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- January 31
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- See a demo of the new Billy F. Gibbons signature guitar
- Well Hollow there: Sinevibes releases its “biggest-sounding” effect yet, a massive “space reverb” plugin
- U2's The Edge and Bono perform acoustic version of Sunday Bloody Sunday with new lyrics
- Hinako Omori: "As a disclaimer, I’d recommend not listening to the music while operating heavy machinery"
- 10 ways to get more out of the Elektron Digitakt
- Andrew Garfield on Tick, Tick… Boom: “I think we've managed to trick people into thinking that I am fluent with piano”
- January 30
- January 29
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- Hear a restored clip of Jimi Hendrix jamming two days before his death
- Electric guitars you should play in 2022: must-try axes from Cort, PRS, Fender, Squier, Epiphone and more
- Erica Synths at Gear Expo 2022: PĒRKONS percussion synth brings the thunder
- Taylor Guitars at Gear Expo 2022: stunning new American Dream and Grand Theater acoustics
- The top new music software releases heading your way in 2022: Cubase 12, NI Komplete Now and much more
- The new effects pedals you need to be stomping in 2022
- Session Loops at Gear Expo 2022: the next-generation music production platform
- January 28
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- Harley Benton brings the satin black back with the £107 ST-20HH Active SBK guitar
- Doug Rogers on Forbidden Planet, EastWest's newest synth instrument: "This is not a traditional synth, the world doesn't need another one of those"
- 1010music’s nanobox synths promise granular and wavetable sounds in cute and capable packages
- ToneGym opens the free online Melody Trainer: learn by listening and transcribing in this new topline tool
- 6 AI-powered intelligent plugins that could change the way you make music
- New grooveboxes and drum machines for 2022
- New acoustic guitars to play in 2022: Taylor, Fender, Sheeran/Lowden, Martin and Yamaha instruments on show
- Great new drum kits you need to try in 2022
- The Chief Disruptor has arrived: it's KMA Machines' new Fuzz/Distortion pedal
- Kiefer Sutherland on gigs, playing guitar and 6 songs he fell in love with: “This interview is doing nothing for my reputation, is it?”
- A Magnatone for the home? Meet the Starlite 5-watt combo
- Gibson Custom Shop unveils $9K Mike Ness 1976 Les Paul Deluxe
- "The AD27e is a very different guitar for us": Andy Powers on the latest crop of acoustics from Taylor Guitars
- SampleRadar: 269 free glitch kit samples
- New pianos and home keyboards to check out in 2022: more affordable and powerful than ever
- New hardware synths for 2022: Casio, Roland, Behringer and more incoming
- The hottest new electronic drum sets for 2022
- IK Multimedia at Gear Expo 2022: Putting musicians first
- Laney Bass at Gear Expo 2022: explore the Digbeth range of amps, cabinets and effects
- The new studio and recording gear to make you sound great in 2022
- Softube at Gear Expo 2022: the sound of the '80s with the Model 84
- Audient at Gear Expo 2022: professional audio quality, available to everyone
- Gibson at Gear Expo 2022: Maestro pedals – shape your sound
- Shure at Gear Expo 2022: sound like no other
- Gretsch’s 2022 Electromatic range refreshes classic designs with Broad’Tron-equipped Jets and revised Hollow Bodies featuring all-new FT-5E Filter’Tron pickups
- Charvel unveils O.G. Pearl White Jake E Lee signature model and more in blockbuster 2022 Pro Mod release
- Leapwing Audio at Gear Expo 2022: putting innovation in the hands of musicians, producers and engineers
- GEWA Drums at Gear Expo 2022: introducing the G5 – a digital kit for advanced performers
- Laney at Gear Expo 2022: meet the Ironheart amp range, forged deep in the Black Country
- Essential new drum accessories for 2022
- January 27
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- Teenage Engineering reveals new OP-Z Line module, which might add the I/O that you’ve been wishing for
- EVH unveil new 5150 and Wolfgang series guitars for 2022
- Martin expands Road Series with three new SC acoustic electric single-cut guitars for 2022
- Thought you’d missed your chance to save 50% on Arturia’s V Collection 8 and FX Collection 2 plugin bundles? We have great news for you
- Universal Audio Volt are some of the best value audio interfaces we’ve seen
- Fender's Paramount series adds new acoustic guitars, banjo and mandolin
- EastWest Sounds at Gear Expo 2022: introducing Forbidden Planet - a hybrid synth odyssey
- Villager: "My Elektron Digitakt - I love that thing. I can do drum programming in a few minutes that would take me hours inside a DAW"
- January 26
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- Gretsch reveals a trio of new additions to its great value Streamliner guitar series
- Fender's new Frontman 20G: a worthy candidate for a first guitar amp?
- Fender’s Hammertone pedals range aims to cover the basics with a high-quality, entry-level effects line
- Learn John Bonham's most famous Led Zeppelin beats with a free course from Drumeo
- Millenium unveils MPS-1000 electronic drum set with real wood shells
- Tama introduces Club-JAM Pancake, its smallest and lightest compact drum set
- Jackson unveils new high-end Concept Series and a sleek signature Soloist for Arch Enemy guitarist Jeff Loomis
- Squier celebrates a big birthday with 40th Anniversary Gold Collection
- Tascam releases the Portacapture X8: a high-spec multitrack recorder that fits in your pocket
- LANDR’s one-knob multi-effect plugins promise “a great-sounding mix fast”
- Dave Mustaine shows you how to play Megadeth classic Symphony Of Destruction
- Softube’s Dirty Tape is a filthy free plugin full of lo-fi analogue warmth
- Fender celebrates 60 years of Jaguar with classic-style and Ultra Luxe stealth models
- With the Aural ID plugin, studio monitor manufacturer Genelec is promising a better experience when you’re mixing on headphones
- TS7: "A lot of electronic musicians don’t play actual instruments; they don’t seem to go there"
- Squier offers a Classic Vibe dose of heavy with new Baritone Custom Telecaster
- Fender reveals new JV Modified series of Tele and Strat guitars
- Ghost hired Opeth's Fredrik Åkesson to play guitar on their new album: "He's the sort of person who plays five hours every day"
- January 25
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- Epiphone launches the Joan Jett Olympic Special, a stripped down rock machine based on her number one stage guitar
- D’Angelico unveils 6 stunning limited edition Deluxe models for 2022
- Meinl unveils its 2022 cymbal and accessory line-up, and it's huge
- Jackson Audio and Cory Wong join forces for The Optimist – a MIDI-controllable dual overdrive and EQ based on classic Klon and Timmy stompboxes
- Do look up and check out this free online synth that’s powered by NASA’s live asteroid proximity data
- Evans Drumheads launches Snare Tune-Up Kits
- Manson Guitar Works and Adam “Nolly” Getgood’s Oryx series of six and seven-string electric guitars is available to order
- GForce Software’s M-Tron MkII plugin tackles ‘the mother of all Mellotrons’
- Vic Firth goes wireless with VF Bluetooth Isolation Headphones for drummers
- Cort gives the KX700 the EverTune treatment and unveils a pair of shred-ready KX307 multi-scale 7-strings
- Infinite Space Piano is a free keyboard plugin that enables you to create a “limitless sound space”
- Jam Pedals adds tap tempo plus subdivisions to its refreshed and upgraded Delay Llama mk.3
- Neil Young threatens to leave Spotify over ‘vaccine misinformation’ on Joe Rogan podcast show
- Damon Albarn apologises to Taylor Swift after appearing to question her songwriting credentials
- January 24
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- What is the secret of great guitar tone? Ruben Wan has the answer
- What differences do the chips used in reverb and delay pedals make?
- SSL’s final Fusion plugin promises to add “transformer mojo” to vocals, electric guitars or your whole mix
- Natal Drums welcomes hybrid drumming pioneer Andy Gangadeen
- 4 ways to create atmosphere and texture with processed vocals
- Bleass says that its new Omega plugin is “not just easier than other FM synths, it’s easy - period!”
- Bryan Adams reveals what his first real six-string was
- Clapton speaks out: "I'm cut from the cloth where if you tell me I can't do something, I really wanna know why I can't do it"
- 3 successful track arrangements for pop and EDM, explained
- New Yamaha PSR-E portable keyboards promise “pro-quality sound for the first time”
- MMM: "At some point we get the feeling that we’re not in charge anymore – the track has a life of its own and is suggesting what it wants"
- Andy Summers on his iconic Police Telecaster: "It would be $1m if anyone wants to buy it"
- January 23
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- January 21
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- Zultan launches the Workout Pad drum practice pad
- The Meinl Drum Tech Kit could help save your gig or rehearsal
- Cort rolls out a suite of high-performance electrics, including X300 models with flip-flop finishes and EMG RetroActive pickups
- Waves' 76-plugin Diamond bundle slashed to lowest price ever – 24 hours only
- Mackie’s M•Caster Live is a compact live streaming mixer with one-knob vocal effects and RGB lighting
- Put the gull into Gilmour with Jam Pedals’ Seagull – a cocked wah filter that also replicates Pink Floyd’s Echoes effect
- GuitarGuitar is now employee-owned
- Could Roland’s n/zyme Model Expansion be the cutting-edge wavetable synth plugin that runs in your Fantom hardware?
- Does NUX’s Ace Of Tone offer more value than any other dual overdrive pedal in the world right now?
- Daft Punk's Homework turns 25: discover the gear and production techniques behind the sound
- Meat Loaf dies, aged 74: Bat Out Of Hell singer’s death confirmed
- January 20
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- Casio launches text-powered vocal synthesis keyboard: “If you can type it, the CT-S1000V can sing it”
- Death By Audio's Germanium Filter pedal is its "love letter to sticking a pencil in your speaker"
- Is the new Walrus Audio MAKO M1 the only modulation pedal you'll ever need?
- How to design a virtual amp in BIAS Amp 2
- Greta Van Fleet guitarist Jake Kiszka on his 1961 Gibson Les Paul SG: "This particular model has defined me as a player and I think I've defied it in return"
- Taylor expands American Dream Series and Grand Theatre builds with five new for ’22 models
- Could Blue Cat Audio’s Connector plugin be the last word in DAW audio and MIDI routing?
- SampleRadar: 438 free cheap synth samples
- Roland unveils 50th anniversary website and teases a new ‘50th model’ to be launched on 18 April
- Joe Satriani returns with new track Sahara, announces The Elephants Of Mars album
- January 19
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- Bono says he’s often embarrassed listening to U2 and that his vocals make him cringe
- Ibanez and Steve Vai officially unleash The Hydra guitar, and it's a beast
- How to get a great guitar tone in Logic
- Casio promises improved sound, better playability and more features with its new affordable CDP-S digital pianos
- Cinthie: "Bassline and kick drum are the most important things in dance music"
- January 18
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- Cory Wong says rhythm guitarists often make these 3 mistakes
- Video: Check out our 6 favourite guitar tones on Positive Grid’s Authentic Hendrix pack for BIAS FX 2 and Spark
- ESP’s Phase 1 monster launch debuts 43 high-performance guitars for 2022
- Antelope Audio gets even more Zen with the USB version of the Q Synergy Core audio interface
- Classic album: Prince Fatty takes us through Supersize track by track
- Gibson revives legendary Maestro pedals brand with five new stompboxes, including the Fuzz-Tone FZ-M
- Mastro Valvola’s OFF1 combines octave, fuzz and ladder filter effects in one tweakable pedal
- Positive Grid’s Riff is a USB audio interface designed for guitarists
- Steve Vai reflects on Generation Axe and explains why nobody can play like Yngwie Malmsteen
- Disclosure reveal the stock Logic plugins that went into their Sam Smith-featuring breakout hit Latch
- Celebrated amp designer Howard Alexander Dumble passes away
- January 17
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- Beat Blue Monday by downloading IK Multimedia’s $100 T-RackS EQ 81 plugin for free: “legendary British warmth and tone with a few twists”
- Classic interview: Stevie Ray Vaughan – "With Hendrix’s music I kept listening and kept trying and trying, and some of the things I just stumbled onto when I’d be playing and things would kind of come to me"
- Complete this short Focusrite survey and win a £500 Amazon voucher
- John Petrucci weighs in on his new Neural DSP Archetype plugin: "It's every aspect of what I want to have at my disposal at any given time"
- Yvette Young teaches guitar finger tapping in new video tutorial
- The beginner's guide to: drill
- Paradise Lost guitarist Greg Mackintosh talks us through their albums so far: "I class my whole career as a learning curve. It still is, otherwise there's no point in doing it"
- Here’s why Bruce Springsteen was the highest-paid musician of 2021
- St Vincent has remixed David Bowie for Peloton, bringing his “throat-shredding vocal” to the fore
- The greatest synth sounds - ranked!
- Greatest synth sounds: New Order - Blue Monday
- January 14
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- PRS refreshes Mark Lettieri’s signature Fiore in new Larkspur finish
- ESP unveils the James Hetfield Snakebyte Camo
- Spaceman Effects relaunches its cult classic six stage phaser as the more compact but equally powerful Explorer
- SampleRadar: 355 free breakbeat samples
- This stunning, player-grade ’53 Gibson Les Paul Goldtop has some of the coolest mods ever, and has just sold for $35,000
- Solar unveils five high-performance, Fishman-equipped electric guitars for 2022
- The Breakdown: Richard Fearless on the record he wishes he'd produced
- Is the sound of televised darts actually a triggered kick drum sample?
- 5 classic albums featuring Dave Grohl on drums: “It’s bare bones, simple drumming”
- Source Audio’s ZIO Analog Front End + Boost packs four preamp circuits into one powerful tone-sweetening stompbox
- Lindsey Buckingham on reunion with Fleetwood Mac: "Maybe we’ll manage to see clear to have one more nice run out there. That would be the proper way to go"
- January 13
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- MXR Poly Blue expands the classic Blue Box octave-fuzz with additional controls, features and modulation
- Steinberg’s Dorico 4 notation software adds new MIDI and workflow features for composers
- PRS unveils 2022 line-up: Private Stock Orianthi, SE and S2 Custom 24-08 models, upgraded electro-acoustics & more!
- Issue 379 of Future Music is out now
- Darkness descends on Arturia as it releases stealthy Noir versions of the MiniBrute 2, 2S and DrumBrute Impact
- Bonobo: “If I look at a piano I tend to reach for the same keys and progressions, whereas with modular you often don’t even know what key you’re in"
- Free online chord progression generator: learn, play and create chord progressions from your browser
- Get Native Instruments' Stacks and Burnt Hues bundle for only £66 and add some vintage mojo to your hip-hop production
- 6 of the best DAWs for guitarists
- Ronnie Spector, lead singer of legendary ‘60s vocal group The Ronettes, dies aged 78
- Find out why the MetaSynth+Xx creative toolbox could give you a whole new way of looking at music-making
- January 12
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- Check out demos of TC Electronic's time-bending Infinite Sample Sustainer pedal
- Orange enters the dual-channel preamp pedal fray with the Guitar Butler
- Watch RJ Ronquillo conjure super-personalized tones with the OPFXS V-Uno Reprogrammable Guitar Pedal
- Classic interview: Oneohtrix Point Never - "For me a synthesizer is an abstract tool; I look at it and I'm just guessing a lot of the time"
- Alex Lifeson returns with new band Envy Of None and Nine Inch Nails-esque new song Liar
- 10 ways to make your mixes sound good on smaller speakers
- PreSonus Studio One 5.5 helps you to get your music release-ready with new mastering and export features
- Johnny Marr on his favourite Smiths song: "It doesn't sound like any other group"
- It looks like new Gibson Kirk Hammett and Adam Jones Flying V models are on the horizon
- John Mayer: "The SE nails the sound and feel of the Silver Sky core model"
- January 11
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- The Walrus Audio SLÖTVA Multi-Texture Reverb is a SLÖ with user presets
- Fender Custom Shop Terry Kath Telecaster pays tribute to the late Chicago guitarist
- Meet Linda IronVerb, the steely new reverb plugin with a metal heart
- Gretsch releases Ash Soan Signature Snare Drum
- Ash Soan on the story behind his new Gretsch signature snare, recording drums, and the importance of social media
- How to get a great guitar sound... without buying an amp
- Remute releases new album for the Nintendo N64, turning the ‘90s console into a synth/sampler hybrid
- Budgie singer / bassist Burke Shelley dies age 71
- Behringer blames chip shortages for product delays: is this going to be the story of 2022?
- The ultimate thrash metal pedal? Anthrax's Scott Ian demos his new signature KHDK JSL Amp-and-Boost
- January 10
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- Remember back in 1982 when Sony released the Chordmachine - a boombox that was also a ‘groovebox’?
- How to build guitar chords the easy way
- "He would take something he liked, filter it through his own sort of genius, and make it his own" – David Bowie's guitarists on working with an icon
- Timbaland compares The Weeknd’s Dawn FM album to Michael Jackson’s Thriller
- "It was like something from space" – Hank Marvin talks in-depth about the Strat
- The Breakdown: Richard Fearless on how to produce ambient techno
- Play feedback like a musical instrument with Minimal Audio’s new free plugin
- Casio offers a first look at its new keyboard and tells us to expect “something incredible very soon”
- Polish a vocal performance with Oeksound's spiff and soothe2
- January 7
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- Drummer Brandon Toews drums along to 175 Rush songs in honour of Neil Peart
- Pearl Jam's Matt Cameron teases studio session with Nirvana bassist Krist Novoselic
- Harley Benton demos its new bargain guitar multi-effects unit, the DNAfx GiT Pro
- Watch Travis Barker reimagine Adele’s Easy On Me in drum cover clip
- SampleRadar: 183 free 80s pop drums samples
- Producer Ken Scott on working with David Bowie: “I compare him to the Beatles in one respect”
- Here we blow again: Roland launches Aerophone AE-20 digital wind instrument
- Efterklang: "People say, ‘What’s the point of using analogue synths? You have to print them anyway, so they still end up in the computer’. That’s true, but it just feels better for me"
- January 6
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- Teenage Engineering supports Cuckoo’s ‘Jamuary’, but are you up to the challenge?
- Get pro-level recordings on your desktop with the Antelope Audio Zen Q Synergy Core
- "There's something about it being really late and dark and relaxing and silent that's more inspiring than a busy, sunny day": How PinkPantheress went from making GarageBand beats in her bedroom to being voted the BBC’s Sound Of 2022
- Fender CEO on guitar and amp stock shortages: "We’re not optimistic at this point it’s going to get significantly better for at least two, maybe three, quarters”
- January 5
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- The Breakdown: Richard Fearless shows us around his "Metal Box", a studio inside a shipping container
- 5 great multi-function guitar effects pedals you need to try
- Shure’s Aonic 40 wireless noise cancelling headphones promise “studio-quality” audio and modern convenience
- Roland TB-303 vs. software emulations: can you tell the difference?
- Meet Valery Vermeulen, the scientist and producer turning black holes into music
- January 4
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- Kirk Hammett discovers his ‘Greeny’ ’59 Gibson Les Paul has a twin, and it’s owned by Gibson’s Cesar Gueikian
- Wave Alchemy’s Triaz drum machine promises “the greatest library of modern drums ever created”
- Ibanez announces upgraded RG Premium and AZ Premium guitars for 2022
- Samsung’s "smart" LED-loaded Zamstar could light the way to learning guitar
- The Black Dog: "We had all the OB8s and Roland stuff, but we just sampled the hell out of them and created our own libraries, so why have thirty grand’s worth of stuff that we bought off Phil Collins sat in the corner?"
- GarageBand power tips: 20 hacks and tricks to try today
- 5 tracks producers need to hear by... Daft Punk
- Ableton Live vs Logic Pro: which DAW is best for you?
- Ibanez unveils Steve Vai JEMJR in black for its 2022 product line-up
- Erica Synths’ new DIY kits will teach you how to design and build your own analogue synth
- Max Portnoy’s essential Joey Jordison Slipknot playlist
- Roland and V-Moda’s Rolling Stones headphones promise “the style and swagger of the world’s greatest rock ‘n’ roll band”
- January 1