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Gear4music BlogGearShure MV6 Gen 2 vs. Gen 1 – Is It Time to Upgrade? If you're in the market for a new microphone for your gaming or podcasting setup, you may have heard of the new Shure MV6 Gen 2.

11.11

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Gear4music BlogGearCubase 16 Review — The Latest Version of Steinberg’s Comprehensive DAW Cubase has been a staple of music production for decades, building its reputation on powerful MIDI editing, recording, and mixing tools.

11.06

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Gear4music BlogGearThe Ultimate Guide to the Drums Used in Hip-Hop In this guide, we'll explore the drums used in hip-hop, the classic sounds that shaped the genre, and the equipment and techniques behind today's distinctive beats.

11.04

Gear4music BlogGearWhat is a Lavalier Microphone? A Complete Guide With the rise of content creators and video content, it's common to see people ditching the handheld mic in favour of a smaller, hands-free version.

10.28

Gear4music BlogGearLine 6 Helix Stadium XL Review – A New Era for Live Guitar Rigs? With new Agoura amp modelling, Proxy capture technology, and Showcase performance automation, the Stadium XL promises far more than great guitar tones.

10.22

Gear4music BlogGearWhy Was Taylor Hawkins Such an Iconic Drummer? Listen to Taylor Hawkins’ drums on any number of Foo Fighters tracks, and you'll hear just how much personality he brought to the band. So, what was it that made Hawkins such a brilliant drummer?

10.09

Gear4music BlogGearThe History of the Dreadnought Guitar So, what is a dreadnought? Where does the name come from? Why should we care? Read on, because we’re about to tell you all about the history of the dreadnought guitar!

10.02

Gear4music BlogGearUniversal Audio Volt Gen 2 vs. Gen 1 – What’s Changed? The Universal Audio Volt Gen 2 series comes with a range of major upgrades, including the onboard Smart Display, Auto-Gain, and other tools to streamline your workflow.

10.01

Gear4music BlogGearA Guide to Roger Taylor’s Drums – The Instruments Behind Queen’s Sound Queen. We all know the name. With huge global hits and millions of records sold, the band became one of the biggest names in rock, developing a sound built for packed arenas and stadiums.

09.25

Gear4music BlogGear13 Actors Who Learnt a Musical Instrument for a Role In this article, we’re looking at actors who learned a musical instrument for a role, from Bill Murray tackling Rachmaninoff to Riz Ahmed taking on metal drumming.

09.17

Three pins, and nearly every signal in this business passes through them.

The magazine is named after the cable: the microphone in the booth, the line to the desk, the DMX run that fires the lights. Studio, stage and rig share the same cable. Most magazines pick one of the three. This one covers all of it, because the people we read do too — the engineer mixing a record on Tuesday is on front of house by Saturday.

More than three hundred sources, in sixteen languages: makers and their release notes, reviewers who put a hand on the thing, studios and touring crews, the producers and collectives surfacing this month and the scenes they came out of. Synths and modular, plugins and DAWs, guitars and drums, microphones, monitors, PA and lighting. What the trade is talking about is counted and plotted. The editor's letter has just started; it will find its rhythm.

For each story: a headline, a short excerpt, one picture and the link out. We never reprint the article, and the picture belongs to the maker or the photographer. A German review appears in German and a Japanese one in Japanese, as the writer published it; the link goes to the original.

Nothing is sold on this site. When a link leads to a shop, it is the maker's shop, not ours.