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"I can't help but smile when using a good wah, and the Vox V863-CA certainly qualifies as more than just a good one": Vox V863-CA Semi Auto Wah review

Featuring 3 modes and both manual and automatic control, Vox has put together a versatile wah to help get the funk out

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“That’s not how we were. We would never do that”: Ringo has put his foot down over parts of the Beatles biopics

Plus the drummer says he still feels like a young man

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“It’s a circle of freaks and I don’t want to be involved”: How the Oasis vs Blur chart battle marked Britpop's cultural peak, and the beginning of its end

1995’s chart battle between Oasis and Blur cemented the two bands as Britpop’s warring kings, but creatively, the movement was unravelling

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“It’s marketing. It’s trolling”: AI band The Velvet Sundown are an ‘art hoax’, confirms 'spokesman'

But does it matter?

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"For real-time plugins, it’s very hard to do something effective with AI. It’s very good at big brush things”: Leapwing Audio on their stable of forensic mix plugins

Leapwing's intuitive, incisive plugins let users perform forensic mix surgery with ease and emulate the tones of iconic producers.

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“Years of research, development and deep love of FM synthesis has gone into picking just the right balance of flexibility and simplicity”: Pivot is a ‘no-nonsense’ FM synth plugin from the designer behind one of our favourite hardware instruments

With three operators, no algorithms and a morphing filter, Pivot aims to make FM user-friendly – and you can try a Lite version for free

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“Almost everyone thinks it’s strings”: Lorde unmasks the unusual guitar part on her new album that was created using a classic ‘90s Roland V-Guitar processor that’s now “insanely expensive” on the second-hand market

Plus, the Teenage Engineering OP-1 patch that “shows up everywhere” on the record

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“I know there’s going to be at least one more gig - I'm not looking forward to putting the setlist together”: Joe Perry is convinced his band will play again, despite retirement from touring

He suggests that Steven Tyler would be able to take part

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“We wrote it in a farmyard in France. We’d never heard of ‘disco music’ at the time. We were singing about the state of the times, and the human condition”: How the Bee Gees channelled angst and despair to create the greatest dancefloor-filler of all time

Ah, ah, ah, ah...

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“If your flanger is too harsh, try a chorus - if it's too subtle, try a phaser”: How modulation effects work and how to use them

Phasing and flanging are often confused. We ask why - and demystify!

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“How is a clear CD even possible? The data is written on the silver part?”: It’s clear to see that Lorde’s see-through Virgin CD doesn’t play in most CD players

Fans take to social media to share a string of disappointing ‘No Disc’ errors after giving Lorde's latest a spin

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"It’s simple enough to create the perfect hard-tuned and harmonised effects within our DAW, providing you have the right software": How to harness hard-tuned vocals

That hard-tuned, robot-like sound, first popularised by Cher, has now become something of a staple in modern pop

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“Bound to capture djent and thall-loving audiences because of the fine balance of brutality, customisation, and ease-of-use”: Atlas DSP – Your Last Steps review

The new kid on the block delivers its first hard-hitting amp sim, which is tailor-made for brutal noise making and modern metal grit – just don’t call it the blues

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5 innovative synth plugins daring to do things differently

Unconventional and creatively inspiring, these soft synths are pushing synthesis in bold new directions

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"I want to make something that allows people to express themselves purely and not feel like they’re having to make compromises": Musik Hack on their quest to refine plugin UI design

We sit down with Musik Hack co-founder Sam Fischmann to hear more about the philosophy behind its superb mastering plugin

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"We have mended broken bones and broken hearts. But we have followed this road together, with each other, for each other, no matter what": Foo Fighters mark their 30th anniversary with a new song

Today's Song was released... today

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“Doing this makes me feel like he's always going to be here with me”: Meet the guitarist who’s worked his dad’s ashes into his Telecaster

"This way he will still be with me at all the shows and this has given me a sense of closure," he says

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“Everyone comes back changed”: Bicep on their new collaborative project with Inuit musicians

Takkuuk premieres tomorrow in London

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“We are honoured to show our love for Ozzy and Black Sabbath”: Judas Priest might not be playing at Back To The Beginning but they have just saluted the OG metal gods with a cover of War Pigs

Also, is that Pelham Blue Les Paul Custom a new signature model for Richie Faulkner?

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“It’s great for squeezing energy out of lacklustre ambient sounds”: Our pick of the very best VCA compressor software emulation plugins for any music project

Our resident mixing expert Jon Musgrave, serves up his go-to toolkit for compressing with the best of them

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“Sometimes I’m surprised by what I can do now, because I could not sing”: As she prepares to release her new album, Vie, Doja Cat says that she now has a lot more knowledge of how to use her voice “as an instrument”

She also calls out people who enjoy pop music but “don’t respect it or what it is”

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“And the award for best AI song of the year goes to…”: The Future Sound Awards are new music awards 100% focused on rewarding AI-derived music

Reckon that your AI tune doesn’t get the love that it should? A new competition aims to celebrate the best new AI music and its makers

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“Thunderous sub-octave, expressive envelope, and lush modulation effects with killer tracking and sustain”: MXR unveils the MB301 Bass Synth – instant funk for your pedalboard

The Bass Synth is a funk engine with selectable waveforms, presets, and monophonic synth sounds evoking golden era Stevie Wonder, Michael Jackson and Parliament/Funkadelic

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"Minimal Audio's Rift and Xfer's Serum are by far the most-used plugins in our toolbox": ARMNHMR on their tools of the trade

Joseph Chung and Joseph Abella’s fusion of dubstep, trance and techno has found favour with millions of listeners globally

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“I’m going, ‘Whoa, I just quit my band, put all my eggs in thisThin Lizzybasket, and now we’re breaking up over a beard?!’”: Scott Gorham recalls the band's close shave when Phil Lynott was not tickled by Brian Robertson’s whiskers

Thin Lizzy's Live And Dangerous lineup was exactly that, and with Robertson, things could get hairy over the most trivial matter

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