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"It puts ease-of-use, speed and versatility ahead of sound design depth – at least when it comes to the hardware": Arturia AstroLab review

Those hoping for the full V Collection experience in hardware form might be disappointed. But, as we discover, AstroLab’s simplicity is its biggest selling point

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This $10 plugin could make your guitars sound straight off Metallica's Black Album: "Once an industry secret, now a plugin"

The Wow Thing recreates a quirky effects box favoured by producer Randy Staub and used on Metallica's iconic self-titled record

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“I chose the wrong key”: Mark Knopfler reveals the Dire Straits song that “didn’t come out the way I wanted”

He’s previously referred to its lengthy outro as “pointless”

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The ultimate guide to Eurorack percussion: "Modular synthesis opens up a world of sound design that is hard to find anywhere else"

Master your modular percussion patches

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Behringer releases a free Vintage synth plugin, but you might struggle to download it

It’s yours for nothing… if the page you’re looking for can ever be found

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"It's faded, I f**king dropped a cigarette on it... I named it when I was drunk but I don't remember what the catalyst for that was!": Gibson reveals the Slash “Jessica” Les Paul Standard

Slash's go-to live weapon gets a faithful repro outing

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'At his musical core, John Lennon had a wonderful way with chords': Here are 4 of his Beatles voicings and guitar rhythm ideas to inspire you

All my strumming, I will send to you

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"Songwriting for me, at the time of Rubber Soul, was a bit frightening because John and Paul had been writing since they were three years old": How The Beatles raised their game in 1965 to create a masterpiece that "broke everything open"

The Beatles' sixth album Rubber Soul was a colossal creative leap and marked the point at which albums began to be viewed as works of real artistic merit

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“A well made budget headphone that can handle both mixing and recording duties”: the t.bone HD 815 review

Headphones designed for both recording and mixing? We're intrigued

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“Not doing singles”: Billie Eilish announces that her third album, Hit Me Hard And Soft, will be released on 17 May, and teases a journey "through a vast and expansive audio landscape”

All physical and digital versions of the record will have the same tracklisting in a bid to reduce waste

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Arturia teases mysterious extraterrestrial announcement to be revealed at livestream event: "25 years, and beyond"

"A new era awaits, and you're invited to witness its dawn"

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"In the late ’90s and early ’00s equipment was so fetishised. I’ve been in fancy studios that have all these iconic machines which are like museum pieces now, but they’re constantly breaking": Naum Gabo on 20 years of progress

Two decades after first starting, Jonnie Wilkes and James Savage finally release their debut Naum Gabo LP, F. Lux. Danny Turner learns more

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"We always recorded with Michael in the dark - he hated light": Engineer Bruce Swedien on the making of Michael Jackson's Thriller, track by track

We get a behind-the-scenes look at the recording of the biggest-selling album of all time

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Master 6 rhythm guitar styles inspired by AC/DC, Metallica, The Who, Pantera, Guns N' Roses and Iron Maiden

Develop your pick hand technique with this look at some of rock and metal’s greatest players

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“A new standard in AI music”: Soundation’s Gennie brings automatic text-to-audio sample generation to its online DAW

A Gennie for your thoughts?

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'The 29 songs he recorded (plus 12 alternate takes) show a musician who was technically and stylistically ahead of many of his peers': 5 ways to play like Robert Johnson without going down to the crossroads to make a deal with the devil

Unpicking the fingerstyle of the most influential blues guitarist

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"He showed me some things that Charlie Patton and Robert Johnson had taught him – he knew those people": Hubert Sumlin, Howlin' Wolf and their legendary blues legacy

Legendary Howlin' Wolf guitar sideman on his hard blues road

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“A large nearfield with great balance and excellent cohesive imaging”: PreSonus Eris Pro 8 review

Well designed coaxial monitors can offer substantial sonic benefits. We hook one up

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“That was just the way it was at that point because Ahmet Ertegun was more or less in love with Eric. He thought Eric should be the frontman”: Cream and the trouble with Strange Brew

The classic opener to Disraeli Gears was never a favourite of Cream's members, and this is why

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'Many classic songs use chords that sit outside of the regular shapes that we learn in the early stages of playing': 9 iconic guitar chords from classic songs and how to play them

From The Beatles to Bond, Mr Britherside to Hendrix and The Police – these are historic chords

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"I think it’s time to make a defiant rock record": Noel Gallagher says he's scrapped his planned acoustic album but he's already got the cover art and title for the next one

"Acoustic tunes tend to be quite down"

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'Certain chord progressions have been used thousands of times throughout the history of recorded music, so there’s no reason you shouldn’t use these three popular examples': Kickstart your songwriting today

Try these rock, '50s pop and minor blues chord progressions

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“A powerful mix tool that does a lot to justify its ‘pro’ price point”: Oeksound Bloom review

Following the widely-loved Soothe, we ask if Oeksound’s latest might become another must-have

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5 pieces of '90s studio gear that we need back right now: "Making music in the '90s, you needed an awful lot of awfully average music gear, a lot of space and a vivid imagination"

1990s music gear might be a bit rubbish compared to today's, but its genius was in its limitations…

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Is Zildjian about to reissue its Z Series? This not-so-covert teaser video certainly suggests so

Punk, rock and metal fans will be familiar with that star-shaped hammer mark…

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