4+ day, 14+ hour ago   (356+ words) Mixdown Magazine Paul Jackson Jr. breaks down the hits he played on, with This Is How I Did It The session legend behind Thriller, Bad and Random Access Memories walks through his original parts in a new series, captured on…...

5+ day, 12+ hour ago   (233+ words) Mixdown Magazine Celemony’s Tonalic plugin puts Paul Kleber’s bass in your DAW Where his earlier sets were aimed at jazz and swing, Kleber's new lines are built for hip-hop and pop, and lock in with the drums already in the…...

5+ day, 15+ hour ago   (209+ words) Troy Van Leeuwen’s second Fender signature swaps the Jazzmaster for something a little more paranormal– with twice the strings. Built around the Queens of the Stone Age guitarist’s taste for shimmer, texture and layered harmonics, the Squier Paranormal Troy Van…...

6+ day, 15+ hour ago   (342+ words) Mixdown Magazine Roland marks 10 years of The Future. Redefined. The Then. Now. Next. campaign runs through September and October, pairing a look back at the 2016 livestream with more than a dozen new products across Roland and BOSS. Roland is marking…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (358+ words) Mixdown Magazine Now shipping: SOMA’s Enigma, the synth you play with coins and screws An experimental instrument from SOMA Laboratory reads metal objects placed on its surface, turning their size, shape and position into sound. SOMA Laboratory’s Enigma is now…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (157+ words) The Fender Custom Shop has recreated the sunburst Bass VI George Harrison played through the back end of the Beatles years, building a limited edition of the 1967 original in its Corona workshop in California. Harrison bought the Bass VI in…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago   (192+ words) The guitar Fender shipped in 1951 with a blank headstock is back, and now on Australian shop floors. The 75th Anniversary American Vintage II 1951 Nocaster leads a four-model expansion of Fender’s 75th Anniversary Collection, and as of August the reissue and three Player…...