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“Then his mic fails and Pete Townshend grabs me from one side and says, ‘Let’s help him'. David Bowie grabs me from the other, and with Alison we went out to sing along": Bob Geldof on how Paul McCartney’s Live Aid performance was almost a disaster

“He was driving up from Sussex, listening to U2 on the radio, and they were so good, he was getting really nervous,” remembers Geldof

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“I spent six months listening only to AC/DC – and it changed my entire approach to songwriting”: How Metallica embraced simplicity – and Mötley Crüe's producer – to create their 30 million selling monster hit

Hiring Bob Rock was one of the smartest moves they ever made

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How to emulate a classic analogue recording system entirely with plugins

It’s entirely likely that you could recreate many legacy analogue set-ups with just a few chained plugins. Here, we’ll show you how to get started

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"This is exactly what artists have been worried about – it's theft dressed up as competition": Who is behind The Velvet Sundown, the AI-generated band that blew up the internet?

A 'spokesperson' for The Velvet Sundown that gave a statement to Rolling Stone earlier this week has now revealed that he's not affiliated with group

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"90% of what I do is done on one software synth": Hans Zimmer on the synth plugin that he's been working with for years - and still hasn't run out of ideas

Zimmer digs deep into his creative process in this interview with Rick Beato

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How to use reverb to build impressive-sounding filters, reverses, risers and pads

Create your own reverb effects with our step-by-step tutorial

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“I have to say it was the most bizarre musical experience I think I’ve had”: Queens Of The Stone Age’s Troy Van Leeuwen on what it was like to play for the “bones of six million people” in the Catacombs of Paris

Alive in the Catacombs presents a set of stripped-down QOTSA classics on acoustic for a unique concert film/EP

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How Cherry Audio recreated the sound of the world's first commercial polysynth in software: “There may be fewer than six working Novachords on the planet”

We caught up with Cherry Audio's CTO Dan Goldstein to find out more about how it crafted a plugin emulation of a super-rare proto-synth from 1939

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“The Eagles were in the same studio, in the room next to us. They had to pack up and go because we were too loud!”: The highs and lows of Black Sabbath in the ’70s - by Tony Iommi

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Want to learn to play Wonderwall on the guitar? As the start of the Oasis reunion tour approaches, you’re not the only one…

By now, you should’ve somehow realised that it’s in F# minor

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“The biggest driver right now is people wanting everything fast”: Predicting the future evolution of plugin design

It's out with hardware replication and in with simplification, with a considerable heap of AI on the side - we ask the experts to foresee the plugin experience of tomorrow

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"I can't help but smile when using a good wah, and the Vox V863-CA certainly qualifies as more than just a good one": Vox V863-CA Semi Auto Wah review

Featuring 3 modes and both manual and automatic control, Vox has put together a versatile wah to help get the funk out

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“That’s not how we were. We would never do that”: Ringo has put his foot down over parts of the Beatles biopics

Plus the drummer says he still feels like a young man

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“It’s a circle of freaks and I don’t want to be involved”: How the Oasis vs Blur chart battle marked Britpop's cultural peak, and the beginning of its end

1995’s chart battle between Oasis and Blur cemented the two bands as Britpop’s warring kings, but creatively, the movement was unravelling

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“It’s marketing. It’s trolling”: AI band The Velvet Sundown are an ‘art hoax’, confirms 'spokesman'

But does it matter?

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"For real-time plugins, it’s very hard to do something effective with AI. It’s very good at big brush things”: Leapwing Audio on their stable of forensic mix plugins

Leapwing's intuitive, incisive plugins let users perform forensic mix surgery with ease and emulate the tones of iconic producers.

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“Years of research, development and deep love of FM synthesis has gone into picking just the right balance of flexibility and simplicity”: Pivot is a ‘no-nonsense’ FM synth plugin from the designer behind one of our favourite hardware instruments

With three operators, no algorithms and a morphing filter, Pivot aims to make FM user-friendly – and you can try a Lite version for free

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“Almost everyone thinks it’s strings”: Lorde unmasks the unusual guitar part on her new album that was created using a classic ‘90s Roland V-Guitar processor that’s now “insanely expensive” on the second-hand market

Plus, the Teenage Engineering OP-1 patch that “shows up everywhere” on the record

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“I know there’s going to be at least one more gig - I'm not looking forward to putting the setlist together”: Joe Perry is convinced his band will play again, despite retirement from touring

He suggests that Steven Tyler would be able to take part

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“We wrote it in a farmyard in France. We’d never heard of ‘disco music’ at the time. We were singing about the state of the times, and the human condition”: How the Bee Gees channelled angst and despair to create the greatest dancefloor-filler of all time

Ah, ah, ah, ah...

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“If your flanger is too harsh, try a chorus - if it's too subtle, try a phaser”: How modulation effects work and how to use them

Phasing and flanging are often confused. We ask why - and demystify!

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“How is a clear CD even possible? The data is written on the silver part?”: It’s clear to see that Lorde’s see-through Virgin CD doesn’t play in most CD players

Fans take to social media to share a string of disappointing ‘No Disc’ errors after giving Lorde's latest a spin

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"It’s simple enough to create the perfect hard-tuned and harmonised effects within our DAW, providing you have the right software": How to harness hard-tuned vocals

That hard-tuned, robot-like sound, first popularised by Cher, has now become something of a staple in modern pop

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“Bound to capture djent and thall-loving audiences because of the fine balance of brutality, customisation, and ease-of-use”: Atlas DSP – Your Last Steps review

The new kid on the block delivers its first hard-hitting amp sim, which is tailor-made for brutal noise making and modern metal grit – just don’t call it the blues

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5 innovative synth plugins daring to do things differently

Unconventional and creatively inspiring, these soft synths are pushing synthesis in bold new directions

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