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Saturday December 6, 2025. 03:00 PM
quot “It's amazing what you can do with a drum machine - and two of the most expensive sampling and production workstations ever made”: Unpacking the technical genius behind one of the most iconic rock songs of the 1980s
Take an old 4-track demo, add a splash of expensive 80s tech, and the results might be a good enough reason for a band of prog legends to reform!
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controller “Nobody can play better than that guy, man!”: In a new in-depth interview, guitar virtuoso Steve Morse discusses the supernatural powers of John Petrucci, Eric Johnson, Angel Vivaldi and Deep Purple legends Jon Lord and Ritchie Blackmore
His new Steve Morse Band album Triangulation is an audacious work of instrumental rock
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most “I remember my assistant putting on his headphones in the studio, and he took them off after a few minutes, looked at me and said, ‘Wow, this song is crazy’”: Dan Nigro says that he always knew that Chappell Roan’s Pink Pony Club was something special
Recorded in 2019, it took five years for it to become a hit
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Friday December 5, 2025. 04:12 PM
him “Mix, overdub, spinback and scratch, all locked in time with your modular”: ALM Busy Circuits' new Pamela’s Disco module lets you sync a Eurorack rig to a CDJ or mixer
The 4HP Eurorack module can convert a Pro DJ Link master into analogue clock outputs
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its “I used to accommodate him. I'd isolate him, put him in a booth and not record him. The others, particularly Mick and Keith, would say 'Just tell him to get the hell out'": Beggars Banquet, the album that was the turning point for the Rolling Stones
Album was the original ‘return to form’
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how “I was sitting there with my four-track and there was this riff that I had. I started singing this melody and saying that line, ‘I want to be yours…’ And I remembered the poem”: How Arctic Monkeys’ most popular song was created from early-’80s punk poetr
It has an astonishing 3.4 billion streams worldwide
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music "One of the hardest things I ever had to do was mix that song": A music professor breaks down Steve Cropper and Otis Redding's (Sittin’ on) The Dock of the Bay
Following Cropper's passing at the age of 84, we explore the songwriting genius behind one of his most beloved collaborations
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serato "What were the skies like when you were young?": How The Orb's Little Fluffy Clouds showed the world that sampling could be an art form
The story of the blissfully psychedelic bricolage that launched The Orb's career, introduced ambient house to the masses and even prompted a lawsuit from Rickie Lee Jones
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pro audio “It’s quite normal to be groped by men”: Harassment, low pay and exploitation all reported by young musicians and artists in new survey
Over 70% say they feel unsafe in a music industry workplace
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Thursday December 4, 2025. 06:41 PM
audio Dirty Boy turns the tables on guitar’s digital revolution with a preamp pedal inspired by a plugin – the all-analogue SilverBOY
SilverBOY is fully wired for sound and presents players with a high-functioning preamp pedal with all mod cons, proving that the inspiration between pedals and plugins can go both ways
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music This $99 plugin recreates a classic studio technique invented at Abbey Road for The Beatles – and it's free for the next three days
AIR Music Tech has made Tape Double Track available as a free download until December 8
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news "They put it on hold so nobody else can record it. But he didn’t actually record it. That was when Don Henley said, ‘You need to quit giving your songs away’”: Sheryl Crow says that she once wrote a song for Eric Clapton that never saw the light of
She still isn't telling who My Favorite Mistake was written about, though...
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proaudio "We didn't want to make just another controller": OXI Instruments' E16 is a sleek and portable MIDI controller that's more powerful than it looks
Snapshot morphing, knob recording and LED-ringed encoders give this performance-focused controller an edge
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musician “The best MIDI controller setup isn’t about having more – it’s about staying connected to what matters”: AlphaTheta and Serato launch Slab, the first hardware controller for Serato Studio
The entry-level pad controller offers a slick, simplified workflow for Serato Studio, but can also work with Serato Sample and Serato DJ Pro
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studio “It was pretty much written in a day. I knew I had something quite special. Then the next day we played it with the band and it sounded like a bag of…”: How Neil Finn created the beautiful ballad that gave Crowded House a global smash hit
'Hey now, hey now...'
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pro audio news “My mom said, ‘I’ll lend you a quarter if you become a guitar player.’ I think I did!”: Legendary guitarist Steve Cropper dies aged 84
A key figure in shaping the sound of soul music in the ’60s
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Wednesday December 3, 2025. 06:07 PM
pro audio news headlines EVH Gear turns its “holy grail” Eddie Van Halen amp Hypersonic with an all-digital 5150III 6L6 modelling combo that weighs a whopping 16kg less than its tube-driven equivalent
The three-channel 50W monster is a super lightweight combo that is easy on your back while showing no quarter with its high-gain tone, and EVH Gear says its faithful to the original tube amp
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quot "It's the most influential drum machine ever created – and has likely featured on more records than any other": A history of Roland drum machines, from the TR-77 to the TR-1000
We take a backwards glance at the boundary-pushing beatboxes that led Roland to its latest landmark release
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controller “When we were finished gouging it with screwdrivers, spraying blops of paint on it, dragging it around the yard, and banging it on the driveway, we hung it up in a tree”: Adrian Belew on how he and Seymour Duncan made one of the first relic’d guitars
The prog guitar icon has posted new pics taken by Seymour Duncan that show off their handiwork as they turned Belew's new Strat into a relic and started guitar's most controversial trend
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most “We’re in an era of conformity in electronic music – very few people get celebrated for doing anything outside of it”: How TEED went back to basics with a bedroom set-up and a borrowed synth for third album Always With Me
The artist formerly known as Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs dives into the making of his latest project, driven by a desire to keep things simple and find joy in the creative process
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