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“I pulled this Moog bass forward… we were like, ‘OK, that feels kind of trashy’”: Lorde says that she needed to find “just the right amount of dirt” to finish her new single, What Was That

She was working on it with producer Jim-E Stack for almost a year

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“PC Music was just two guys in a room making stuff and uploading it to the internet - that’s where it starts”: Danny L Harle on self-discovery, success and helping unsigned artists find their sound

One of pop's most visionary producers, Harle has worked with Dua Lipa, Charli XCX and Caroline Polachek. Now he's passing on his wisdom to six aspiring music-makers as part of the Amex Unsigned initiative

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PreSonus’s Quantum HD interfaces can be the heart of a powerful, convenient recording setup

The US brand's top-end interfaces pair with Eris Pro monitors and Studio One to create a recording setup perfect for guitarists and producers alike

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“Whether you’re looking to liven up a dull snare or beef up a lacklustre bass sound, these plugins are extremely handy”: Our resident platinum award-winning mixer and producer shares 10 of his go-to plugins

Our picks of the modern virtual tools that will transform any self-sustaining producer’s workflow

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Soundtoys just dropped the best free reverb plugin we've tried in years - grab it now before it costs $99

The retro-futuristic SpaceBlender is an experimental sound design tool that blends an innovative approach with vintage inspiration

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“I knew since I first listened to the music that it was gonna be big - because the music was incredible”: Charli XCX's Brat mastering engineer Idania Valencia on finalising a modern classic

The Mexican mastering engineer on working on Charli XCX's Grammy-winning behemoth and why she works entirely with software

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“Last time I saw my mother alive was at her own father’s funeral. It sounds almost too Irish": Bono shares trailer for his Apple TV+ documentary

Songs Of Surrender is a TV version of his 2023 one man show

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“If it’s not all samples, what did those people do to get that credit on the song?”: Diane Warren on the trend for hit songs having multiple writers, and why she prefers to work alone

"I’m like, Really? Wow. What did you guys do?”

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What is Superbooth 2025?: Everything you need to know ahead of the Berlin music tech showcase

All the info on the year’s hottest synth show – When is it, who'll be there and how to get tickets?

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‘Ain’t Going Down Without a Fight’: Michael Bolton confirms he has incurable brain cancer

Singer says he is living with “a reality of mortality”

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“Some of the greatest musicianship right now is young and female... If you want to take a course in great songwriting, go study at the college of Taylor Swift”: Sheryl Crow heaps praise on Olivia Rodrigo, Chappell Roan and Phoebe Bridgers

"These women are not just in the studio throwing in a lyric - they play,” she says

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“It's rare to encounter a song from the last 70 years that doesn’t involve it in some way”: Why reverb is one of the most reliable effects in a producer's arsenal

“When used correctly, a good reverb can lift a song into the stratosphere”

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“All the albums I did with Metallica were recorded on 24-track analogue tape. There’s not a computer in sight”: How Flemming Rasmussen produced Metallica’s classic Master Of Puppets

“I rate James as the best rhythm guitar player on the planet," the producer said

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“We could see John begin smiling. At the end of the first verse, he gave an exuberant thumbs-up and McCartney and Harrison began slapping each other on the back”: How one Beatles track spawned a recording technique revolution

Originally called ’The Void’, the groundbreaking song found the Fab Four exploring higher planes of consciousness - and leaning on the studio more than ever before

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Bastl Instruments' Kastle 2 Wave Bard is a cute, patchable and experimental groovebox that fits in your pocket

Get hands-on and let the Wave Bard’s pattern-generating brain take the creative strain

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“An additive chorus effect that plays well as an ‘always-on’ tonal thickener with a twist”: Don’t sleep on Catalinbread’s Wake if you’re looking for dream pop tones on your pedalboard

Wake is a chorus with a blendable clean sub-octave effect that can help you dream a little bigger and make one guitar sound huge

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“If I’m going to write a song with an artist, I’m probably going to end up doing most of the work anyway, to be honest”: Super-songwriter Diane Warren on why she prefers to work alone, and can't understand it when "maybe an OK song" has "eight writers"

"I’m like, Really? Wow. What did you guys do?”

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“When you want a boring sound to sound rhythmic and exciting - reach for the delay”: How to understand and use delay effectively in your productions

It's one of the most widely used effects forproducers, synthesists and guitarists alike, but how does it work?

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Neuzeit Instruments drops Drop, a snapshot-based MIDI and CV controller that's designed for... drops

A master controller for all your live performance gear, Drop can schedule snapshot changes to trigger at the end of predetermined cycles, making it easy to perform dramatic build-ups and impactful transitions

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“He stopped writing, I think, because he just ran out. He had used that guitar neck up. He did everything and anything that neck could do”: Sammy Hagar explains Eddie Van Halen's lost years

“When I joined the band, everyone says, ‘Oh man, they started playing keyboards"

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“Classic PRS aesthetics and a voice that blends warmth with bolt-on articulation”: PRS Guitars keeps the limited edition releases coming with the return of the CE22

Low turn pickups, coil split, top-shelf hardware and sweet finishes make this rare bolt-on a serious high-end option for all occasions

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“Get the ideas out - and then look back with different ears or different eyes in a few months. Then the really good ones will stand out to you”: Tourist shares his music production wisdom

We visited the electronic artist in the studio ahead of the release of his fifth album to learn his hard-won lessons for artists starting out

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“We tried to capture the heart of what a Gibson Custom guitar is, and I think we really have done it”: Epiphone expands and upgrades its flagship Gibson Custom collab with eight stunning vintage-inspired electrics

Gibson USA pickups, rosewood 'boards, Vintage Gloss finishes, 3D scanned neck profiles– the Les Pauls, Firebirds, ES-335 and SG of the Inspired By Gibson Custom range might be Epiphone's best yet

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“It's probably my Behringer Model D monosynth. So simple and obviously cheap, but it’s just so versatile. I’ve used it on basically every track that I’ve created”: 10 producers share the tech they can’t live without

A raft of music-makers choose the items that are integral to their workflow

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“No one noticed that half the playlist was AI-created, and a few even preferred the AI tracks”: Should today’s music-makers and producers fear AI - or embrace its inevitability?

This is the dawning of the AI age - but it doesn’t have to be the death knell for humans. Here’s why we believe music production will always be a human-led pursuit

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