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INSANE: 5 | Vintage Vibes

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 2025: 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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70 years on: Remembering Django Reinhardt, the Gypsy jazz trailblazer who triumphed over adversity and changed guitar forever

George Benson says it was his swing. Peter Frampton says it was his soul. John Jorgenson says he was the first to play the impossible. What made Reinhardt so special?

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Polyphia’s Tim Henson offered Tosin Abasi $1,000 to teach him thump guitar

In a quest for self-improvement, Henson reached out to Abasi for lessons on the Animals As Leaders guitarist’s groundbreaking percussive thumping technique

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Feist says she gave up on GarageBand because ‘they made it more like Pro Tools”, and now records using iZotope’s Spire instead

“I used it for years and they kind of just made it more complicated, and I didn’t have the will to figure it out,” the Canadian musician admits

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Rhodes V8

The Rhodes is back! The new Mk8 electric piano is now joined by the V8 software, with plenty of surprises under the virtual Rhodes lid

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Is Nuno Bettencourt one of the top three guitar players in the world? Prince thought so

Bettencourt said performing for Prince was terrifying but he left an almighty impression on the Purple One

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Nuno Bettencourt says rock songs are “nursery rhymes for adults” and explains his theory for adding depth to simple arrangements

The Extreme guitarist says that if we want to make rock with big ideas it all comes down to what he calls “simplexity”

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