Best distortion pedals 2023: our pick of the top gain stages for guitar
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Best online piano lessons 2023: Apps, websites and software for piano players
Learn to master music theory and play your favourite piano songs over the internet from the comfort of your home
Synchro Arts' Revoice Pro 5 promises to make complex vocal editing easy
Pro 5's new SmartPitch feature automatically corrects pitch across multiple vocal takes simultaneously
9 of the best new bits of studio gear in 2023
The speakers, interfaces, effects and essentials you need in your studio
6 of the best new DAWs in 2023
Ableton, Bitwig, Logic and FL Studio all received major updates this year, but who'll take our crown?
St Pancras State of Mind: Alicia Keys becomes the latest big-name musician to play the public piano at London station
The global star delighted onlookers with a selection of her greatest hits
6 AI-powered plugins that can help you make music
The right AI tools for composing melodies, creating beats, mixing your tracks and delivering a pro master
Best bass strings 2023: vintage and modern string sets for every style and budget
Breathe some fresh life into your bass with our pick of the best bass strings on the market
"Status Quo locked Spandau Ballet in the toilets": The story behind the recording of Band Aid's Do They Know It's Christmas?
"I had to record all these vocals and mix the record that night. It was a 24-hour gig": the recording engineer behind the first great charity record reveals all
What’s the biggest selling electronic music gear of 2023, we hear you ask? Reverb has the answer and it might not surprise you…
Teenage Engineering dominates, with the OP-1 topping the overall and used charts once again
Jacob Collier and his mum turn up the “Home Alone warmth” with a moving rendition of John Williams’ Somewhere In My Memory
Give it a listen, ya filthy animals
"Hotel California is six minutes, the intro is a minute long, it stops in the middle with no drums, and you've got a two-minute guitar solo at the end. It's the absolute wrong format for a single" – Don Felder on the story of an Eagles classic
Song stories: "I've never been so delighted to have been wrong in my whole life"
Build your dream home pedalboard: take a deep dive into the collection of pedals we feel add up to the ultimate home rig
From reverbs and delay to IR loaders and loopers these are the pedals we are choosing for our perfect home pedalboard
How to gift plugins to a musician this Christmas
Giving the gift of music software this Christmas is a breeze when you know how - here's everything you need to know
The bad, the good and the ugly: How AudioPilz's meme-fuelled Bad Gear became YouTube's funniest music tech series
Florian Pilz joins us to talk about his rise to YouTube stardom and pick out five of his baddest bits of "bad gear"
The SoundForce SFC-08 could be the most affordable route to owning a ‘hardware’ Oberheim OB-X, though you’ll need to bring your own synth plugin
This bespoke MIDI controller looks like a beauty
8 of the best new plugins in 2023
Gear of the Year continues with our round-up of the finest soft synths, effects processors and mixing tools that 2023 had to offer
HeadRush rolls out FRFR MKII powered speakers, “voiced for accurate, linear delivery of amplifier and cab emulations” to get the best out your amp modeller
The MKII FRFR-108 and FRFR-112 pair 8" and 12" woofers respectively with a 1" high-frequency compression driver, are Bluetooth-enabled and can be used as a wedge or mounted
The Strymon Cloudburst is the top-selling new pedal on Reverb in 2023, but overall Boss is still… the boss!
An old-timer distortion pedal comes out fighting this year
An £85 short-scale S-style with a HSS pickup configuration, Harley Benton’s ST-Junior HSS SBK Standard Series might be the ultimate beginner electric guitar
The latest edition to Harley Benton's budget-friendly Standard Series is compact, friendly to growing hands, dirt cheap, has a super-versatile pickup configuration and looks pretty smart too
