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Decapitator Review: Why We Always Come Back To Soundtoys Saturation Plugin

Is it too late for a Soundtoys Decapitator review and spew out my thoughts on this GOAT’d plugin!? I 10000% don’t think so, because there are certain plugins that keep finding their way into producer sessions year after year, and Soundtoys Decapitator is one of those tools that I have seen come up a

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NYC Street Named for Jimi Hendrix After 56-Year Petition

Jimi Hendrix Way sits just down the street from the guitarist’s legendary Electric Lady Studios

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25 Essential Tips For Making Jungle That I’ve Learned From Interviewing Hundreds Of Artists

Jungle and drum and bass production can feel intimidating because the music demands speed, control, taste, and restraint all at once, but a few tips for making jungle can go a long way to help you dial in the sound you’re after. The drums need to move fast without getting messy, the low end needs [.

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Love Synthesizers Brings FIRST LOVE To Synth Symposium Through Roberta Dimana

Love Synthesizers is returning to Synth Symposium 2026 in Sofia, Bulgaria through artist ambassador Roberta Dimana, who will represent the Icelandic synth company across the June 20 and 21 event. The Love Synthesizers team will not attend in person this year, so Dimana will be the one putting FIRST

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OddKidOut Turns Vinyl Digging Into A Live Production Session For Minimal Audio’s Listening Room

OddKidOut’s episode of Minimal Audio’s Listening Room puts the focus where it probably should be for a producer like him: records, samples, drums, bass, instinct, and the weird little moments that happen when someone has to build an idea in real time. The setup is simple. He is in the Minimal Audio

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Slow Pulp Announce Third Album Melodie, Share “Better Man”: Stream

The record features songwriting from multiple band members and thrilling new production from an outside player. Slow Pulp Announce Third Album Melodie, Share “Better Man”: Stream Kiana Fitzgerald

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“A natural fit for industrial, techno, noise and experimental electronic music”: Erica Synths Xenodrive review

Can the latest desktop effects box from the Erica Synths and 112dB partnership deliver full-flavoured distortion with depth?

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Billy Ray Cyrus Prepping First Album in Seven Years

The country singer's 17th studio album, The Hill, is due out on June 16.

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Open Mike Eagle and Kenny Segal Team for New Album Doomed!

“Every one of Kenny’s beats is a chunk of ore from a different comet”

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After Divorces, Vocal Paralysis & Family Drama, Billy Ray Cyrus Prepping First Album in Seven Years: ‘Been to Hell and Back a Couple of Times’

The country singer's 17th studio album, The Hill, is due out on June 16.

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Open Mike Eagle and Kenny Segal Team for New Album Doomed!

“Every one of Kenny’s beats is a chunk of ore from a different comet”

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Is Synplant 2's new prompt-based patch generator the future of synthesis?

Describe a sound, texture or instrument, and Synplant's new PhenoType feature will attempt to recreate it using the synth's text-to-patch sound engine

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Sennheiser HD 480 Pro Headphones Review

Sennheiser's new cans offer reliable low-end translation that goes where your studio monitors can't

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“For engineers mixing on small studio monitors, these will be a huge asset for checking the bass and sub bass”: Sennheiser HD 480 Pro review

Sennheiser's new cans offer reliable low-end translation that goes where your studio monitors can't

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Duetti expands with acquisitions of newer tracks and remix program

Duetti’s business providing funding for independent musicians is well established, but now it is expanding its horizons in two ways. First, it is lowering its “acquisision age threshold” for recordings. No, that doesn’t mean it’s seeking out toddler songwriters. It will now be looking to acquire cat

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The Genesis of Pulse Music Group

Pulse Music Group's Co-CEOs take us back through a series of near-misses across the streets, studios, and open houses of Los Angeles – before their paths finally collided over a half-shared chicken p

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“The violin bow was laying on the floor of the studio. Just to be class clown, I picked it up and tried to emulate Jimmy Page from The Song Remains The Same”: How The Cult created their classic signature song

“The words give hope, which marries well with the uplifting nature of the music”

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Woodkid explains how his “dangerous” ‘Assassin’s Creed: Black Flag’ remix came together

The French musician has given the classic sea shanty ‘Leave Her Johnny’ a modern makeover

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5 Songs with Questionable Mixes

From Burial to the Red Hot Chili Peppers, we examine five examples of unconventional and rule-breaking mixing that resonated with listeners

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"The more you look at it like some tech-boy producer, the less you get it": 5 great songs with questionable mixes

From Burial to the Red Hot Chili Peppers, we examine five examples of unconventional and rule-breaking mixing that resonated with listeners