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"People were always asking me, but I never used to tell them": Trevor Horn finally dishes out his sampling and drum machine tips in a new studio interview

The legendary producer lowers his guard when quizzed about the "golden era" of hi-tech music making

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NAMM 2025: Musik Hack to showcase its sound-enhancing plugin Fuel at this year's show

The Master Plan developer's recently launched second plugin melds a bass enhancer, limiter, saturator and clipper

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NAMM 2025: XILS-lab promises "virtual Vangelis" with its new Yamaha CS-80 emulation

The Eighty expands the potential of Yamaha's storied '70s classic with a third synth layer, expanded modulation options and extra effects

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“It’s just the same word over and over. Even a baby can sing, ‘Jolene, Jolene, Jolene, Jolene’”: How Dolly Parton created a country classic later covered by The White Stripes, Beyoncé and more

“I was playing guitar pretty seriously back then,” Dolly said

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“I’m sorry I ruined your song!”: Mike Portnoy hears Taylor Swift's Shake It Off for the first time and plays along... with surprising results

The Dream Theater drummer gets put on the spot but emerges as brilliant as he is baffled

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“Nile's riff on Get Lucky is a classic example of a funk riff, where the second of each 16th-note duplet is slightly delayed”: Locking down the theory of groove

If you’ve ever wondered why your tracks don’t have that extra exuberance, it could just all be a matter of groove.

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Fingerboard care basics: 6 things you need you need know about how to clean and condition your guitar fretboard

A string change is the ideal opportunity to get your 'board back to its best

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“How long will Shergold be one of the unknown pleasures of electric guitar if it carries on making guitars as good as this?”: Shergold Masquerader Standard SM11 review

Another home run from Patrick James Eggle? This Masquerader could be the real deal for those seeking an affordable doublecut with a difference

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NAMM 2025: “A solid body electric guitar built around one idea: Playfulness”: Verso unveils Sine, a totally unique electric guitar with three-dimensional pickup movement for “a new layer of expressiveness”

Just when you think you have seen it all, along comes the Verso Sine, with its moveable pickups and Sine pad that allows you to mechanically control the volume for swells and tremolo effects

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“It just doesn’t sound like anything else”: Believe it or not, synth-pop legend Howard Jones had never owned a Prophet-5 before, but he’s got one now

Better late than never

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NAMM 2025: Reloop's Keypad Pro is a portable, wireless MIDI controller that'll play nice with Bitwig Studio

Keypad Pro packs a 25-key keyboard, 16 aftertouch-enabled drum pads and eight channel strips into a lightweight controller equipped with Bluetooth MIDI

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NAMM 2025: “The perfect end-of-chain solution when your gig requires your practice to become perfection”: Walrus Audio expands utility stompbox range with the Canvas Rehearsal

Plug your guitar in, send audio to the Canvas Rehearsal via Bluetooth or cable, and there are a number of customisable metronome features on hand to make you a better player

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“It’s by no means necessary to attend a music production school to have a career in electronic music - this is, in fact, a relatively new concept”: Opinions vary on the value of music production schools in 2025

In a recent long-read feature, we heard a range of views on the usefulness of music production schools when building a career

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NAMM 2025: “Mesa/Boogie has faithfully recreated the original formula – complete with ominous low end, harmonically rich top end, and that unmistakable midrange scoop”: The ‘90s spec two-channel Dual Rectifier is officially back

The sound of '90s hard-rock, metal and grunge lives again

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“I should have been dead that night!”: Former Kiss guitarist Ace Frehley recalls the moment he almost died on stage

And he nearly took out Gene Simmons with his rocket-firing guitar!

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“He was such a perfectionist, attention to detail, every part”: Orianthi on what she learned from Michael Jackson and how the King of Pop was so exacting he even directed her guitar tone

The pop icon died before Orianthi got the chance to play live with him but the intensity of the rehearsals left a lasting impression on the Aussie guitar phenom

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"It's the hip-hop version of the burning of the Library of Alexandria": Madlib launches fundraiser after losing home, gear and extensive record collection in LA wildfires

The revered hip-hop producer is asking for donations to assist with "immediate personal needs" after fires claimed his Altadena home

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“I wanted to do it as if it was brand new”: Eric Clapton on his classic MTV Unplugged performance - which now features previously unseen footage

The show that spawned the best-selling live album of all time!

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“We believe we could make this happen for under $500”: Behringer asks for user suggestions as it considers making an “affordable” version of the classic E-MU SP-1200 sampler

The company is also on the lookout for “experienced software engineers” to work on the project

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Use this classic free Computer Music synth to generate bubbling movement across your track

One of the magazine's most beloved freebies is the perfect tool for creating a sense of movement in your mixes

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Proggy pentatonic! How to use the good ol’ pentatonic scale in cool new ways

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“George is certainly not a rock player, and neither is Ringo. They’re both swing musicians”: Producer T Bone Burnett on the country roots of the Beatles

"Almost everything he did with the Beatles was country," Burnett says of Starr

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“Thanks to all those that have enjoyed it without understanding it”: Rage Against the Machine's most controversial track exceeds a billion streams

The band's debut single has been divisive since its release, but its potency has been proved by this latest milestone

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“A great tribute to his life and music. I think if you love Bob’s music you should see this great movie”: Neil Young's review of new Bob Dylan biopic A Complete Unknown is in

Of Dylan, Young says: "Once he was on my bus and I didn’t recognize him and threw him off but that’s another story"

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“I don't think the term ‘Heavy Metal’ was used for Led Zeppelin”: So what was the first metal album to hit No 1 in the US?

Was it Randy Rhoads’ old band Quiet Riot that made history?

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