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October 31
- Something wicked this way comes . . . It's Haunted Labs' Scorched Earth Fuzz
- Today in extreme metal bass tone: Watch Strigoi bassist Chris Casket's guide to his pedalboard
- Asken Guitars launches the Intercooler H2T Drop Top Series
- Waves v11 updates the Renaissance line, adds 1400 artist presets and increases compatibility
- Dubreq’s Stylophone Gen R-8 is ready to ship
- Mooer Audio gives its modelling amp series a new look with the Hornet White
- The best Halloween songs of all time
- The Flash Synth is a 16-voice instrument that's the size of a DIN plug and an audio out jack
- Sadist’s Andrea Nasso: “Six-strings? I’m still afraid of them”
October 30
- Larkin Poe interview: Megan and Rebecca Lovell on the endless possibilities of slide guitar and playing 21st-century blues
- Positive Grid releases Spark, the jam-a-long smart amplifier and app combo
- 5 minutes alone - The Pretender's James Walbourne: "Chrissie gave me a ’57 Strat and I play it every night. Constantly. I’ve been told not to."
- A/B the original and 25th anniversary mixes of REM's Monster
- SoundSpot's new wavetable synth plugin intros at a ludicrous £5.99
- Watch: Gretsch reveals its expanded guitar range for left-handed players
- Mommy, can I go out and busk tonight? Blackstar unveils the wireless Misfits 3 amplifier
- Mooer Audio launches the small-format E7 Synth pedal for guitar
- Infradeep's PVX-800 is a Siberian analogue synth based on the Polyvox circuit design
- As Ableton Loop 2020 in Berlin gets closer, more artists are announced
October 29
- Joyo Audio keeps it analogue with the R-10 Nascar Delay
- Megadeth's Dave Mustaine is selling a whole bunch of gear on Reverb.com
- Modern Americana: a guitarist's guide
- Watch: Alcest's Neige talks tone and gear
- Gibson unveils a Halloween special with the "Bats in Flight" Les Paul Custom
- This pack of '80s-style presets for Omnisphere 2 was created by electronic pioneer BT
- These 240 patches have been designed with MPE in mind
- Apple's AirPods Pro are the high-tech in-ears you never thought you needed
- Yamaha's AI piano project apes Glenn Gould's playing style on stage – and it can duet, too
October 28
- Airbourne's Joel O’Keeffe and Matt “Harri” Harrison share their top 5 tips for guitarists: “Go form a band!”
- Kurt Cobain's Fender Mustang sold at auction for $340,000
- Joyo Audio brings nine types of reverb to the party with the Atmosphere stompbox
- Tracklib Loops lets you audition portions from real songs then legally sample them
- Give your phone a Gibson makeover with a premium tonewood and pearl cover
- Simone Butler (Primal Scream): “My advice? Don’t fear failure - fear regret”
- Someone finally came up with a Soundflower replacement, and it's free for Mac users
- Learning to play guitar? The Really Useful Guitar Poster has you and your wall covered
October 27
- Gibson unveils the Alvin Lee ES-335 ‘69 Festival’ Custom Shop signature model
October 25
- Get three Loopmasters sample packs worth $99/£84.95 with ANY Plugin Boutique purchase right now
- Fender to introduce more signature models for female artists in 2020 than ever before
- The Track: GRiZ breaks down Mercy, feat Valentina
- Spitfire Audio has captured the BBC Symphony Orchestra in its “most ambitious project to date”
- Jared Dines' 18-string guitar sells for charity… and now you can win a 20-string
- Kuassa’s DL3606 puts 5 delay effects in one guitar pedal plugin
October 24
- Gibson loses its Firebird guitar body shape trademark in the EU
- Got Studio One? Get E-Instruments’ sampled eBass for free
- How low can your guitar go? The OPFXS Dig Deep pedal is a bassist emulator
- Eventide’s $99 Quadravox harmonizer plugin is currently yours for free
October 23
- Strymon announces the Iridium pedal
- Watch: Metal guitarist / producer Will Putney on recording his own band
- SolidGoldFX launches the 76 Plus octave up fuzz and filter
- The FX files: Z.Vex Fuzz Factory
- 5 of the best speech synthesizers for robotic vocal sounds
- Can a whiskey barrel guitar improve your tone?
- How to record a full band in the studio
- Softube’s Console 1 Fader is a hybrid mixing platform for your DAW
- Universal Audio’s next-gen Apollo desktop audio interfaces have landed
- Superlative’s SB01 synth looks like a Roland SH-101 from the future
October 22
- Tool fan asks man to take his pic at gig… doesn't realise it's Eddie Van Halen
- PRS Guitars announces more new models and an upgrade to all its pickups for 2020
- Here’s how Elton John is letting fans create their own live sound mixes at his gigs
- New Fender Songs app features over 750k songs to learn
- Mark Ronson uses LEGO to show you how to make a track
- A bassist's guide to Bootsy Collins: The must-have album and what to avoid
- The Playlist – Jamie Lenman: “The theme tune to ThunderCats is a f**king song, right?”
- Silverburst Telecasters, Stratocasters and Jazzmasters now available online
- Issue 350 of Future Music is on sale now
- Is the one-button Skwitch the world’s first idiot-proof musical instrument?
October 21
- Walter Becker’s Steely Dan Aja Fender guitar smashes estimate price at auction
- Acclaimed iOS music-making app NanoStudio 2 now works on the iPhone
- French touch legend Alan Braxe says that downsizing his synth setup has inspired new music
- Tool's Justin Chancellor: “We wouldn’t be satisfied with something that wasn’t taken as far as we could take it”
- Fionn Regan: “The guitar, to me, is like the ‘lightning rod’. When that mysterious thing is working, everything resonates from that”
- Could D16’s Godfazer modulation effect plugin be all-powerful?
October 20
- Acoustic Guitarist Of The Year finalist to release new instrumental duo album
October 19
- Gibson unveils the first ever Chuck Berry signature guitar
October 18
- Hands-on demo: Kemper takes to the floor with the new Profiler Stage, can it compete in an ever-growing market?
- Rig tour: Dan Donegan (Disturbed)
- Oberom is a free VST/AU plugin for classic ‘80s analogue polysynth sounds
- PRS Guitars announces the return of the SE One model
- The workshop: Seth Baccus Guitars
- Behringer references Beethoven as it teases something that’s been “30 years in the making”
- Paul McCartney, Eric Clapton, David Gilmour, Jimmy Page, Jeff Beck and more sign guitar for charity auction
- The wishlist: H.S. Anderson Vintage Reissue Mad Cat MkII - "Prince discovered one of these rare guitars early on in his career"
- Universal Audio to launch “new Apollo desktop interfaces” next week
- Victory Amps reveals The Copper VC35 all-valve head
October 17
- Electro-Harmonix announces the 5MM Power Amp pedal
- Dave Hill: “We were always thinking outside the box, but we were also conscious of entertainment”
- The Analogue Pocket retro handheld plays Game Boy carts and comes with the Nanoloop synth/sequencer built in
- Bryan Beller: “With the Aristocrats, there’s a licence to do anything... and we have fun with it”
- New Godin Guitars Session HT model announced
- ROLI’s Blocks controllers might just have become a whole lot more useful
- Fractal Bits is a $1.99 drum synth that gives you 4 billion sounds
- Is Strymon teasing a new effects pedal?
October 16
- Electro Harmonix announce Ram's Head Big Muff Pi
- AKG’s Lyra is a multimode USB microphone that offers “ultra-HD” sound
- Native Instruments’ Traktor Kontrol S3 is its new “essential” four-deck DJ controller
- Solar Guitars unveil new distressed models
- Watch Kirk Hammett guest with UFO playing the legendary Greeny Les Paul
- FX guru Roger Mayer on Hendrix: “Anybody can buy a wah and just make it go ‘wah-wah-wah’, but making it talk is something else”
- 4 essential free FX plugins for a lo-fi sound
- New PRS SE signature models announced
- Slipknot's VMan: “My approach isn’t the same as Paul’s. I can’t be him and never will be”
- Steinberg's WaveLab 10 is designed for mastering, audio editing and more
October 15
- Novation unveils Launchpad X and Launchpad Mini Ableton Live controllers
- Klevgrand’s Knorr could be the plugin to give your bass sounds the edge they’ve been missing
- Samantha Fish: “Best tip for live sound? Turn the amp up!”
- Give it a whirl: Eventide releases Rotary Mod, a Leslie speaker for iOS
- Get just a little bit dirty with Syntheway’s Overdriverb plugin
- Mike Bendy: “I interviewed Victor Wooten for my high school newspaper - an eye-opening experience for a young bassist”
October 14
- LooperEYE aims to offer the best of pedal and DAW worlds
- Sustainable 3D-printed guitar Kickstarter launched
- Guitar review round-up: Flanger pedals
- Jeremy Wagner on Paul Gray: “When he passed away, I couldn’t believe it”
- Is Eddie Van Halen undergoing cancer treatment?
- Phonocut lets you cut your own vinyl records at home
- Get KV331 Audio SynthMaster Player free for a limited time
October 11
- Joe Satriani to release a solo-free Surfing With The Alien for Record Store Day
- Marcus King releases new song The Well and announces forthcoming solo album
- SampleRadar: 264 free urban spaces samples
- John Petrucci announces details of his Guitar Universe 3.0 summer camp
- EHX adds NYC Cans and Sport Buds to its wireless headphones lineup
- Everything you need to know about: acid house
- Harrison Consoles is letting you download its AVA Mastering EQ plugin for free
- Classic gear: Fender Jazzmaster
- UVI’s Falcon soft synth plugin spreads its wings and lands at version 2
- Dougie Payne: “There’s something so elegant about the simplicity of the four-string bass. They’re just beautiful instruments”
October 10
- Raise a gallop in your basslines with Tech 21's Steve Harris SH1 Signature SansAmp
- Kurt Cobain's custom-built Fender Mustang is up for auction
- Lost your groove? Audiomodern’s Playbeat plugin will create drum patterns for you
- JBL’s Eon One Compact PA may be little, but it also promises to be loud
- Electronic musicians can download a free guide to mental health
- Blackstar launches the Silverline series – a boutique approach to digital guitar amplification
October 9
- YouTube djent sensation Jared Dines selling custom 18-string guitar on eBay
- Ernie Ball Music Man unveils October's Ball Family Reserve collection
- The 8 best vlogging cameras for musicians 2023: share your music with the world
- Source Audio launches the Collider Delay+Reverb pedal
- PRS to celebrate 35th Anniversary with six new SE models for 2020
- Rhythmic is a “groundbreaking” AI beat assistant that lets you reshape your loops in real time
- Get iconic Bowie, Springsteen and Chic FX presets in new Apogee plugin
- A bassist’s guide to Chuck Rainey
October 8
- Fender releases the opulent Flame Koa Top Stratocaster
- DSM and Humboldt Electronics unveil the Simplifier, a "zero-watt" stereo guitar amplifier
- DESIGNER DISTORTION – Computer Music issue 275 is out now
- Me and my guitar: Matt Bigland (Dinosaur Pile-Up)
- Meet Yamato Mori, Young Guitarist of the Year 2019
- You can now control IK Multimedia’s UNO Drum drum machine from your DAW or iPad
- Things is a synth plugin for people who don’t understand synth plugins
October 7
- How to set up a live synth multitrack recording session with the Steinberg AXR4
- Mark Knopfler: "I hold a guitar like a plumber holds a hammer"
- macOS X 10.15 Catalina is here: this is what musicians and producers need to know
- Deep Space Devices makes first contact with the Radio-Bright ring modulation and delay
- Fender’s new Tone Master amps deliver authentic tube sound in an innovative digital package
- Here’s why Roland’s new FANTOM could be the only synth you need
- Blast from the past: Casio VZ-1 and VZ-10M
- Waldorf’s Kyra is here, and it’s “one of the most powerful synthesizers ever built”
- Molly Tuttle: “I think I became more and more obsessed and in love with playing”
- In-depth: the history of P-90s, and how to pick one
- Make your iPad sound like a vintage tape machine with ToneBoosters ReelBus
- The Fender Custom Shop is making a Joe Bonamassa '51 Nocaster signature model
- The Kee Bass is a free VST/AU bass synth plugin that emulates a ‘60s keyboard curio
October 6
- Ginger Baker, Cream’s legendary drummer, dies aged 80
October 4
- Gibson has made Marcus Lee King a signature ES-345
- Electro-Harmonix launches the small but deadly Nano Operation Overlord
- FoxGear pedals unveils the Multitune polyphonic tuner
- John Mayer: why amp modelling "doesn't quite get it"
- Strata does things that other Ableton Live controllers can’t, says its creator
- Step up your creative workflow with Audiomodern’s random sequence generator, Playbeat
- Ecstasequence is a portable sampler with push-down knobs
- I Heart NY is a parallel compressor plugin that lets you ‘Spank’ your audio into shape
- Ozone 9 is here, and iZotope says it’s “the future of mastering”
- Zeal & Ardor: “I see [the guitar] as a tool. And I am very cautious of romanticising the tool rather than the action”
October 3
- The Jimi Hendrix Experience return to the Royal Albert Hall for a special one-off concert movie
- Lowden celebrates 45 years of acoustic guitar building with a very special O-25
- Hands-on video: Find out how Loopmasters Loopcloud 5 could change the way you work with samples
- Behringer’s $35 studio headphones look strangely familiar
- Jam Pedals joins the Tubedreamer and Lucydreamer in pedalboard matrimony for the Double Dreamer dual overdrive
- Boss updates the Katana amp series promising "more tones, more effects, and more features"
- Yamaha’s Sonogenic SHS-300 probably isn’t going to make the keytar cool again
- M-Audio’s Air Series USB-C audio interfaces promise high performance at affordable prices
- Polyphia vs Covet round table: “I hope that guitar music dies. I want it to die a painful death”
- Line 6 unveils the Spider V 20 MkII practice amp
October 2
- Bust down the doors of perception with MXR's Brown Acid Fuzz pedal
- Pimp out your Elektron Model:Samples for $35
- Dr Z prescribes its new Jetta combo for the "amateur hobbyist to professional" guitar player alike
- Could the ToneSpot Electric plugin be the missing ingredient in your guitar rig?
- Jimi Hendrix's Band of Gypsys shows at New York’s Fillmore East to be released in deluxe box set
- Watch Slash talk about his 1966 Gibson EDS-1275 Doubleneck
- Save time and money: Synchro Arts’ VocALign Project is available at a 33% discount
- Kirk Hammett ESP Sparkle Ouija limited editions unleashed
- Pioneer DJ’s DDJ-XP2 is a Serato and rekordbox controller that you can “hit as hard as you want”
October 1
- Pete Townshend says guitar-driven rock 'n' roll is on the decline
- Lil Nas X says he paid just $50 to record Old Town Road
- Les Paul vs SG: Gibson's two greatest solid body electric guitars battle it out
- Omar Rodríguez-López has a sweet new Ernie Ball Music Man signature offset
- Watch Kirk Hammett talk amplifiers and reveal that someone offered $750,000 for a Dumble he once owned
- Hudson Electronics unveils Ariel Posen signature Broadcast-AP preamp pedal
- Justin Hawkins: these are the 10 guitarists who blew my mind
- Denise has taken the worst elements of tape and put them in a plugin
- Opeth’s Mikael Åkerfeldt: “I wanted stuff that would bring tears to the eyes. A different voice”
- Steinberg’s new UR-C USB 3.0 audio interfaces offer Yamaha preamps and DSP effects
- Xotic Effects unveils two new volume pedals