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Electric guitars & amps · 109 stories, +51 vs last week

Electric guitars & amps: 109 stories in seven days, +51 on the week before.

GuitarsThe Only Time Brian May 'Uncharacteristically' Smashed A Guitar, During Queen's 1982 Hot Space Tour [News] Ultimate Guitar

Guitars“I modified The Edge’s Strat and he got this magic music out of it. Even I never thought of using it that way”: The fabled Infinite Guitar saved one of U2’s biggest hits. But why did Michael Brook’s invention never go into production? Guitar World

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Ultimate GuitarGuitarsThe Only Time Brian May 'Uncharacteristically' Smashed A Guitar, During Queen's 1982 Hot Space Tour [News] Gear : The wreckage disappeared for nearly 20 years before resurfacing and getting reassembled, not repaired, by luthier Andrew Guyton in 2006.

DJ MagLive & DJAI ‘artists’ set to perform ‘live’ at first AI Music Awards in Los Angeles The creators behind each AI “artist” will be “directing the stage”, according to organisers SIQA

DJ MagLive & DJRoland announces AI-assisted melody-generation plug-in, Melody Flip Designed to work as a "music creation partner” for generating ideas

Bedroom Producers BlogDAW & pluginsHakuna Audio releases FREE Hakunizer one-knob enhancer plugin Hakuna Audio has released Hakunizer, a free one-knob enhancer plugin for macOS and Windows. The workflow immediately reminded me of Image-Line’s old Soundgoodizer.

Guitar WorldGuitars“I modified The Edge’s Strat and he got this magic music out of it. Even I never thought of using it that way”: The fabled Infinite Guitar saved one of U2’s biggest hits. But why did Michael Brook’s invention never go into production? Revisit the opening bars of U2’s 1987 Billboard-topping ballad With Or Without You . There’s a music-box chime. A heartbeat bassline . A soft but purposeful beat.

Bedroom Producers BlogDAW & pluginsModeAudio Quiet Piano Ambient Loops: Cinematic upright piano samples ModeAudio has released the Quiet Piano Ambient Loops, a collection of 833MB worth of royalty-free music loops and MIDI.

Bedroom Producers BlogDAW & pluginsGet Safari Audio Time Machine FREE in UJAM collaboration Safari Audio and UJAM have teamed up to give Time Machine away for free to UJAM users for a limited time.

Ultimate GuitarGuitarsBill Kelliher Admits Brent Hinds Leaving Mastodon Felt 'Like A Big Weight Had Been Lifted': 'He Was A Great Guitar Player, But It Was Difficult To Write With Him' [News] Music News : "I was doing the lion's share of the writing, but I always had to think, 'Is Brent gonna like this?' And pretty soon, he didn't like anything that we would come up with."

MusicRadarGear“No plugins, no compressors, no gates… I don’t know how I did it!”: Underworld reflect on how they made their most breathtaking album Released a scant few months ahead of the track that would make them household names , 1996 album Second Toughest in the Infants found Underworld’s second-line up (Rick Smith, Darren Emerson and Karl…

Mixmag AsiaAsiaDaft Punk's Guy-Manuel and Travis Scott team up on GTA VI soundtrack 'RHYNO' is one of six original tracks shared ahead of the release of 'Grand Theft Auto VI: The Album'

Production ExpertStudios & prosHow Audio Freelancers Can Fix Cash Flow Problems In 2026 Take a breath. Not figuratively, I mean. Take a deep breath and hold it. I wonder how long you can hold it for before you let out a gasp.

Guitar PlayerGuitarsEd Sheeran breaks his silence on Gaza after tour controversy: “I cannot hide how I feel about it anymore” Ed Sheeran apologized to fans at his Philadelphia concert Saturday night, acknowledging that he had made “mistakes” in his response to the controversy that has engulfed his tour and speaking publicly…

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Around a hundred and sixty sources, in English, Japanese, Spanish, German, French, Chinese and Italian: makers and their release notes, reviewers who put a hand on the thing, studios and touring crews, the producers and collectives surfacing this month and the scenes they came out of. Synths and modular, plugins and DAWs, guitars and drums, microphones, monitors, PA and lighting. What the trade is talking about is counted and plotted. The editor's letter has just started; it will find its rhythm.

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