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“Each guitar includes a 40th-anniversary certificate hand-signed byPaul Reed Smith”: PRS swaps maple for mango to give its flagship Custom 24 an eye-popping satin nitro makeover

The Mango tops on the Custom 24 Satin are exquisite, but they’re only making 500 of ‘em

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"It is not a polite instrument – nor is it clean, safe, or obvious": Cherry Audio revives the cult classic Crumar Spirit in its latest plugin

That's the Spirit

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“Sometimes swinging all the elements of the drums doesn't make it groove better”: Breakout producer Silva Bumpa on the secret to creating sub bass and UKG rhythms

The fast rising producer reveals his top tools and techniques in our new video interview

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“Thom sat down and played it in three takes, then just burst into tears afterwards”: How Jeff Buckley saved Radiohead’s Fake Plastic Trees

It was the song Thom Yorke just couldn't get right, but a stellar Jeff Buckley gig unlocked the missing ingredient

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“The place went wild, and after 4 minutes and 27 seconds of what sounded like Justin Bieber, I found out the worst news imaginable”: EDM DJ Gryffin on the moment he learned that he’d been duped into performing with a Justin Bieber impersonator

Dylan Desclos managed to trick his way into The Wynn nightclub in Las Vegas and then got on stage

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“This has been through thick and thin… one of our crew fell on a stair, the whole neck snapped right off”: Swedish heavyweights Orbit Culture show us their ESP guitars – and tell us why the EverTune bridge was a game-changer

Richard Hansson and Niklas Karlsson on why passive humbuckers are better for downtuned riffs, James Hetfield's influence, and why baritones and extended range guitars are too much guitar

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“I was playing the Fender Strat that Jimi Hendrix gave me. We wound up plugging the guitar straight into the board. That’s why it’s such a clean tone on that track”: Billy Gibbons on the making of ZZ Top's greatest blues song

"For some reason the guitar wasn’t working through the amp," Gibbons recalled

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“I guess I’m buying a new Gibson”: Cesar Gueikian teases Custom Shop replica of Marty McFly’s “1955” ES-345 – but hunt goes on for original Back To The Future guitar

And could there be an Epiphone version too?

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“It was my bad… crossed wires”: Calvin Harris shuts down talk of a feud with Miley Cyrus after teasing a new song that previously had her vocals on it

Ocean is now being sung by Jessie Reyez, it would seem

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“They all thought it was a bonkers idea but it worked. It was already a great song, but that one little thing made it different”: How the Eagles made somebody else’s song their own – and defined the sound of country rock

"Those open chords felt like an announcement: ‘And now... the Eagles!’”

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“It’s disorienting, impractical and slightly dystopian – but it's like nothing I’ve ever done before”: I tried making music in VR and I’m never going back

Virtual reality has never been more accessible, more versatile, or more deserving of a place in your set-up

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“After five minutes, I was like, can I just go back to the dressing room? My legs had turned to jelly”: Noel Gallagher on 'grossly underestimating' the band's tour, the gig he's most looking forward to playing and, yes, what he thinks of Liam now

“It’s great just to be back with Bonehead and Liam and just be doing it again"

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“Fender Designed alnico pickups, vintage-tinted gloss neck finishes, and nickel-plated hardware for an authentic old-school vibe”: Squier channels the Fender archive for 10 stunning yet affordable Classic Vibe electric and bass guitars

You know the drill, people... we've got Strats, Teles, a Jazzmaster and a Duo-Sonic, and refreshed basses in Squier's evergreen vintage-inspired range

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Kylie Minogue’s Tension tour keyboard player reveals the compact synth she uses to create those big disco sounds

Hazel Mills runs her UDO Super 6 through a couple of pedals and Apple MainStage

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"This can't be serious": Billboard reveals the top producers of the 21st century so far – and people aren't happy

Max Martin unsurprisingly snags the top spot, but the absence of greats such as Pharrell Williams – and the inclusion of artists such as Beyoncé and Taylor Swift – has sparked debate

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“I said, ‘It’s really beautiful – why would you say it’s not for the Chili Peppers?’ And he said, ‘That’s not what we do’”: How the Red Hot Chili Peppers broke new ground to create their life-changing hit

One of the greatest rock ballads ever recorded

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“For players who employ a twin tube-amp setup for their tones, the Tube Head Switch is indispensable”: Harley Benton rolls out affordable solution for players with two tube amps sharing same speaker cabinet

The Tube Head Switch features onboard safety load management and has a buffered instrument input and direct input for preamps and other line-level devices, and it's cheap

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“I of course fully endorse ANY mods done to any of my designs, let alone from the great Hammett”: Kirk Hammett orders up custom Thinline version of Jack White’s Fender Triplecaster – and gets one for White, too

Jack White's been giving out his Triplecaster to all and sundry and now Hammett returns the favour, with a "cool mod" that White hopes will duly upset Telecaster purists

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“I don’t have many guitar players’ albums on my iPhone, but I can tell you this – Jeff is there”: John McLaughlin discusses the magic of Jeff Beck – and names his favourite underrated guitarist

"His tone was like butter," McLaughlin says of his late friend

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“An erratic semantic output”: Trump’s speech patterns become avant-garde compositions in a new work by British musician Martin Gordon

The former Sparks bassist claims to have taken inspiration from medieval alchemy

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BBC Ozzy Osbourne documentary mysteriously moved from tonight’s schedules

Doc will show that “Iron Man wasn't really made of iron"

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"No strings attached": The Crow Hill Company releases Lo-Fi Strings, a free tape-treated string library with a warm and nostalgic sound

Another instalment in Crow Hill's ongoing Vaults series, Lo-Fi Strings brings the beloved sonic imperfections of tape recording into the orchestral world

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“I’m doing what I love doing the most: Being in front of an audience. A live audience, not a television audience”: Chubby Checker’s unusual reason for skipping his Hall Of Fame induction

It’s to show he’s “alive and well”, apparently

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WoO.1 is a pocket-sized sampler designed for endless on-the-go looping

New brand Wunderkammer is set to launch the pint-sized looper and sampler via Kickstarter imminently

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“It started off sounding a bit like Prince. I wanted to hear something in my mix so I cut the snare and it changed the whole mood of the track": How George Michael accidentally created the ‘80s smash that inspired Taylor Swift on The Life of a Showgirl

“It ended up, in my mind, being the most original-sounding thing on the album,” he later said

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