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"I remember him coughing and spitting up blood, probably from smoking too many cigarettes. But in my mind, Jim was indestructible": Robby Krieger looks back on the making of The Doors' LA Woman

Classic interview: Revisiting a 2012 chat on the album where The Doors produced themselves for the first time and Jim Morrison's health decline became clear – "It was a stressful time"

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“We were just kids playing together and then he built the song around that”: Joe Satriani says Steve Vai wrote a track for the Satch/Vai album featuring restored audio of the pair jamming as teenagers

Back in the day, when Satch was teaching Vai, they recorded 20 minutes of “brutal” jamming on a reel-to-reel, and Vai has put it to good use for the pair's first studio recording together

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The best new acoustic guitars coming our way in 2024

GEAR EXPO 2024: Acoustics for every budget – small and (incredibly) large – as we reveal the all-new arrivals for the year ahead

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“I want people to get creative with this guitar… I just hope it inspires others to write more songs”: Orangewood Guitars teams up with Alejandro Aranda for the Pomona Live signature acoustic

Orangewood's first-ever signature collaboration finds the artist formerly known as Scarypoolparty spec'ing up a handsome dreadnought with an LR Baggs pickup for just $495

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“A monumental leap forward in sampling technology”: MPC Stems, Akai Pro’s new audio extraction technology, is now available in the MPC Desktop Software, but you'll have to wait for standalone operation

Paid-for upgrade gives MPC users an easy way of breaking music apart

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"You don't need to know many scales to play guitar solos – but you do need to know this one": We can show you the minor pentatonic with just three chord shapes

Learning guitar scales doesn't have to be hard and our lesson proves it

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As easy as MPC: Blipblox myTRACKS is a simplified groovebox for kids (and big kids, too)

Aimed at children as young as three years old, myTRACKS has been "crafted to eliminate complexity and maximize fun"

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“It’s an exciting guitar and it has stood the test of time”: Gibson restores the Everly Brothers J-180 signature acoustic to its core Custom Shop lineup

Buy, buy love! Buy, buy happiness! These high-end stunners have the double moustache pickguards, LR Baggs electronics, and have got some songs in 'em for sure

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How to use sidechain compression to enhance your mix

Sidechain compression is an excellent mixing tool and in this tutorial we pick apart this essential process

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"I know that is a 25-year-old's spirit just burning – like a Chevy engine": The story of The Gaslight Anthem's classic song, The '59 Sound

Brian Fallon on the sound and spirit of his greatest song to date

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“The most advanced professional monitors in their class”: KRK’s new Rokit Generation Five studio monitors have dedicated modes for mixing, creating and midrange focus

The latest version of the famous yellow-coned speaker is here

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Google's AI-powered Instrument Playground lets you play and sample over 100 instruments from across the globe: "Have you ever played the Dizi from China?"

Initially launched in December, the browser-based tool is now available in the UK

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“It’s the perfect pick for those desiring innovative features in a light, ergonomic guitar”: Enya Music’s Nova Go Sonic is a single-cut smart guitar with a carbon fibre build and 10W built-in speaker

The Nova Go Sonic is an all-in-one smart guitar with dual humbuckers, onboard effects, and outputs for recording on the go, and of course the ultimate onboard output – a speaker

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How does reverb actually work?: "Reverb gives us a mainline into our audience’s subconscious, allowing us to influence their aural experience at a subliminal level"

Reverb has been relied on for its evocative sonic character ever since the first homo sapien warbled expletives into a dark cave. The transformative power of space remains a vital mix ingredient...

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How to choose the right piano sound for your track

GEAR EXPO 2024: All pianos are the same, right? Wrong. There’s a ton of variety in brands and models, and it pays to know how they differ

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"Hands down the best Amiga emulation I've ever used!": This old-school sampling plugin gets you the retro sound of the Commodore Amiga for only £10

PotenzaDSP's Amigo Sampler nails the "authentic crunch" of the Amiga and offers classic Akai-style time-stretching too

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The 15 most exciting new hardware synths of 2024: analogue and digital instruments from Korg, Behringer and more

GEAR EXPO 2024: The must-have new monster synths you need to audition this year

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“No previous experience required”: Roland puts its ZEN-Core synth engine into the beginner-friendly GO:KEYS 3 and 5 “music creation” keyboards

High-quality soundsets meet auto-accompaniment features

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'The final piece of the puzzle for many guitarists is targeting the best notes at the right moment': How to play better guitar solos by incorporating the blues

Everything you need to improve

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"I like your version better than ours!": Acoustic fingerstyle guitarist covers Toto's Rosanna and wows Steve Lukather

Casper Esmann's version also features a candidate for most impressive capo slide of 2024!

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"Capable of handling home recording duties and producing good-quality audio from a variety of sources": Behringer UMC22 review

This audio interface is priced ridiculously low, but does it produce high-quality audio? We got hands-on to find out

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"I remember saying to Eric, 'I'm going to play him off the stage one day'. But what Eric did was even more peculiar, he said, 'Well, I'm going to pretend that I am Jimi Hendrix!'": Pete Townshend looks back in this classic 1990 guitar interview

"The thing that really stunned Eric and me was the way he took what we did and made it better"

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“Easy to use but with enough flair and innovation within to elevate it above its competition”: Rode Rodecaster Duo review

All-in-one podcast production device brings a dash of colour to small-scale setups

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How to design a filter-thumping bass patch

Following our deep-dive into the oscillator section of BazilleCM, we follow the signal flow to create a beastly bass sound

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"Platforms don't need to be complex, or for someone to be hoovering up that much of the income": Wavetick on their new artist and producer-focused sample marketplace

Promising an artist-focused service that gives musicians, beatmakers and producers a free marketplace to trade their sonic wares, Wavetick aims to disrupt the current sample website paradigm in the creator’s favour. Let’s find out more…

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