Best of 2023: Troy Van Leeuwen checks in from The End Of Nero Tour to talk fuzz favourites, filling in for Dave Navarro in Jane's Addiction, and why no one pedal alone can recreate Queens Of The Stone Age's guitar tone
Best of 2023: What could have been: featuring The Rolling Stones, Guns N' Roses, Beatles, Van Halen, The Doors, Led Zeppelin and more
Grohl's drawings show you how to party like it's 1989
“That’s what we’re doing right now; that is an Al McKay kind of guitar part from Earth Wind and Fire, played on the Nile Rodgers sound”
One man's trash is another man's drum sample
Positive Reptile's music-making terrarium brings the rainforest into the studio
If you only download one free plugin this season, we reckon you should make it this one
Including the guitar solo of the year
Equally at home on the stage or in the studio, our pick of the best dynamic microphones deserve a place on any musician’s wishlist
Joseph Chung and Joseph Abella’s fusion of dubstep, trance and techno has found favour with millions of listeners globally
Just Another Rainbow is confirmed for January 5
A dash of reverb can make or break the sound of your mix so careful selection is key for getting the right spatial qualities
Creating an interesting synth lead for an arpeggiated hook in your track isn’t difficult. We just glide ’n’ rise!
Sometimes we want to add tight space to sounds, and this technique provides an excellent stand-in for reverb
Like the sound your compressor adds but want to retain some of the original signal’s sound? This technique could be for you
Sometimes you want a bass sound that not only occupies the bottom end, but provides some major harmony. We’ve got both for the price of 1!
This new stock plugin is the best thing about Logic 10.8. Let's break some beats!
Remembering an often underrated guitarist
Tired of wading through sample libraries to fulfil your soundtracking needs? Let SkyWaves bring you ashore
UFX contains just about every en vogue feature a 2023 reverb needs. Is it the FX for U? We need a little space…
A 25th-anniversary edition offset that looks to celebrate everything great about the value-centric Harley Benton brand
The middle ground between tradition and Acoustasonic?
Here lies a Holy Grail, an op-amp distortion that promises Queens Of The Stone Age guitar tones from one compact stompbox. Is it too good to be true?
A wonderful and well-featured preamp partner for tones, but with some notable omissions on the usability side
