Cranked to eleven!

Say the word ‘amplifier’ to a musician and it probably conjures up images of cranked-up Marshall stacks lining the back of some stadium rock stage set. But far from being the sole preserve of six-string gods and goddesses, guitar amps can be essential tools for electronic musicians too. Whether in the form of a miked-up stack or one of the multitude of impressive amp sims on the market, an amplified treatment can be just the thing to add bite and character to your mixes. In this issue’s cover feature, starting on page 26, we show you how.

This issue also sees the launch of our brand new tutorial regular, Toolkit, in which we go in-depth on everything you need to know about analogue-style compression. This and more is available to download from the FM Vault, where you’ll also find 10GB of killer royalty-free samples from the FM archive. Head to vault.futuremusic.co.uk and get downloading!