Classic Steve Albini interview: "Lots of people in my position are opposed to the home-recording of music"
Acclaimed studio engineer and musician Steve Albini has died aged 61
The Shellac guitarist and vocalist recorded bands including Nirvana, Sonic Youth, PJ Harvey and Manic Street Preachers
With Winehouse's biopic in the cinemas, we put her best-loved song under the musical microscope
Auto Gain, Loopback and Reamping features are also in the mix
Co-writer Espen Lind on how he got the ukulele back into the charts – after saving the song with it
"For them it was business as usual"
How extreme stress birthed the iconic heart of John 'Cougar' Mellencamp's smash hit
"It’s amazing what you can do if you’re put on the spot", said Luthier Dave Rusan
Yep, that’s right: she’s never seen Back To The Future
In the next edition of an ongoing series exploring why music-makers choose their DAWs, Rob Speight talks us through the reasons behind his predilection for Pro Tools
It’s a Minimoog, but not as you know it
"It’s funny because we sound like a really bad tribute band for the first three or four run-throughs on these things"
Try these '70s rock-inspired chord shapes for size and then use them to play along to our backing track
Use music theory and programming tricks to take your low-end up a notch
The best of Foo
Use the hard-tuning effect on vocals with this step-by-step tutorial
First impressions count – especially with solos!
Create the Prismizer vocal effect in your DAW with this step-by-step tutorial
Pride (In The Name Of Badd4)
Playing a mono synth demands a different technique to conventional keyboard playing. Here's how...
Is Ample more than just a greatest hits package from the AS back catalogue? We reach for the pins
Like a fine wine, Steinberg Nuendo just keeps getting better with age – if only we all could look so good after 24 years!
From the makers of the infamous Auto-Tune comes a vocal reverb plugin with added AI. Do you believe in reverb love after love?
Recreating a classic (though not very obvious) ARP synth with characteristic aplomb. We get Axxess all areas…
It’s hard to resist another seminal classic from Cherry Audio but at a bargain price of zero, are they selling themselves short?
Arturia’s mighty V Collection reaches generation X, but now its focus is not just on classic keyboards but new ones too
The revived drum brand is turning its attention to the most important drum in your setup, and you can snare yourself a bargain
Deftly side-stepping the subscription saga, we spent some quality time with Minimal Audio’s dexterous flagship. Here’s our findings…