John Clay from the London band Colossus talks us through their new album ‘The Sea’. Firstly, thank you to God is in the TV for inviting us to do a ‘track by track’ breakdown of our album, The Sea. All ...

Second record All That Is Over sees the Irish group adding new sounds, avoiding scales, and continuing to confuse sound techs with their eccentric approach to gear ...

Fender’s cross-platform Studio is hyper-focused on easy recording and the guitarist via an integrated amp simulator. It’s a handy, albeit limited app for any of those pesky guit-fiddlers in your life.

It’s in the tight confines of a spare room in his Los Angeles home that singer-songwriter Dijon Duenas, known professionally as just Dijon, constructed his 2021 debut, Absolutely, a delicate patchwork ...

A couple of years ago, popular YouTube guitar nerd Paul Davids visited a nuclear power station in search of the ultimate guitar reverb. Now an effects pedal inspired by these sonic discoveries has ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Johnny Echols, lead guitarist for the 1960s rock band Love, is a fount of stories. In a podcast interview with ...

Every electric guitarist should have a few pedals in their arsenal to help shape their instrument's tone, boost its dynamics or sonic capabilities, or perform practical duties to ensure they always ...

Fractal Audio puts its Axe-Fx III effects in a conveniently sized stage-ready floor unit – could it be the only effects unit ...

Best-in-class reverb algorithms. Incredibly deep sound design tools. Works with any instrument. Huge selection of very usable presets. Expensive. Requires a decent amount of menu diving if you're not ...

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