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Steve Albini weighs in on amp modelling and effects pedals: "I know some old school guys are like, ‘Plug the guitar straight into the amp, and if you can’t get it done with that, you’re not a real musician,’ or whatever. That’s horses***"

He also names the young player who he believes uses pedals in an especially creative way

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Live sound and Talk Box pioneer Bob Heil has died, aged 83: “I can never thank him enough,” says Peter Frampton

Audio industry legend worked with the Grateful Dead, The Who and many others

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"I experimented with that technique because I saw everybody else doing it, but I just never got good results with it": Steve Albini explains why he decided to break from traditional speaker miking methods in the recording studio

"If the microphone is backed off more like 12 to 14 inches, then you get much more of an overall picture of the sound of the cabinet"

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“Why you typically don’t lead a six-piece band with an acoustic guitar is because you can’t be heard! I am shocked that we are able to pull that one off”: Julian Lage on the electric shuffles and engineering miracles behind his most daring album yet

The jazz guitar maestro shares the secrets to guitar phrasing and discusses the irrational melodies and Eno-inspired “sound forward” approach behind his new album, Speak To Me

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Does your guitar sound out of tune, even though you just tuned it? You might need to make these extra adjustments

A Master Luthier shows you how to set your intonation

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Apple’s new MacBook Air has an M3 chip and can drive two external displays, making it suitable for use in a multi-monitor music production setup

Meet “the best consumer laptop for AI”

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Guitarist covers The Doors, Zeppelin, Clapton, Beatles, Hendrix and more in the style of Dire Straits, sounds like long-lost Mark Knopfler demos

Laszlo Buring plays it Straits

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“A rugged mic set that incorporates - and builds on - some of our favourite design points from popular drum mics, as well as bringing its own identity”: Lewitt Beat Kit Pro review

Capturing a drum kit? Lewitt’s Beat Kit Pro is designed to be a one-stop shop for your mic locker

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"If you’re hoping to dial in the same kind of tones as the world’s biggest metal band and wield a guitar that will turn heads wherever you may roam, look no further": ESP LTD Vulture James Hetfield Signature review

Whether you want to jump in the fire or ride the lightning, this latest ESP LTD signature for the Metallica frontman will have you covered…

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"It was a fair fight that I got thrown out of the band for, because Moon came for me with a tambourine": When Roger Daltrey was fired from The Who at the worst possible time in 1965

"When they got on amphetamines the music just turned to a load of crap," reflected the singer

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"Brit was Blackberry Smoke’s True North, the compass that instituted the ideology that will continue to guide this band": Blackberry Smoke drummer Brit Turner dies, aged 57

Atlanta stalwart's death following cancer battle confirmed by band

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“A generous update stuffed with ideas and real potential”: Ableton Live 12 Suite review

UPDATED: includes a first look at the new 12.1 update. Still thinking about upgrading?

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James Blake on the music industry's broken economics: "The brainwashing worked and now people think that music is free"

The British artist delivered a searing assessment of the impact of Tiktok on the industry's economic model over the weekend: "If we want quality music somebody is gonna have to pay for it"

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‘Synth map of the world’ reveals that Roland and Behringer dominate other brands when it comes to Google searches

Roland is number one in 73 countries, while Behringer leads the way in 33

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“A belter of a multi-effects module, with all the right options in the right places”: Endorphin.es Ghost review

We discover a near-perfect multi-effect, created in collaboration with musician and YouTuber Andrew Huang

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Listen to an incredible remake of Daft Punk's Face to Face made with modern samples from Red Hot Chili Peppers, Radiohead and Lady Gaga: "What a love letter to sampling"

"Face to Face samples 20 different songs from 1968-1982, but what if the song used samples coming from a much later time range of thirty years later?"

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Classic interview - Giorgio Moroder: “If you want to make a good dance song, you still need the 303, an analogue drum machine and a Minimoog”

TB-303 Day special: “The only way to get futuristic sounds was to use synthesizers”

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The producer's guide to the Roland TB-303 (and its clones)

TB-303 Day special: Iconic and influential, but notoriously awkward to program. Let’s explore the ins and outs of coaxing acid lines from a 303 – whether real, cloned or emulated

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"Fine for off-the-cuff sequencer basslines, otherwise you have to plan what you're going to do before even switching it on": Here's what the reviews said when the dance-music-defining Roland TB-303 was released in 1981

Happy TB-303 Day! Grab your time travel machine, because back then it only cost a couple of hundred bucks

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Speedy J on the 30th anniversary of ambient techno classic Ginger: "My approach was to take more time for tracks to develop - be less focused on the impact of the drums, and give everything a bit more space"

Recently celebrating its 30th birthday, Speedy J tells us about the making of his 1993 Warp Records debut

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10 of the best Roland TB-303 tracks of all time: Fatboy Slim, Voodoo Ray, Aphex Twin and more

Celebrate TB-303 Day with these squelchy bassline classics

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Roland and Serato come together to celebrate 303 day with a double control vinyl set that also honours the TR-606 drum machine

“If it wasn’t for the 303, I wouldn’t even be here right now talking to you,” says producer Fast Eddie

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SampleRadar TB-303 Day special: 252 free 303-style acid samples

Celebrate 303 Day with a killer Roland TB-303 sample pack - absolutely free

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"It sounded completely out of place in the chart it was in, and the year it was released": 5 Prophet-5-powered tracks by Radiohead, Gary Numan, Japan and more

We're in Prophet-5 mode, as we celebrate five decades of the first 'proper' polysynth with five – ok six – glorious tracks

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"If you absolutely hated Stairway to Heaven, nobody can blame you for that because it was so… pompous": The glory and burden of Led Zeppelin's Stairway To Heaven, over half a century on

In early 1970 Jimmy Page had a concept for an epic song that “would unravel in layers as it progressed”. More than five decades on, Stairway To Heaven still has a hold on its writers and the world

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