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SOS Awards 2026: Voting Open!

The annual SOS Awards are now underway, and as always, we’re asking readers to help us choose the best pro-audio releases from the last 12 months.

Sound On Sound

Oct 8, 11:30 AM

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Save 50% on VSL libraries

VSL are celebrating their 25th anniversary by offering a substantial discount code that can be redeemed against any single product.

Sound On Sound

Oct 8, 08:30 AM

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PRS Guitars Announces New SE Models Plus a New Combo Amp Ahead of 2026 Updates

PRS Guitars today announced several new SE Series models and the David Grissom signature DGT 15 amplifier as a combo. Along with the debut of the SE version of Herman Li’s signature model Chleo, the fresh models include the SE DGT Standard and the SE CE 24 Standard Satin...

Premier Guitar

Oct 7, 08:52 PM

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Stompboxtober 2025: Mr. Black Pedals

Stompboxtober rolls on! Enter today for your chance to WIN the DoubleTracker Stereo from Mr. Black — true stereo double‑tracking that brings lush depth, detune magic, and studio-grade dimension to your sound. Don’t forget to come back tomorrow for the next pedal...

Premier Guitar

Oct 7, 08:00 PM

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Project: BIAS X from Positive Grid

Project: BIAS X promises to transform the way that guitarists and producers craft, explore and refine their sound.

Sound On Sound

Oct 7, 08:00 PM

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“This is your chance to own the sound that defined heavy metal. Don’t wait, once they’re gone, they’re gone”: Ashdown and Reverb are selling Geezer Butler’s Head Of Doom bass amps, signed by the man himself

This Reverb exclusive offers 15 of Butler's signature heads used for rehearsals for Black Sabbath's final show, each coming with a COA from Ashdown MD Dan Gooday

Keyboard Magazine

Oct 7, 07:15 PM

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Mod Garage DIY Guitar Makeover: First Steps and Needle Files

Hello, and welcome back to another installment of Mod Garage. My homework for this month’s column was to completely disassemble last month’s Harley Benton guitar, and as expected, there were some surprises under the hood. The first surprise hit me while taking off the...

Premier Guitar

Oct 7, 07:05 PM

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“It could be easy to think that the strings and brass sections are somehow weaker than their synthesizer counterpart, but this would be an enormous mistake”: Cherry Audio Trident mkIII review

Cherry Audio’s new mythological synth provides a three-pronged attack on an early '80s and underexploited classic

Keyboard Magazine

Oct 7, 07:00 PM

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"It's an orchestra-in-a-box, multi-timbral wall of sound, and Swiss army synth rolled into one": Cherry Audio's Trident Mk III continues the legacy of an underrated Korg classic

This '80s gem packaged a polysynth, brass and string sections into a single instrument, popping up on records by everyone from Yes and OMD to Phoenix

Keyboard Magazine

Oct 7, 07:00 PM

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“You can make the best album ever with a laptop and plugins. You don’t need anything else”: Jim-E Stack reveals his production secrets and talks working with Lorde and Bon Iver

The Grammy-tipped producer invites Universal Audio into his LA studio for the next edition of the company's Apollo Creators video series

Keyboard Magazine

Oct 7, 06:49 PM

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“Given the fact that this is all-mahogany with an ebony fingerboard and a Bigsby, it’s a little more hi-fi… but it will rock, it will roll”: Epiphone raids Joe Bonamassa’s Nerdville archive for another reproduction of a vintage unicorn

The latest Joe Bonamassa x Epiphone signature model is a replica of his 1959 'Black Beauty' dual-pickup Les Paul Custom, with a Bigsby for wobble, Grover Imperials for that upscale touch...

Keyboard Magazine

Oct 7, 05:48 PM

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Alesis Drums Nitro Ultimate kit announced

Alesis' new Nitro Ultimate is a nine-piece kit that’s been designed to offer a complete practice-to-performance solution, and promises to bridge the gap between entry-level and professional electronic drumming.

Sound On Sound

Oct 7, 05:00 PM

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"There were times recording Rosanna – and Africa, too – where we literally had one spare track. Just the one!”: Toto’s Steve Porcaro on the perils of recording live to analogue tape, and what happened if you were the one who messed up the crucial ta

“We were debating whether we needed to do another guitar take. ‘Are you really sure we need another take? That last one was pretty good. If we punch in, we’re going to lose that one’”

Keyboard Magazine

Oct 7, 04:50 PM

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Own the Reimagined Mark IIC+ HRG, and the New Vintage Thiele Cabinet

MESA/Boogie is the original boutique Home of Tone, handcrafting amplifiers of uncompromising quality from the world’s finest materials in Petaluma, California, USA. Today, with reverence and pride, MESA/Boogie has announced the arrival of the Mark IIC+ HRG and the return...

Premier Guitar

Oct 7, 04:42 PM

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“Sounds like four lads trying to get out of Manchester”: The Stone Roses’ debut single to be reissued for charity

It’s forty years since So Young was first released

Keyboard Magazine

Oct 7, 04:16 PM

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“She said, ‘Looks like you found it on a beach. But then it also looks like it came from outer space’”: Ken Parker, visionary luthier behind the Parker Fly, has died, aged 73

Parker was one of guitar designs great radicals, whose legendary electric, the Parker Fly, became a '90s classic, famously played by the likes of Joni Mitchell, Adrian Belew, David Lynch and more

Keyboard Magazine

Oct 7, 04:15 PM

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