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Thursday October 2, 2025. 02:53 PM
quot “For the first time, we’re moving beyond samples”: Splice unveils free plugin and virtual instrument platform with hundreds of free presets
INSTRUMENT features 1200+ multi-sampled presets built on sounds from Spitfire Audio, the British virtual instrument developer recently acquired by Splice
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first “I didn’t think that Oasis were very good songwriters. This obsession with Britishness just didn’t really compute with us”: Placebo on drugs, Bowie and standing out from Britpop ‘like a sore thumb’
Band have a new documentary coming on
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his “Lars has a thing that every time they’ve done an album, he comes and plays it to me, and hopes that I nod and say, ‘That’s a good lad’. I said, ’You forgot the bass!’“: Flemming Rasmussen is still confused by Metallica’s bassless ...And Justice For All
Part of it was to annoy Jason Newsted, producer speculates
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john “I wanted to sculpt something off-kilter, a shape that’s equal parts eye-candy and ‘what the hell is that?’”: KHDK has made killer pedals for Scott Ian, Chino Moreno, Gary Holt and more – now it is making electric guitars, with artist collabs coming
KHDK Electronics supremo David Karon debuted his new designs at Guitar Summit, in Mannheim, and while they are not all über-metal, the 'all pointy' Model 101 certainly is... metal
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band "The core piano sounds have a rich tone with a surprising amount of depth": Roland E-X50 arranger keyboard review
We test drive Roland's beginner-friendly arranger keyboard
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out “It’s shocking, it’s disheartening, it’s insulting – most importantly – it’s a wake up call”: Cardiff band decry the fact AI ‘band’ trained on their music overtakes them on Spotify
Holding Absence tell their listeners to “oppose AI music”
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Wednesday October 1, 2025. 07:49 PM
classic “It possesses the horsepower to remain clean, even at the loudest volumes, and handles – and delivers – the highest dynamic content from your picking hand”: Mesa/Boogie reissues a cult classic that takes the amp brand back to the beginning
Loved by the likes of John Petrucci, the Mark IIC+ HRG presents super-clean tone at super-high volume and a super-tight crunch voicing for rock and metal rhythms
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song "Legendary analogue sound for the whole band": Universal Audio launches Volt 876 USB Recording Studio, the first rackmount interface in the Volt series
A 24-in/28-out audio interface equipped with eight tube-emulating Vintage mic preamps and eight 1176-style compressors, Volt 876 is an affordable alternative to Apollo at $999
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pro audio “I drove everyone crazy with it because I was the only one who noticed at first, but once I pointed it out we all heard it and wanted it gone”: The curious case of The Weeknd’s mic distortion, and how his live sound team fixed it
“We came to realize that it was the result of the combination of The Weeknd’s unique vocal timbre and the hyping of compression and high-end,” says front of house engineer Derek Brener
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audio “Our guitars, bass guitar, cymbals, snare, and my pedal board were stolen last night”: Indie rockers The Beths appeal for leads
They’re currently playing on borrowed equipment
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music “You can turn an Epiphone into the Tommy Bolin Burst!”: Seymour Duncan expands Joe Bonamassa signature pickup range with a humbucker set based on the PAFs from his 1960 ‘Bolin Burst’ Les Paul Standard
Like JoBo says, got a cheap Les Paul? Give it a high-end power-up with a pair of replica humbuckers from his iconic Bolin Burst, fresh out the custom shop – and the first 500 sets come signed
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news “I woke up in the morning and found John watching the sunrise and still listening to the song. It was as if we were both haunted by it”: How Yoko Ono’s disco-infused classic Walking On Thin Ice captivated John Lennon in their final, poignant collaboratio
“I woke up in the morning and found John watching the sunrise and still listening to the song. It was as if we were both haunted by it”: How Yoko Ono’s disco-infused classic Walking On Thin Ice captivated John Lennon in their final, poignant collaboration
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proaudio "It means a lot to me because the greatest feeling in my life, truly, is playing new music for people and seeing their reactions": David Guetta is the World’s Number One DJ – again
French DJ wins award for a record fifth time
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musician "The 808 is still one of the sexiest drum machines ever built": Modeselektor on classic Roland gear, their new DJ-Kicks mix and why the iPhone has become their go-to instrument
Housed in a new studio, Berlin’s favourite sonic troublemakers crash the DJ-Kicks series with a shape-shifting techno-industrial mix. We sit down with Sebastian Szary to find out more
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studio “I was just rebelling… I always regretted not putting it out”: Which '90s pop princess recorded a grunge album that was never released?
It was under the band name ‘Chick’
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pro audio news “I remember when I first heard it. Big deal for me – I loved it immediately. It’s all over Rosanna, all over Africa”: Toto’s Steve Porcaro names his Top 5 synths
“How much is it worth? Ha! Don’t even ask!”
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pro audio news headlines “Is this the best guitar I’ve ever played? Including the ones in your museum? I believe so”: Mikael Åkerfeldt has played Kurt Cobain’s 1953 D-18 ‘Grandpa’ and 19th-century holy grail acoustics but says his Martin OM signature beats the lot of them
Limited to 74 instruments worldwide, the Opeth frontman's signature model has a truly exquisite three-piece back of Guatemalan rosewood with an East Indian rosewood wedge
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quot “When Ronnie sang about Neil Young in that song, that was kind of a joke lyric about him. We loved Neil Young!”: The true story of Lynyrd Skynyrd’s Sweet Home Alabama
'Neil wanted to play the song with us!'
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first Tame Impala's synth company announces worldwide release date for Orchid and unveils companion plugin
Telepathic Instruments' chord-generating mini-synth will ship on Friday 10 October
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his “The first Roland drum machine in over 40 years with true analogue voices”: The TR-1000 combines analogue 808 and 909 recreations with the best parts of the TR-8S and more
Roland's new flagship beat machine also offers stereo-sampling, loop slicing, probability sequencing and much more
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