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June 28
- Guitarists debate: did Gibson steal the Les Paul design?
- Tyler Bryant: my heroes and desert island guitars
- Summer NAMM 2019: Grez Guitars unveils its first solidbody, The Folsom
- Acustica Audio’s Cola is an AI-powered mixing suite that’s designed to behave like an audio engineer
- PresetMagician can create NKS presets from non-NKS VST plugins, and that’s great news for NI Komplete Kontrol and Maschine owners
- 10 of the best electronic music acts to watch at Glastonbury 2019
- The Cranberries’ Noel Hogan: “Doing the album when we did, it was almost like therapy for us”
- One Control introduces its first-ever guitar amp, the compact BJF-S66
- You can now buy your own Cloud guitar from the Official Prince Store
- 13 of the best guitar acts to watch at Glastonbury 2019
June 27
- Massive X released: Native Instruments aims for another decade of soft synth dominance
- Joyo Audio turns FireBrand with latest Bantamp lunchbox guitar amp
- FabFilter releases all its Pro plugins for iPad in the AUv3 format
- Issue 346 of Future Music is on sale now
- Vltimas’s David Vincent: “I’ve always viewed bass as a tool for bridging the gap between the drums and the guitar”
June 26
- It’s your last chance to get discounted early-bird tickets for the UK Guitar Show and London Bass Guitar Show
- Arturia’s KeyLab 88 MkII could be the ultimate MIDI controller keyboard for producers who play
- Sting's My Songs track-by-track with Martin Kierszenbaum: "The songs are dynamic. They are living and breathing"
- PRS’s ultra-versatile Private Stock Modern Eagle V takes flight
- Review round-up: analog delay pedals
- Ableton’s free Learning Synths website could be the easiest way to learn the basics of sound design
June 25
- Steve Vai: "I’m 59; keeping up those chops isn’t as interesting to me. It’s all about the bizarre and quirky ways to phrase"
- Nick Beggs and Ariane Cap join the UK Guitar Show & London Bass Guitar Show line-up
- Shergold invites you to do the Tango Fandango with limited-edition Masquerader
- Fender unveils 21-strong Vintera guitar and bass range
- The KickStrap promises to stop bass drum creep
- Gibson wants players to report counterfeit guitars
- Mark Lettieri: “Learn the differences in how a rock guitarist plays a chord and how a country musician plays a chord... because they exist!”
- Hans Zimmer is working with BMW to design the sounds for its new electric cars
- Not your regular distortion plugin, Instinct is a “living organism of drive, dynamics and tone”
- John Mayer just gigged with Jerry Garcia’s iconic Wolf guitar
- Sonible’s smart:comp plugin chooses your compression settings so you don’t have to
June 24
- Robin Trower's top 5 tips for guitarists: "Repeating what other guitarists have done is not your emotion... it’s someone else’s!"
- How Stardust made Music Sounds Better With You… and why it was their only release
- Devin Townsend announced for the UK Guitar Show & London Bass Guitar Show 2019
- Revv lifts the lid on its most versatile pedal yet, the G2 overdrive
- Maxon lets Keeley have his way with the OD808 for new 40th Anniversary overdrive pedal
- Jonny Goood: “There’s really no wrong way to rock out with Lady Gaga”
- Boz Digital’s free Bark Of Dog 2 plugin lets you ‘boost your low end without blowing your speakers’
- Gibson teams up with Joan Jett for signature ES-339 guitar
June 21
- Prince Fox: 5 things I’ve learned about music production
- Watch Navene Koperweis play through Schiermann - Northern Lights
- Could Yamaha’s STAGEPAS 1K be the perfect portable PA system?
- Elton John guitarist John Jorgenson confirmed as Acoustic Guitarist of the Year judge
- Korg swings into action with its metronome-powered PuttRhythm golf trainer
- “Gibson’s claims baseless,” says Dean Guitars, as it reacts to legal threat
- Sold for $3.9m: David Gilmour’s Black Strat just became the most expensive guitar in history
June 20
- Gerry Morgan: “Get stuck in and you’ll be fine. It’s never too late to learn another instrument”
- Gibson sues Dean Guitars, according to reports
- Supro unveils its most versatile amp yet, the Galaxy
- Audified’s ToneSpot Drum Pro plugin is designed to fast-track you to the drum tone you’ve been looking for
- Cort takes aim at the boutique guitar market with the G290 FAT
- Classic album: Philippe Zdar on Cassius's 1999
- Get your first look at the hologram Buddy Holly, who’s set to tour with the digital Roy Orbison
- Zakk Wylde is now selling his own guitar strings and picks
- VCV Rack reaches version 1.0.0: free and open-source modular synth gets a full release
- Guitto’s Revolver Capo boasts a bridge pin puller and pick holder
- Max Moran: “I dug the sound and the role of the bass. It matched my personality”
- Chase Bliss Audio is in a playful M O O D with new granular micro-looper/delay pedal
- Ernie Ball Music Man launches trio of new electric guitar finishes
- Philippe Zdar of Cassius killed in fall from Paris building
- Yamaha debuts eye-catching Storia acoustic guitars
June 19
- How to grow your audience: top tips for music-making YouTubers
- Cave In's Stephen Brodsky: "Kurt Ballou said we ruined the Boss PS-3 for everybody!"
- Matt Bellamy on Manson’s future: “We’ll be exploring enhanced electronic features to further evolve the guitar”
- KHDK’s David Karon launches Tone For Change charity pedal initiative with Skateistan fuzz
- Gibson’s Dave Amato signature model combines a ‘59 Les Paul with Axcess specs
- Output’s Portal FX plugin takes you down the granular synthesis rabbit hole without making your head hurt
- Modley is Klevgrand’s ‘creative delay playground’ plugin
- Is Slate Digital’s All Access Pass the most compelling music software subscription deal yet?
- Review round-up: ES-335-style electric guitars
- Sunn O))) unleashes signature EarthQuaker Devices Life Pedal
- Waves’ Bass Fingers plugin turns your MIDI keyboard playing into authentic bass guitar parts
June 18
- Fralin celebrates 30th anniversary with Limited Edition Vintage Hot Stratocaster pickups
- Dave Navarro reunites with long-lost custom Ibanez - after it was traded in at Guitar Center
- ROLI’s LUMI is a light-up MIDI controller keyboard that will help you to ‘learn and play music’
- Move over MIDI unicorn, there’s a new cat in town and he sounds better
- Rig tour: Death Cab For Cutie
- Hughes & Kettner’s Black Spirit 200 Combo promises to be the “largest-sounding 1x12 combo ever produced”
June 17
- Megadeth's Dave Mustaine reveals throat cancer diagnosis
- Bridge the gap between your stompboxes and Eurorack modules with INTRFX from Boredbrain
- Audiothingies Doctor A effects could be the perfect partner to any synth setup
- The EMU-style SP 2400 drum sampler is coming on nicely, and can be pre-ordered right now
- IK Multimedia’s new product promises a fresh take on “the oldest instruments in human history”
- Mr Black condenses ’80s rack delays into the Mini Echo-Delay pedal
- Can’t make David Gilmour’s mammoth guitar auction? Take a jaw-dropping virtual tour instead
- Me and my guitar: Talons' Oliver Steels
- Duff McKagan: “Whenever I play live, I play in anger and I dive in”
June 16
- Gibson issues threat to rival guitar builders: “You have been warned; we’re here to protect our iconic legacy”
June 14
- SampleRadar: 268 free dusty funk samples
- Walker & Royce: 5 things we’ve learned about music production
- Tone makers - Origin Effects’ Simon Keats: "I visited David Gilmour’s lock-up and compared a load of original Uni-Vibes"
- Cecilia Della Peruti: “Stand behind what you want to do musically and try not to be too impressionable”
- FruityLoops was never meant to be for musicians, says creator
- Fulltone unveils “the ultimate OCD” with new CS-OCD-Ge overdrive pedal
- Fender continues unearthing Rarities with Flame Ash Top Stratocaster
- IK Multimedia UNO Drum released: here's what you need to know about this $250 drum machine
- Apple’s Logic Pro X 10.4.5 lets you run more tracks than you’ll ever need and harnesses the power of the new Mac Pro
June 13
- The Arp 2600 synth remake from Behringer is officially happening
- Third annual Oram Awards to include free daytime workshops
- Baroness's John Baizley: "Reversing that standard pedal signal flow is where the most interesting stuff happens"
- Halestorm's Arejay Hale: "I never get to nerd out over drums"
- Blast from the past: E-MU System Proteus
- Netsky: “I wanted to make catchy pop songs, but I also wanted to move away from straight-up 4/4”
- John Mayer’s 2019 pedalboard has been revealed
- Venn Audio releases V-Clip, a soft clipper plugin with saturation
- Peavey's MAX 300 bass amplifier gets official release
- IK Multimedia brings 4 iconic tape machines to your DAW as T-RackS plugins
- The Boss WL-60 wireless system lets you cut the cable and roam the stage
- Boss looks to the future with 4 premium 200 series effect pedals
June 12
- Mark Richardson: “Always insist on being in the conversation. That’s a tip for any drummer”
- Enter Shikari's Rou Reynolds: “We are a creative species, full stop. That’s one of the defining features of humanity”
- Softube’s Monoment Bass plugin promises modern, mix-ready electronic bass sounds for today’s producers
- The Specials’ Horace Panter: “People used to go ‘You and Brad are a great rhythm section’. But everybody’s the rhythm section”
- nABC is a portable analogue compressor for creative real-time sidechaining
- Gibson reveals second Lee Roy Parnell Custom Shop Les Paul
June 11
- Radiohead release "not very interesting" hacked OK Computer recordings
- The Noatronic Onboard Expression gives you MIDI, expression and footswitch control from your guitar’s tone knob
- Rob Papen takes you Back In Time with BIT, a pure analogue-modelled plugin synth
- Bernard Purdie chooses his six career-defining drum performances
- EssenceFM is a 300-voice synth that looks like the FM hardware of the future
- ROLI teases a controller keyboard that ‘teaches you to play your favourite songs and lets you compose and produce in a new way’
- Donal Gallagher: “Playing with Muddy Waters was Rory’s badge of honour”
- ZT's new Lunchbox Reverb combo revealed
June 10
- PNAU: 5 things we’ve learned about music production
- Unfiltered Audio says that TRIAD is “the world’s most advanced multi-band processor”
- Supro’s super-rare 1959 Triple Tone guitar is reborn as the Tri Tone
- Psychic Modulation heats up the multi-effect market with its VectoMelt plugin
- Mesa/Boogie's Fillmore 100 adds headroom to its vintage-voiced series
- David Friesen: “Focus on the notes and the phrasing - because that’s where the substance is”
- Laptop Musician Blog releases free acoustic piano, electric piano and pad plugins
- Matt Bellamy awards Tom Morello with custom Manson electric guitar
June 8
- Classic interview: Red Hot Chili Peppers' Chad Smith on Californication
June 7
- Is SubLab from Future Audio Workshop the ideal kick synth?
- Brann Dailor: “I see riffs cinematically”
- This week’s best free plugins and music software: VST brass, chorus, a music box and a sequencer
- Matt Bellamy acquires Manson Guitar Works
- Me in my studio: The Bloody Beetroots
- How to choose the right guitar strings for your sound
- How Guitarist of the Year helped Guthrie Govan, Dave Kilminster and more become guitar stars
- 5 things guitarists can learn from Prince
- Steve Stevens: these are the 10 guitarists who blew my mind
- Tone King releases Imperial MKII head with built-in Ironman II attenuator
- Celebrate Prince’s birthday with OB-Xd, an Oberheim-style synth for iPad
- Morgan’s Dual 20 teams its AC 20 Deluxe and Abbey for one all-powerful amp
- New Orleans legend Dr. John dies, aged 77
June 6
- Avicii's TIM: a track-by-track guide to the making of the album
- iZotope’s Neutron 3 listens to your track and then mixes it for you
- Enner from Soma Laboratory is a synth that will feed off your emotions
- Joyo launches Guitto accessories brand with Velcro-free guitar pedalboard
- Framus showcases stunning 3D tops on new Panthera II Studio Supreme
- Propellerhead’s Europa synth is coming to the Soundation online DAW, and this could just be the start
- Røde’s new TF-5 condenser microphones promise to take your breath away
- The FX files: Pro Co Rat
- Bill Wurtz: “Bass is a hypnosis tool. If it’s done properly it makes you like the song better without knowing why”
- Matt Bellamy has an Arturia Prophet V synth built into his guitar, courtesy of Fishman and Mind Music Labs
June 5
- Yotto's favourite music software
- Zoom’s Livetrak L-20R portable mixer/recorder could be your live band’s new best friend
- Mastering The Mix’s Bassroom is like a ‘studio audio engineer in a plugin’
- One for the road - Robin Trower: “I was playing with Jack Bruce and my amp caught fire. That was a bit Spinal Tap”
- Is Morifone’s Aileron the future of guitar headstocks?
- Old Blood Noise Endeavors unveils Whitecap asynchronous dual tremolo pedal
- Get a taste of a contemporary prog rhythm powerhouse with this Rendezvous Point drum and bass playthrough
- Ibanez’s Fingerstyle Collection acoustics will unleash your creativity
- Initial Audio’s new plugin lets you ‘master a beat in 30 seconds’
- Ernie Ball debuts Primo, Mega and Mammoth Slinky guitar strings
June 4
- Reloop's Spin is a portable turntable for scratch DJs
- The 1010 Music Blackbox standalone sampler workstation is shipping now
- New guitar gear of the month: review round-up (June 2019)
- Robert Smith employs Line 6 Spiders for The Cure’s mammoth Disintegration shows
- Get Native Instruments Komplete upgrades for half price, or bag a bargain hardware/software bundle
- Let’s hope the free Lurker Chorus plugin sounds as colourful as it looks
- Mooer set to disrupt multi-effects market as astonishingly feature-rich GE300 lands
- Nylon is a new plugin synth that lets you shape your sound using ‘geometric oscillators’
- Best Strat-style guitars under $/£1,000 2023: affordable and mid-priced S-styles you need to play
- The playlist: Megadeth's Dave Mustaine
- Boutique pedal company Prescription Electronics announces return
- Apple WWDC: 4 things that music makers need to know about
June 3
- Solar Guitars unleashes metal monsters with new 8-string and baritone electric guitars
- United Plugins launches with 3 effects from 3 different developers
- New hi-tech music gear of the month: review round-up (June 2019)
- Behringer drops the first picture of its Synthi VCS3 clone
- Here’s how two Novation Peaks combined to create the theme from... Twin Peaks
- Hear Sabian and A&F Drum Co.'s new ANKH cymbal collaboration
- Auto-Tune EFX+ is more than just a pitchshifting plugin
- Mayday Parade's Jeremy Lenzo: “I don’t care about being the best bass player; I just want to write the best songs”
- 6 fresh guitar artists you need to hear in June 2019