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"The best value expandable pedal power supply out there right now": Harley Benton PowerPlant ISO-1AC Pro Modular review

Handling high-draw pedals for less money

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“They’re not my strings, not my pickups, not my anything, but I just thought, ‘Well, it’s eight o’clock, just make a show!’”: Julian Lage says using rented Telecasters to perform live freed him from gear anxiety

Drummers do it, engineers do it, so why not guitarists? Lage says backlining Telecasters for a string of dates with John Zorn was a challenging but ultimately liberating experience

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Watch Billy F Gibbons jam Jimmy Reed’s Baby What You Want Me To Do on a Vintera II ‘70s Tele Deluxe with Matt Sweeney, Danielle Haim and Tim Montana

This very cool promo for Fender's Vintera II series finds the ZZ Top rock icon and his BFGs making like it's the ‘70s, striking up an irresistible groove on the electric blues pioneer's 1959 hit

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Music theory 101: notes, intervals, scales and chords explained

There can be little doubt that understanding how music works can help you to make better music; or, at the very least, make things easier when you’re at the composing stage of your project.

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U2's Even Better Better Than The Real Thing live video showcases The Edge's UAFX amp pedals in full Vegas mode

The guitarist confirmed to us last year that he's using three UA amp modelling pedals for Fender and Vox tones at the Sphere

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NAMM 2024: "Practice anytime and anywhere" with Vox's amPlug 3 range of 7 classic bass and guitar amp-cloning headphone amps

"Reinvented" range aims for classic AC30 sounds, boutique vibes, versatile bass tones and more

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An A&R guy once walked into the studio and told Steve Vai to remove all the pinch harmonics from a record because they sounded “like a dying whale”

"And I said, ‘F**k you!’ ...Well, in so many words"

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“I didn’t want to have anything to do with the song. To me, it was like: ‘Are we turning into Depeche Mode?’”: Europe’s John Norum says he thought The Final Countdown was “dreadful” at first

It would go on to become the Swedish rockers’ biggest track but Norum took some persuading that all those synths would work with guitar

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My favourite album of the year: MusicRadar’s writers name their top records of 2023

Here’s what we’ve been listening to most over the past 12 months

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How to gift plugins to a musician this Christmas

Giving the gift of music software this Christmas is a breeze when you know how - here's everything you need to know

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How Gary Numan's unexpected discovery of the Minimoog paved the way for The Pleasure Principle and the birth of synth-pop: "I just pressed a key and it made that famous Moog sound, that low growl and the room vibrated. It was the most powerful thing"

"I was trying to prove that electronic music was valid in its own right"

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The Edge confirms his switch from amps to Universal Audio's UAFX pedals for U2's Las Vegas Sphere shows: "It's a case of high-level complexity to make it sound simple"

Even better than the real thing? The U2 guitarist reveals to MusicRadar what he's using

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Black Friday studio headphone deals 2024: The biggest studio headphone savings from across the internet that are still live

Grab yourself big savings on Focal, Beyerdynamic, Shure, AKG and more this Black Friday

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Cherry Audio Novachord + Solovox review

It doesn’t get much more vintage than Cherry Audio’s latest, as virtual valves are warmed up, and two legacy synths unite in one package

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Chris Lake on AI: "Huge benefits are going to come from AI, but it really needs regulation. The ways it can be abused are far beyond what most people understand"

The world-conquering house producer weighed in on the AI debate in a recent MusicRadar interview: "The possibilities are scary"

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Bernie Marsden’s vintage guitar gear is officially now up for sale via ATB Guitars’ Reverb store

The Beast might be staying at the Marsden residence but his ’52 Gold Top, ’61 Telecaster Custom and ’64 ES-345 TDSV are stunning and available now

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Toneworks Catalyst review

Bored of programming via the piano roll? Try jazzing up your riffs with this inventive step sequencer that can host VST instruments

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Shred a dirty word? Nita Strauss says it’s a compliment: “I like it. Give me the shred term all day long”

Hurricane Nita says live and let shred – if you want to go over the top and split the fretboard atom, don't let anyone stop you

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Show Us Your Studio #5: "There's an immediacy with synths and guitars you just don't get with the PC"

Disabled composer Paul Jelfs talks us through his accessible studio set-up and highlights the challenges faced by music-makers with disabilities

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UJAM Beatmaker Circuits review

Ever wanted to create classic drum machine and vintage drum grooves but don’t have the know-how? We may have just the thing…

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Show Us Your Studio #4: "I'm a huge fan of Arturia's gear - The KeyStep Pro really changed how I look at production"

This week on Show Us Your Studio, Parsoa Khorsand invites us into his music-making space and waxes lyrical about the KeyStep Pro

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“Everything is hard on guitar” – Matteo Mancuso explains why guitar is one of the hardest instruments to learn

The Italian fingerstyle virtuoso makes it all look so easy, but take heart, he too has suffered, and he has some practice advice to share with us all

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Millennium Rookie review

An extremely affordable electronic drum set aimed at smaller players

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Show Us Your Studio #1: This modular madhouse is giving us serious gear envy

We kick off our weekly peek into our readers' home studios with Yann Le Vot's absolute beast of a set-up...

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Show Us Your Studio: Share your home studio and get featured on MusicRadar

Calling all musicians, producers and bedroom beatmakers! We're giving you the chance to show off your set-up to the world

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