Saadiq has collaborated with Elton John, Beyoncé, Erykah Badu, Tupac, Mary J Blige and more, and his signature model is one sweet-sounding limited edition Telecaster

Keyboard Magazine

12 mars, 19:13

“These three new pedals dip into Keeley’s decades of experience in modding classic circuits”: Keeley Electronics unveils the 4-in-1 Series, offering legendary drive and distortion in hybrid configurations

What do you get if you cross a DS-1 with a Civil War Big Muff, a Blues Breaker with an OCD, and a RAT with an SD-1? (The Angry Orange, Blues Disorder and Super Rodent of course, three super-versatile dirt pedals)

Keyboard Magazine

12 mars, 18:22

"This isn't just a piece of equipment; it connects me with my dad”: Universal Audio’s Bill Putnam Jr confirms that he’s bought the classic Caesars Palace console that was built by his father and used to mix Frank Sinatra and Judy Garland

Start spreading the news - it’s coming home to UA

Keyboard Magazine

12 mars, 17:12

iZotope takes Trash out of the trash and relaunches fan-favourite distortion plugin with free Lite version

The new version of Trash has been equipped with an envelope follower and a 'scream filter', along with a redesigned interface and parameter randomization

Keyboard Magazine

12 mars, 17:12

“The Nomads can get super heavy without any unwanted spikiness, but also respect the original early ‘50s tele tones”: Rabea Massaad and Bare Knuckle team-up again for signature Telecaster pickup set

Massaad’s Nomad single-coils are for the Telecaster player that wants to split the difference between modern high-gain and clean and classic

Keyboard Magazine

12 mars, 17:02

5 ways to change tempo in your DJ set: "Big tempo changes can lift a dance floor, surprise your audience, or help you perform a reset"

Want to change tempo mid-set without it sounding like a mistake? Read on…

Keyboard Magazine

12 mars, 16:23

“This definitely needs Moog bass”: Watch Snarky Puppy keyboard player Justin Stanton jamming over just the vocals and drums of Dua Lipa’s Don’t Start Now, a song he’s never heard before

It’s fair to say that he takes it in a very different direction

Keyboard Magazine

12 mars, 14:59

"This is an excellent, well-made and incredibly easy-to-use system": Bose S1 Pro+ PA system review

A slick, lightweight and powerful PA System with a hidden weapon

Keyboard Magazine

12 mars, 14:37

“Striking limited edition reissues of the very first ES-335”: Gibson celebrates its 130th Anniversary with the Custom Shop, Murphy Lab-aged 1958 ES-335 Reissue

Fat '58 neck profiles, unbound fingerboards, tons of mojo, and just 130 units of each, this is a bona-fide call to action for guitar collectors with a soft spot for Gibson's legendary semi-hollow

Keyboard Magazine

12 mars, 14:33

"If you put those time limits on things, you're never gonna get to where you want to be": Joe Bonamassa has some solid advice for any musician working to be successful but doubting themselves

Anyone who thinks they might be 'past it' needs to hear this

Keyboard Magazine

12 mars, 13:01

Roland’s new premium digital pianos look like uprights, but are designed to sound and play like acoustic grands

LX-9, LX-6 and LX-5 use a range of technologies to make them feel mighty real

Keyboard Magazine

12 mars, 12:49

“He didn’t just work here; he lived and embodied the spirit of the brand”: Mike Lewis, legendary head of the Fender Custom Shop, has died

Lewis had toured with Chuck Berry and the Rolling Stones, and owned a guitar store before joining Fender in 1991, and his attention to detail was such that he once gave a '59 Gretsch an actual MRI and CAT scan

Keyboard Magazine

12 mars, 12:33

“It was the tune that changed everything” for Noel Gallagher and Oasis, with his greatest guitar solo – but it turns out that Live Forever got a serious guitar edit in the control room

'It was essentially the same solo that’s on the finished version Noel always plays live, but when it went high on the second half all I could think of was Slash in leather kecks with a wind machine on the Grand Canyon'

Keyboard Magazine

12 mars, 11:53

World Party and The Waterboys star Karl Wallinger has died, aged 66

Waterboys' leader Mike Scott leads tributes, writing 'You are one of the finest musicians I've ever known'

Keyboard Magazine

12 mars, 08:59

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“It was just another riff, like Into The Fire. We didn’t make a big deal out of it and it wasn’t being considered as a track for the album": Ian Gillan on the unlikely success story of writing and recording Deep Purple's Smoke On The Water

'The downdraft from the mountains caused the smoke to blow across Lake Geneva, like a film set or dry ice on a stage show. At this point, Roger wrote the words ‘smoke on the water’ on a napkin”

Keyboard Magazine

11 mars, 19:21

“Evolving tones that can be finely controlled or left to their own devices”: Erica Synths Hexinverter Mindphaser review

We toast the new incarnation of a Hexinverter staple some thought would never again see the light

Keyboard Magazine

11 mars, 18:22

10 mistakes every DJ makes: "DJing is a job and you’re likely better at it when you’re not incapacitated"

From overindulging to peaking too early, how many of these common DJing faux pas have you made?

Keyboard Magazine

11 mars, 16:32

What would the Nintendo Switch look like if it was designed by Teenage Engineering? Possibly something like this

As the world waits for the announcement of the Switch 2, say hello to the XP-1…