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"You simply do not need thousands of pounds of high-end gear and a top-end studio to create a great track": 8 mixing and mastering techniques every bedroom producer should know

We show you how to craft a pro-sounding mix using the tools available in every DAW

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“That sarcasm became the song”: Pharrell Williams says his mega-hit Happy isn’t as sincere and joyful as you think, and that he’ll never stop loving former Neptunes partner Chad Hugo

“There's nothing that he or anyone else could do to ever make me feel differently about what we did together and what I wish for him. Nothing”

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“Greeny is my Excalibur!”: Metallica’s Kirk Hammett says he’s still in love with that famous guitar

He calls it “a magic piece of wood”

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“Okay, if I were to meet David Bowie, would I feel okay about showing David Bowie this album?”: Modular synthesist Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith on making meditative electronic masterpiece, Ears

The Californian artist on the live Buchla jams that created her breakthrough album

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“The record industry is, pretty much, dead”: Al Di Meola speaks out about the lack of opportunities for young musicians

Al Di Meola bemoans the death of the record industry

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“I almost think of it as audio archaeology”: Universal Audio CEO Bill Putnam Jr on the brand’s decades-long quest to capture the spirit of classic studio gear in software

With the launch of a new generation of Apollo interfaces, one of the music tech industry’s most iconic brands shows no signs of slowing down

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“Clean explores the wild side of compression and brings the interactivity of distortion circuits to a clean signal”: Chase Bliss unveils Clean, a studio-quality analogue compressor with a “fun” twist

Make that many, many twists… This being a Chase Bliss design, Clean presents stereo compression like never before

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Jonny Greenwood: Radiohead have "no plans" for 2025

“We’ve lots of individual projects going on at the moment”

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“I’m kind of fascinated with that tipping point where the artist can say ‘I don't need you anymore. Why would I need you?’”: Are record labels at risk of irrelevance? this industry expert thinks so

Does the future belong to social media-savvy musicians

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“Johnny offered his services to the band”: What Noel Gallagher said when one of his heroes almost joined Oasis

With ‘Bonehead’ gone, who you gonna call?

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“It’s the perfect combination of vintage Fender vibe and modern high-tech performance”: Fender expands its Tone Master lineup with a tweed-covered '59 Bassman – a lightweight, digital-brained 4x10 with mojo to burn

One of the most iconic amps in the Fender lineup gets the Tone Master treatment and you know what that means: old-school tone in a lightweight format, with modern features like power scaling, effects loop and balanced XLR out with cab sims

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“This finish uses real silver in the paint… before the final clear coat is applied, the silver oxidises naturally, allowing the finish to change over time”: Ernie Ball Music Man launches Tosin Abasi's Kaizen in Gallium and it is the coolest finish ever

Available as a six or seven-string, the Kaizen Gallium looks like an alien artefact, guitar design as a work of sci-fi, and we want one now. The bad news? They're only making 66 of them

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“When I do the solo I’m actually out front on the stage with Olivia jumping around, but we MIDI-mapped the expression pedal so it’ll do all the whammy changes”: Olivia Rodrigo guitarist Emily Rosenfield spills her Guts World Tour secrets

Fellow guitarist Daisy Spencer and bassist Moa Munoz have also been talking gear and tone

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Slice beats, humanise grooves and work around the 4-track limit: 9 tips to help you get started with Ableton Move

We catch up with Ableton to get some tips on how to get the most out of the company's new hardware groovebox

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“It’s always hard to try to find the right innovation sweet spot, because you can do things that are too far ahead of the market”: ROLI CEO Roland Lamb on Airwave, setting music free and the challenges of innovating in today's industry

Is Airwave the ultimate music learning tool? Roland Lamb thinks so…

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“If Beethoven himself were here today, and he was sitting at the piano, what would the approach be?”: Jon Batiste takes Für Elise to unexpected places as he previews his Beethoven Blues album

A different kind of Ludvig van jam

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"We joined our creative forces and, in the end, we brought together the best of both worlds": BABYMETAL and Electric Callboy team up to create their own free videogame

BABYMETAL and Electric Callboy have launched their own video game

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“My playing has always sucked, but it sells!”: The guitarist who co-wrote two of the most famous songs of all time admits he is no virtuoso

For R&B legend Steve Cropper, playing guitar is all about groove

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Here's how you can win a $7,500 vintage Minimoog signed by Peter Gabriel

Proceeds from the Bob Moog Foundation's raffle will support its elementary school education project Dr. Bob's SoundSchool

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“I was sort of hot in those days!”: The guitarist who had the cojones to replace Gary Moore in Thin Lizzy - and the chops to play alongside David Gilmour in Pink Floyd.

Snowy White on filling some very big shoes in 1980

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"Signature models mean just that. You play the same bass I play, and you're probably better at it than I am": Blink-182's Mark Hoppus gives us the lowdown on his brand-new Fender bass and discloses why he has switched to the Neural DSP Quad Cortex

The pop-punk bassist discusses his new signature model, what got him interested in Fender basses, what he believes is his greatest riff and more

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“When we signed a record deal with Warner Brothers, she was cleaning toilets on the same day”: Will the rocketing cost of being a musician eventually kill the industry?

A deep dive into the economics of being a music-maker in the 2020s

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“Probably some of the dumbest sh*t this band has ever put out… I want it”: Green Day fans are loving the crazy formats for Dookie ‘De-Mastered’

Green Day re-issue 'de-mastered' version of Dookie

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Olivia Rodrigo sparks intense speculation that she’ll be headlining Glastonbury 2025 with announcement of rescheduled UK Guts World Tour dates

They fall right after the weekend of the festival

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“Spreading Utopia into fully surround speakers... 27 moving curtains... bespoke instruments: an aluphone, a circular flute and a reverb chamber... in a personal chapel”: Take cover, it’s Bjork’s new book

Bjork has a new (baffling) book out

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