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“This is the amp that defined the sound of surf and early rock ’n’ roll”: Universal Audio is giving away its new UAD Showtime '64 Tube Amp plugin worth $149 for free

Placing the punchy, vintage tones of the Fender Showman in your DAW, Showtime '64 is free until October 31st

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"There’s something incredibly satisfying about playing through this amp": Laney Lionheart Foundry Super 60 112

This Laney might be tube-less, but still manages to deliver the roar we’ve come to expect from its fan-favourite Lionheart combo

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“I didn't even want it to be on the record, honestly. How wrong could I have possibly been?”: How Linkin Park created their biggest song that has now racked up billions of streams

Chester Bennington was a little on the fence as to whether Linkin Park’s most enduring track was strong enough to be on their debut

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“A truly go-anywhere production box that’s determined to keep you away from a laptop at all costs”: Akai MPC Live III review

With massively upgraded power, expressive pads and new sequencing tools, Akai’s latest MPC is a DAW-in-a-box powerhouse

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“So, Dave, how do I slash the amp?”: Dave Davies picks up a razor and slashes a speaker on camera to demonstrate how he got the Kinks’ iconic proto-fuzz guitar tone

There are gear demos and then there are gear demos in which a guitar legend performs the most radical amp mod to show us how he got the guitar tone on You Really Got Me

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“I had this ridiculous fantasy of being like Slash with the top hat, no shirt, on stage shredding a Les Paul, but that wasn’t supposed to be me”: Mark Ronson says that he had to come to terms with the fact that he would never be a great guitar player

“I remember thinking, ‘that’s what being a guitarist sounds like. I need to find a new thing’”

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“For the first time, we’re moving beyond samples”: Splice unveils free plugin and virtual instrument platform with hundreds of free presets

INSTRUMENT features 1200+ multi-sampled presets built on sounds from Spitfire Audio, the British virtual instrument developer recently acquired by Splice

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“I didn’t think that Oasis were very good songwriters. This obsession with Britishness just didn’t really compute with us”: Placebo on drugs, Bowie and standing out from Britpop ‘like a sore thumb’

Band have a new documentary coming on

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“Lars has a thing that every time they’ve done an album, he comes and plays it to me, and hopes that I nod and say, ‘That’s a good lad’. I said, ’You forgot the bass!’“: Flemming Rasmussen is still confused by Metallica’s bassless ...And Justice For All

Part of it was to annoy Jason Newsted, producer speculates

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“I wanted to sculpt something off-kilter, a shape that’s equal parts eye-candy and ‘what the hell is that?’”: KHDK has made killer pedals for Scott Ian, Chino Moreno, Gary Holt and more – now it is making electric guitars, with artist collabs coming

KHDK Electronics supremo David Karon debuted his new designs at Guitar Summit, in Mannheim, and while they are not all über-metal, the "all pointy" Model 101 certainly is... metal

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"The core piano sounds have a rich tone with a surprising amount of depth": Roland E-X50 arranger keyboard review

We test drive Roland's beginner-friendly arranger keyboard

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“It’s shocking, it’s disheartening, it’s insulting – most importantly – it’s a wake up call”: Cardiff band decry the fact AI ‘band’ trained on their music overtakes them on Spotify

Holding Absence tell their listeners to “oppose AI music”

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“It possesses the horsepower to remain clean, even at the loudest volumes, and handles – and delivers – the highest dynamic content from your picking hand”: Mesa/Boogie reissues a cult classic that takes the amp brand back to the beginning

Loved by the likes of John Petrucci, the Mark IIC+ HRG presents super-clean tone at super-high volume and a super-tight crunch voicing for rock and metal rhythms

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"Legendary analogue sound for the whole band": Universal Audio launches Volt 876 USB Recording Studio, the first rackmount interface in the Volt series

A 24-in/28-out audio interface equipped with eight tube-emulating Vintage mic preamps and eight 1176-style compressors, Volt 876 is an affordable alternative to Apollo at $999

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“I drove everyone crazy with it because I was the only one who noticed at first, but once I pointed it out we all heard it and wanted it gone”: The curious case of The Weeknd’s mic distortion, and how his live sound team fixed it

“We came to realize that it was the result of the combination of The Weeknd’s unique vocal timbre and the hyping of compression and high-end,” says front of house engineer Derek Brener

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“Our guitars, bass guitar, cymbals, snare, and my pedal board were stolen last night”: Indie rockers The Beths appeal for leads

They’re currently playing on borrowed equipment

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“You can turn an Epiphone into the Tommy Bolin Burst!”: Seymour Duncan expands Joe Bonamassa signature pickup range with a humbucker set based on the PAFs from his 1960 ‘Bolin Burst’ Les Paul Standard

Like JoBo says, got a cheap Les Paul? Give it a high-end power-up with a pair of replica humbuckers from his iconic Bolin Burst, fresh out the custom shop – and the first 500 sets come signed

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“I woke up in the morning and found John watching the sunrise and still listening to the song. It was as if we were both haunted by it”: How Yoko Ono’s disco-infused classic Walking On Thin Ice captivated John Lennon in their final, poignant collaboration

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"It means a lot to me because the greatest feeling in my life, truly, is playing new music for people and seeing their reactions": David Guetta is the World’s Number One DJ – again

French DJ wins award for a record fifth time

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"The 808 is still one of the sexiest drum machines ever built": Modeselektor on classic Roland gear, their new DJ-Kicks mix and why the iPhone has become their go-to instrument

Housed in a new studio, Berlin’s favourite sonic troublemakers crash the DJ-Kicks series with a shape-shifting techno-industrial mix. We sit down with Sebastian Szary to find out more

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“I was just rebelling… I always regretted not putting it out”: Which '90s pop princess recorded a grunge album that was never released?

It was under the band name ‘Chick’

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“I remember when I first heard it. Big deal for me – I loved it immediately. It’s all over Rosanna, all over Africa”: Toto’s Steve Porcaro names his Top 5 synths

“How much is it worth? Ha! Don’t even ask!”

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“Is this the best guitar I’ve ever played? Including the ones in your museum? I believe so”: Mikael Åkerfeldt has played Kurt Cobain’s 1953 D-18 ‘Grandpa’ and 19th-century holy grail acoustics but says his Martin OM signature beats the lot of them

Limited to 74 instruments worldwide, the Opeth frontman's signature model has a truly exquisite three-piece back of Guatemalan rosewood with an East Indian rosewood wedge

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“When Ronnie sang about Neil Young in that song, that was kind of a joke lyric about him. We loved Neil Young!”: The true story of Lynyrd Skynyrd’s Sweet Home Alabama

"Neil wanted to play the song with us!"

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Tame Impala's synth company announces worldwide release date for Orchid and unveils companion plugin

Telepathic Instruments' chord-generating mini-synth will ship on Friday 10 October

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