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"As a proof-of-concept, it’s hard to fault, even if we’d need to sell some organs to buy one": DWe review

Forget your drum module - DW’s jumping head-first towards the deep end of computer-based drum sounds, and its acoustic-electronic hardware is our life raft of familiarity. Let’s hope it’s not a washout…

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Behringer says that it plans to “turn the synth world upside down” with a desktop version of its Oberheim-inspired UB-Xa

Downsized UB-Xa D ditches the 61-note keyboard

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Juno Reactor's Ben Watkins on the 1997 Goa trance classic Bible of Dreams: "What really gave the album its sound was the Raindirk Symphony desk. It was like another member of the band… suddenly we had a three-dimensional sound in the studio"

How the fusion of multiple genres and cultures helped inspire Juno Reactor's influential fourth album

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Watch Slash cover Howlin’ Wolf’s Killing Floor on first single from new blues album, with AC/DC’s Brian Johnson on vocals, Aerosmith’s Steven Tyler on harmonica

Orgy Of The Damned finds the GNR guitarist tackling blues standards with an all-star cast of vocalists – watch Slash rock a Bigsby-equipped ES-335 in the video for Killing Floor now

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“I just got some prototypes in different colours… It sounds really good”: Foo Fighters guitarist Chris Shiflett has a new signature Telecaster incoming – here’s everything we know about it so far

The prototype has already taken flight on stage with the Foo Fighters, and if it's sounding good, well, it might not be too long before we see it

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“I didn’t think I was really producing anything because I was writing and singing over drum ‘n’ bass beats”: PinkPantheress says she never thought she'd be recognised as a producer and that “even now, people don’t want to take my music seriously”

“As a woman of colour in electronic music, specifically two-step drum ‘n’ bass, it has taken a lot in the genre to be recognised on a wider scale"

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“There were so many demos that sounded like major songs, but that one was near the top of the list": The making of the 1995 Radiohead classic that became one of their all-time greatest anthems

Producer John Leckie: "It sounded instantly like a big track"

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Julia Holter on the Yamaha CS-60, Kate Bush and the parallels between composition and production: "So much of production is thinking about organising sounds in a similar way to on a sheet of music"

The composer-producer’s new album Something In The Room She Moves continues her quest to distil feelings we never knew had a name

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“When people went in to look at the gear they went in on jet skis… So many people lost their guitars”: Peter Frampton says he lost 44 guitars in the 2010 Nashville flood

One of the guitars to survive the flood was Frampton's Epiphone Texan that he famously used to write Show Me The Way and Baby, I Love Your Way both on the same day

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Jack Antonoff jams with Zane Lowe on his analogue synths, and says he doesn’t know where the “spark” he has with Taylor Swift and Lana Del Rey comes from

“We have all the best gear in the world, but it’s basically an apartment,” Antonoff says of his room at Electric Lady Studios

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“This pedal isn’t just a piece of gear; it’s a journey into the soul of timeless studio tones”: Wampler unveils the Ego 76, a feature-packed compressor inspired by the legendary 1176 Peak Limiter

Studio-quality compression for your pedalboard, with ample tools for shaping your guitar's dynamics and sweetening its tone

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Death By Audio resurrects the Octave Clang, with the new and improved V2 offering “discordant ringing drones, visceral octave scrapes, and ground-shaking distortion”

The gnarly octave fuzz that's found its way onto the pedalboards of Kevin Shields and Joanne Shaw Taylor now comes a footswitchable octave and a “supercharged” circuit…

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How Daphne Oram's Oramics machine paved the way for the modern DAW: "I want machines and computers to be an extension of the arm of the composer"

Get acquainted with the work of pioneering composer and electronic musician Daphne Oram, co-founder of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop

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“Accurate and very usable results in all stylistic scenarios”: Mastering the Mix RESO review

If pesky frequency spikes are troubling your instrument channels and mixes, maybe it’s time to find some RESOlution

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"The best value expandable pedal power supply out there right now": Harley Benton PowerPlant ISO-1AC Pro Modular review

Handling high-draw pedals for less money

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“We recorded that song in a toilet with quite a cheap microphone, a Shure SM58”: Phil Oakey lifts the lid on the birth of The Human League’s Don’t You Want Me

In 1981, the band were enjoying their first flush of commercial success

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“Holy sh*t, that's good!”: Foo Fighters’ Chris Shiflett on replacing his amps with the Quad Cortex for his solo tour – plus, the lowdown on the other essentials in his current rig

We caught up with Chris just before he embarks on his UK tour to talk about everything from why he thinks the Les Paul is a great country guitar to his love of the Explorer and what fans can expect from his latest Fender signature model

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"For me it was either the beginning of the beginning or the beginning of the end": the night Eric Clapton guested with Joe Bonamassa at the Royal Albert Hall and changed his career

"I can never repay him for what he did because he came out and did something that turned my career around"

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SampleRadar: 475 drum 'n' bass essentials samples

Loops, one-shots, FX and airhorns ideally suited for use in D'n'B productions

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Paranoid London: "Our 808 is completely different to everybody else’s in the world. The snare and kick are ridiculous. When we had it fixed they opened it up and said someone had done a load of weird stuff - instead of using glue they’d used hairspray"

Quinn Whalley of the UK acid duo on studio sessions and capturing the magic of analogue gear

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"For the price, it’s almost a no-brainer": sE Electronics Neom USB review

Does sE Electronics’ debut in the crowded USB microphone field hit the mark?

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Anemond's Factoid 2 is an experimental sampler plugin that uses machine learning to "decompose", remix and manipulate sounds

Split your audio up into a set of "temporal and spectral components" that can be remixed, randomized or shifted in time to create new ideas

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Steely Dan pianist and keyboard player Jim Beard has died, aged 63: “He was the glue and such a great presence on so many projects,” says drummer Peter Erskine

Beard also worked with Wayne Shorter, John Mayer and John McLaughlin

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Ben Frost on working with Steve Albini: "As a recording engineer, he’s the equivalent of a war photographer – he’s not composing images and dictating proportions, he’s documenting what’s occurring in a space"

On Scope Neglect, Ben Frost extends his guitar obsession by re-engineering our perception of metal music

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Gibson has filmed an Adam Jones Tool guitar lesson – and it's exceptionally good

A great dissection of a special guitarist's techniques

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