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With up to 60% off in Thomann's Spring Sale now is the time to give your pedalboard a spring clean - here are my 8 pedal choices starting at only £9.60!

For a limited time, you can score substantial discounts on a host of pedals from the likes of IK Multimedia, Hotone, MXR, Digitech and more ...
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“We hate AI slop. We don't want the fun to be taken out of music making": We tried to vibe code a custom looper pedal with Polyend Endless – here's what happened

Polyend founder Piotr Raczyński explains the tech behind the company's eye-catching effects pedal and its text-to-code ...
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Relive the golden era of the DX7, Jupiter-8 and Prophet V with this mega-pack of free '80s synth samples

The '80s was a transformative period for music, spawning countless artists and sounds that remain vastly influential in the ...
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"The first thing, Maurice walked in and said 'You're the guys who stole our song!' He was just joking – he said, 'Thanks for making us cool again!'”: Kevin O’Toole ...

Best known for Set You Free, their ‘90s rave anthem, electronic music outfit N-Trance also had a string of hits with adapted ...
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“You shouldn't even know about that. I’d rather not speak about it”: The contentious origin of the David Guetta monolith that brought Sia to mainstream attention

In 2011, Titanium was inescapable, but its many millions of listeners probably didn’t know that its powerhouse Sia vocal was ...
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I just stumbled on a treasure trove of free glitch plugins

Inear Display has generously made its entire catalogue of audio tools available as pay-what-you-want downloads ...
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“The perfect marriage of brilliance and brute force”: With high-output humbuckers, an onboard Lumen Filter, compound radius fingerboards and a contoured body, Gr…

Meet the Jet with the Luminlay markers, the contoured body, the Twin Six humbuckers and a filter for percussive high-gain ...
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“Our determination to achieve a sustainable future is strengthened and energised by your support”: Native Instruments releases update on insolvency proceedings

CEO Nick Williams writes that the company has seen “strong interest from multiple parties with deep roots in audio and ...
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“We wrote 24K Magic when Uptown Funk was No 1. So if you hear the same spirit in that song, that's why”: A decade on, we look back at the musical theory and retro gear that ...

As modern classics go, 2016's 24K Magic, the title track of Bruno Mars' third studio album, is a solid entry in the canon, made all the more surprising by its heavy cribbing from funk and classic 80s ...
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“Who would have thought we'd be having full Ableton running on an iPhone chip? That's kind of crazy”: The first reviews of the MacBook Neo are in, and it looks like g…

Producer L Dre is one of several YouTubers who have been taking the machine for a spin. In his video, we see him firing up ...
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“I tried to write a love song that wasn’t corny, that didn’t sound stupid or lame the way many do. I think I succeeded”: How Talking Heads crafted the delicate beauty ...

Both one of Talking Heads’ most out-of-character compositions and their most emotionally resonant, This Must Be the Place continues to cast its spell over listeners ...
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“You’d have Mark talking about strings, Our Kid talking about amplifiers. Whereas me and Bez would just walk in and be ourselves. So nobody wanted to talk to them”: Shaun ...

“You’d have Mark (Day, guitarist) talking about strings, or Our Kid (Paul Ryder, bass) really trying to be the pseudo-intellectual, talking about amplifiers. Whereas me and Bez would just walk in and ...