MySpace page? All the music on it just got lost
- With Bitwig Studio 2.5, plugins will no longer crash your entire projects
- Forget 18 strings - here’s a 20-string electric guitar
- Vinicius Honorio's favourite music software
- Walrus Audio unveils Monument Harmonic Tap Tremolo V2
- Give your mix some grit by downloading the LoFi Vintage Clipper plugin for free
- Stereophonics’ Richard Jones: “I always had an affinity with the bass”
- 6 underrated sampling plugins that you need to try
- Hold on to your hats: Twisted Electrons has an incendiary new drum machine, Deton8
- Guitarists can live out their electric dreams with Keeley Electronics’ Synth-1 pedal
- Dick Dale and surf’s greatest guitar players on riding the tidal wave of twang
March 17
- Dick Dale, The King of Surf Guitar, has died aged 81
- Inside Thomann’s Synth Reactor 2019
March 15
- Reason 10.3 promises to fix “poor and erratic” VST plugin performance
- Tom Odell: “I couldn’t make the music I make today without having learned music theory”
- Here’s how Nine Inch Nails’ Alessandro Cortini uses a 4-track Portastudio as a performance instrument
- Duesenberg partners with Dropkick Murphys for Alliance Series guitar and bass
- This woodworm-infested guitar is the most disgusting thing you’ll see all week
- NI Massive X synth details revealed, but still no sounds
- Classic gear: Gretsch 6120 Chet Atkins Hollow Body/Nashville
- Barrie Cadogan: “I’m trying to show Danny Kirwan a bit of love, really, because he’s been grossly overlooked”
- Steel Panther reckon their Poontang Boomerang is "the world's greatest digital delay pedal"
March 14
- PSP Audioware gets back in the saddle with the HertzRider plugin
- David Gilmour: I mixed Hendrix at the Isle of Wight festival
- Joyo launches crazy-affordable, feature-rammed D-Seed II digital delay pedal
- This could be the best compact Boss Space Echo pedal you'll never be able to buy
- American Pi: AI software writes a new song based on the Don McLean classic to mark Pi Day
- Mandolin Orange: “The mandolin made me think of the guitar as more of a melodic instrument”
- Dave Mustaine plays a wah pedal live for the first time, having avoided it “for obvious reasons”
- Learn to Play Day 2019: get free music lessons across the UK
- Watch Joe Bonamassa play shred metal licks on a Steinberger
- Review round-up: spring reverb pedals
March 13
- JHS rebrands Ryan Adams’ signature VCR pedal - and you can get yours rehoused, too
- Thomann’s Synth Reaktor event is coming and here’s what you need to know
- Senri Kawaguchi could be your new favourite drummer: “I don’t want to compromise on sound”
- Tone makers - That Pedal Show's Dan Steinhardt: "The most common mistake with effects is believing there are mistakes"
- Matt Lange: 5 things I’ve learned about music production
- Rig tour: Marcus King
- This jaw-dropping guitar build has a ‘river’ running through the middle
- Blue Cat Audio’s Re-Guitar plugin can make your guitar sound like any other electric or acoustic
- Framus debuts Diablo II Supreme X and Pro electric guitars
- Review round-up: SG-style electrics under $/£1,000
- Nanoloop is a Game Boy-style handheld synth that might be even more fun than the real thing
March 12
- Parallels from Softube could well be your dream synth plugin
- Donna Grantis: "It’s all about rhythmic precision and the attack on your notes - that's one of the things Prince instilled in me"
- Jack White set up a ‘pirate radio station’ just to mix from his car
- This giant, fully playable acoustic guitar weighs a whopping 57kg
- Ola Englund’s Solar Guitars unveils two new Floyd Rose-equipped electrics
- Lenny Kravitz: “Are You Gonna Go My Way happened in five minutes”
- Audio Damage’s Enso will let you live your best looping life
- The Wrecking Crew's Hal Blaine: my 11 greatest recordings of all time
- Legendary Wrecking Crew drummer Hal Blaine dies, aged 90
March 11
- Yngwie Malmsteen: “There was no moment where I thought I should hold back or play slower”
- Joué’s re-Connect MIDI cable means that you can use it to control your hardware synths without a computer
- Novation Circuit gets updated with four new features in v1.8
- Balaguer Guitars announces affordable Standard Series
- Crazy Tube Circuits steps into the Limelight with new vintage-voiced fuzz pedal
- Fender ushers you into its Alternate Reality with the Powercaster
- Behemoth's Tomasz ‘Orion’ Wróblewski: “I’m not looking at my fingers; I don’t want to see them. I just want to listen to what I’m playing”
- John Butler: “First: write a good song. Second: work your ass off. Third: get people’s attention”
March 8
- Classic album: Mykaell Riley on Steel Pulse’s Handsworth Revolution
- Classic gear: Epiphone Zenith
- Brandy Row: “I walked into a shop and said, ‘I just want to be Joe Strummer.’ They pulled out a Tele and that was it”
- Blast from the past: Korg Mini Pops 3
March 7
- Me and my guitar: Plini
- Kemper updates the Profiler with 5 new "studio-grade" reverbs
- Best Strat-style guitars under $/£2,000 2023: top-quality S-style electrics you need to play
- Meat Puppets' Curt Kirkwood: “Lead is just like playing air guitar on the real guitar for me”
- Channel your inner J Dilla with the Koala Sampler for iPhone and iPad
- Matt Harris: "The Mike Shinoda gig involves big stages and singing someone else’s iconic parts… It's quite nerve-wracking!"
- Fredric Effects unveils “unusual” trio of new guitar effects pedals
- Ernie Ball unveils new its first new gauge strings in over a decade with Ultra and Burly Slinkys
- Audio interface users rejoice: it looks like USB 4.0 will be fully compatible with Thunderbolt 3
- Gibson hires Norman’s Rare Guitars expert Mark Agnesi
- Issue 342 of Future Music is on sale now
March 6
- T-Rex Engineering is far from extinct as it announces reboot following bankruptcy filing
- Erica Synths Sample Drum and Plasma Drive modules are now ready to buy
- New guitar gear of the month: review round-up (March 2019)
- A brief history of sonic enhancers (plus, 5 of the tastiest sweetening plugins)
- The SynTesla synth is a Steampunk’d Waldorf Streichfett powered by Tesla tubes
- Solar Guitars unveils 4 new electric guitars in Carbon Black and Lemon Neon
- The best high-end Strat-style guitars 2023: top-end takes on the classic electric outline
- Rig tour: Emma Ruth Rundle
- Here’s one way to remember those keyboard shortcuts: tattoo them on your arm
- Tesla's Dave Rude: "Whenever I write a solo, I want it to be memorable and melodic, even if it’s at insane speeds"
- Weezer has made a none-more-Black Album Fender Stratocaster
- Watch Dave Mustaine, Joe Satriani, Eric Johnson, Zakk Wylde, Dweezil Zappa and more tear up Jimi Hendrix classics
March 5
- Enrico Sangiuliano: “Don’t start from presets, it can influence your music in a bad way”
- A brief history of magnetic tape recording (plus six top tape emulation plugins)
- School Of Rock’s child guitar star caught repeatedly stealing guitars
- Tim Exile’s collaborative music app, Endlesss, is nearly ready and you can help
- Gary Holt finds “the tone I’ve been searching for for 20 years” with KHDK’s Paranormal parametric EQ
- Maker of the Kordbot has been revealed to be behind the new SP-2400 sampler
- Could the Otto synth be a more affordable alternative to the OP-1?
- Epiphone releases Jared James Nichols ‘Old Glory’ Les Paul Custom
- 10 questions for Cog’s Flynn Gower: “Strive to express your uniqueness. Never try to be a good version of someone else”
- Meet Relish’s Mary One, a guitar with a two-second pickup-swapping system
- T-Rex Engineering files for bankruptcy
- Anasounds’ Element is a spring reverb pedal that uses actual spring tanks
March 4
- Liam Howlett: “If we’d have tried to write another Charly, it would have been the downfall of us”
- New music tech gear of the month: review round-up (March 2019)
- Keith Flint was electronic music’s first and last rock ’n’ roll frontman
- Watch Simon Phillips deliver a phenomenal prog-rock drum performance in this exclusive DarWin playthrough
- The Prodigy frontman Keith Flint dies aged 49: the dance music world pays tribute
- Rudy Sarzo: “Randy Rhoads put his reputation with Sharon and Ozzy on the line to bring me in - I had no track record”
- 6 fresh guitar artists you need to hear in March 2019
- Iconic TB-303 synth is now available on Roland Cloud
- Focusrite’s Clarett USB audio interfaces can give your studio the sound quality upgrade it needs
- Behind the drums - Steve White: “What a wonderful community the drumming community is”
- Dave Mustaine: “I actually called Dimebag Darrell up and asked him to play in Megadeth”
- Vulfpeck’s Joe Dart unveils signature Ernie Ball Music Man bass
March 1
- A brief history of filters (plus 3 of the finest filter plugins)
- Survivor’s Stephan Ellis, bassist on Eye Of The Tiger, has died
- The Vector hybrid synth enters into early production and more specs are revealed
- Warwick announces RockBass Idolmaker four-string and five-string basses
- Precision-engineer your tone with Joyo’s Band Controller pedal
- Full specs and prices for the Abasi Concepts Larada are finally available
- Korg Gadget 2 has landed on iOS, Mac and PC, but it's not quite that simple
- Oz Noy: “The main problem with teaching guitar today is YouTube. People try to take shortcuts”
- Andrew Huang proves that you can make a Komplete track using just Native Instruments’ free software (and some nice studio gear)