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“There's real springs inside the oversized enclosure. Confirm it by giving the unit a gentle kick!”: Crazy Tube Circuits White Whale Junior review

There's nothing like the real deal. How does CTC's micro spring reverb stack up?

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Where's your head at? It's MusicRadar's Quiz of the Week #18!

Test your brains with our round-up of this week's hottest music news

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“Analogue is better than digital, Behringer gear is garbage and your cheap-ass monitors are ruining your mixes”: 10 of the most enduring music tech myths busted

It's time to separate fact from fiction. We demolish ten hot takes persistently spouted by purists, gatekeepers and overzealous Redditors

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“I did have a couple of people saying, 'You're being so obsessive.’ But it had lost the magic, and so he said, 'Do you know what to do?’ And I said ‘I do’”: How going back to her Korg M1 demo helped Donna Lewis to create one of the biggest US hits of 1996

“I remember trying to rewrite the chorus because it sounded too much like a nursery rhyme. But when I did, it didn’t work, so I kept it the same"

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“I guess it’s a real summer song – as soon as you play it, you know it’s going to kick off”: Ash’s Tim Wheeler tells us about the making of their most beloved song

Ash’s Tim Wheeler remembers the creation of the band’s most popular song - written while they were still at school!

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“She was a bit nervous at first. She just sat down and she sang. I directed her. I wanted her to improvise”: How Lana Del Rey collaborated with movie maker Baz Luhrmann to create one of her most hauntingly beautiful songs

The director said her song was perfect – although his first choice had been Prince

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“James’s rhythm parts are insane. His right hand looks like it's not even moving – It's one of the most aggressive, precise things you've ever heard in your life”: Andrew Scheps on the complex legacy of Metallica’s Death Magnetic

In a lengthy conversation MusicRadar had with the pre-eminent mix master, Scheps remembered working with the metal gods on that controversially loud ninth album

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“An excellent example ofthe genre’s shifting atmospheric soundscapes”: EarthQuaker Devices Towers review

EarthQuaker Devices’ latest pedal offers three filter modes toturn stereo reverb into meandering, hazy soundscapes

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“My hands just wouldn’t work. There was no way I could play the guitar. It was pretty scary”: Rockabilly icon Brian Setzer on his recovery from the autoimmune condition that stopped him playing guitar

The Stray Cats frontman says he is “98 per cent” recovered but is playing as good as he ever did

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“I know I'm not supposed to use these foot pedals like this but it works”: Ariana Grande’s live looping moment on her Eternal Sunshine tour showcases a skill that she’s been honing for 20 years

A longtime fan of the Boss RC Loop Stations, she was uploading live looped performance videos as early as 2007

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Someone put a chiptune synth and 16-step sequencer in a watch - and it looks as bonkers as it sounds

Is this retro-styled DIY build the world's first wrist-worn sequencer?

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“Lemme guess, you got Che Guevara and Malcolm X on your shelf, maybe even Fred Hampton, but at the end of the day you get in the Lamborghini and put your kids in private school”: Charlie Crokett gets personal in playground tussle with Jack White

Argument broke out over ‘Satanic’ support act

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A dream machine for Gretsch superfans, this limited run Penguin is refreshed in Pale Blue Pearl with Bigsby and Ful-Fidelity FilterTrons – and it is one sweet songbird

A Professional Series Penguin for those serious about Gretsch sounds with a few bucks to spare on a big budget bird

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“People look down on stuff that sells. What do you call that? Downward snobbery I guess”: Revisiting our classic interview with the legendary Lemmy

Back in 2012 we spoke to the late Motörhead mainman about his other great passion - rockabilly

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“This is a difficult guitar to put a review score on”: Harley Benton Fusion-T II HH RW HT PM review

Harley Benton doubles down as one of the industry’s leading affordable brands with a well-appointed player

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“We liked the sound of what Giorgio was doing with I Feel Love. We thought the marriage of electronics with what we were doing would be something really fresh and special”: Russell Mael on how Sparks went beyond pop to create their own sonic universe

With the dynamic duo's concert album Live On The Moon out now, Mael re-enters Earth's orbit to explain why Sparks were never going to give us the same thing twice

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“It makes your massive amp sound tiny, and way better, and it just sounds sick”: Stu Mackenzie and Jam Pedals team up to bring you the secret behind his King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard tone

The Tiny Amp Destroyer has two gain stages plus a treble booster and brings you the unruly and wild gain sounds of Mackenzie's "Cash Converters" small-amp setup

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Minimal Audio's Lucid is a granular powerhouse with scale locking, deep modulation and much more

This "next-generation" granular effect combines a flexible granular engine with per-grain tuning, filtering, panning and delay, alongside a host of additional effects

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“Steven started singing, ‘Cruisin’ for the ladies.’ I said, ‘That’s really bad. I don’t think Van Halen would put that on the B-side of their worst record’”: When Aerosmith got schooled by hit songwriter Desmond Child

His tough-talking approach helped create one of the band’s biggest hits

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Brandon Flowers says that every major label passed on Mr Brightside: "They would say, ‘When did you record this song again? What producer did you bring in?’ And it's like, ‘No, that's the same song. It's exactly the same recording that you heard before'”

Brandon Flowers says that every major label initially said no to Mr Brightside

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“People often crack jokes about that album. We had that dreadful picture on the cover with the three of us looking like the Bee Gees, and I’m thinking, ‘This is wrong’”: Carl Palmer on the disastrous album that led ELP to break up

Keith Emerson called it “an embarrassment against everything I’ve worked for”

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“There's not a night that passes when that doesn't still sting”: When Skrillex shared with us his anger at having four years of his work stolen

Back in 2012 Skrillex was dubstep’s reigning king, now held in high esteem as an EDM legend, we look back on a classic conversation he had with MusicRadar

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“We're encouraged by the impact these measures are having”: McDonalds branch gets rid of teenage trouble by playing classical music

Same method has been used in Liverpool, Wrexham and Barrow in Furness

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Frank Beard, ZZ Top drummer, dies aged 77: "I made him jam for eight hours straight until his tongue just fell out. By the time we stopped, we both knew we had a band"

Billy Gibbons hails "great friend and collaborator"

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Nearly 40% of music released last month used AI

Almost a quarter was fully AI generated

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