You could get over £8,000 of Warm Audio microphones for under £200 in this unbelievable Reverb dealBOO! It’s almost Halloween, and Reverb is offering up some scarily good deals to celebrate. The Fall Into Gears sale sees up to 60% off across plenty of top-quality tech – but you better hurry, since it’s only running until 3 November.
The savings aren’t too shabby, either. A limited Platinum edition of the KORG opsix SE is a whopping 50% off. The opsix SE came as a revolutionary upgrade on the opsix FM, and the £861.19 makes the KORG synth a total steal.

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Moog’s collaboration with Geddy Lee has also had a massive £1,096 cut off the price, now sitting at just £3,209.12. Lee’s MiniMoog Model D is hand signed by the Rush legend himself, as well as having the band’s signature Starman badge on the front and back. The synth also comes with an exclusive red 10 inch vinyl, as well as an exclusive poster.
If you’re not sure exactly what you’re interested in buying, the Reverb sale also has the perfect deal for you. Warm Audio has prepared a slew of Microphone Mystery Boxes, each containing one microphone from across Warm Audio’s vast selection of mics.
The box is just £195.72, and you could get anything from a humble, reliable Jr Series right up to the company’s marvellous flagship WA-8000.
While the deal is already pretty enticing, one buyer will get a very, very special Mystery Box. The ‘grand prize’ box will be filled with all 13 of the possible microphones, which totals up to over £8,000 – not too bad when the box costs under £200!
Head over to Reverb to find more Fall Into Gear Sales Event deals. The sale will run until 3 November.
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Musicians Guide To Facebook (2025 Edition)Is Facebook still worth it for artists? Yes - if you lean into what the platform now rewards: real conversation, short-form video, and smart, low-budget ads that funnel fans to owned channels.
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Live Music Industry News: UK levy • NIVA Summit • NY Ticket Fees • Bandsintown • TicketmasterIn the latest live music industry news, support for a levy to support UK grassroots venues is growing. The UK government endorses the plan as do many artists and most of the live music industry. Notably silent is Live Nation.
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Vitling releases Crypt, a FREE hyper-unison synth for macOS and Windows
Developer Vitling has released Crypt, a free hyper-unison synth for macOS and Windows. When it comes to free effects and instruments, being spoiled for choice is never a complaint, but we are lucky to have so many outstanding options available to us. The problem (not that it’s an actual problem) with so many options is [...]
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Sonatura releases Superhet, a FREE experimental heterodyning synthesizer
Sonatura has released Superhet, a freeware experimental heterodyning synthesizer for digital audio workstations on Windows and macOS. There are probably thousands of plugins being developed every year, and most of them are reskinned, rehashed, and recycled versions of things we already have more than enough of—obviously, with a fair share of honorable exceptions. Today, we’ll [...]
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Austrian Audio announce the CC8-SC Unveiled at the AES 2025 show in Long Beach, California, the CC8-SC becomes the second pencil mic to join Austrian Audio’s line-up, and offers a supercardioid alternative to the existing CC8.

No reviews on your new album? #Marketing #Music

Why no one is reviewing your album or new releaseWhy is no one reviewing your album or new release? Music PR veteran Ariel Hyatt of Cyber PR looks at how streaming, new media economics and increased competition have changed how music should be marketed.
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USC class takes a deep dive into the art of the sample
Students at the University of Southern California got an inside look at what it really takes to break into sound design and music production.

Signing Stories: PsycropticDate Signed: May 2025

Label: Metal Blade Records

Band Members: Dave Haley, drums; Joe Haley, guitars; Jason Peppiatt, vocals; Jason Keyser, vocals; Todd Stern, bass

Type of Music: Tasmanian Death Metal

Booking: Liam Frith, TKO Booking

Publicity: Liz at Earsplit PR, liz@earsplitcompound.com

Web: psycroptic.com

A&R: Ryan Williams, Metal Blade

According to Todd Stern's philosophy on life, it was either kismet or merely good fortune that his Australian tech-death metal band, founded in 1999, found a home in arguably America’s best-regarded metal label, Metal Blade Records. Those with a contrary point of view might suggest that the band’s tireless efforts over more than a quarter-century of crushing it had something to do with the contract signing. Not only are they beloved in the “land down under,” Psycroptic have cultivated an American fanbase that resulted in them headlining multiple tours here.

“Mostly, we want to work alongside career bands that have stood the test of time and to have a close relationship with a label that believes [Psycroptic] still has plenty of room to grow,” Stern said. “It also doesn’t hurt to have a record label in our corner that has such a far reach and also the street cred to back it up. Plus it just feels like such a great fit.”

Getting into the nuts and bolts of Psycroptic’s signing to Metal Blade, Stern explained that they became free agents after their previous deal with Prosthetic Records ended, at which point they started working with TKO Booking Agent Liam Frith. 

“As we all started riffing ideas about what to do next as far as releasing a new record, new media ace [Ryan] Bart [Williams] at Metal Blade seemed to show interest and before we knew it there was an offer on the table,” Stern recalled.

It also didn’t hurt that Psycroptic are chums with a gaggle of acts on Metal Blade’s roster, including Black Dahlia Murder (for which Williams plays bass), Cannibal Corpse, Revocation, Goatwhore and The Red Chord.

“We’re very good friends with many bands that have called Metal Blade home forever, so naturally there were ‘consultations,’” Stern elaborated. “We’ve all been playing shows for ages, and it’s obviously common for recording artists to discuss the experiences that they’ve had over years.”

Shortly after Psycroptic’s signing to Metal Blade, they set loose a new song, “Architects of Extinction,” to be featured on their next record. It’s a long time coming, as the band’s last was 2022’s Divine Council.

“We just finished an amazing European Festival run that was really amazing for us,” Stern said in closing. “We’ll finish up the last touches on this new album, and then we’ll be ready to hit the ground running in 2026.”The post Signing Stories: Psycroptic first appeared on Music Connection Magazine.

US eyes quantum computing investments amid rising national security stakesWashington is considering direct investments in US quantum computing companies as it seeks to keep pace with China’s tech capabilities.

Trump credits Benioff, Huang for decision not to ‘surge’ Fed troops into San FranciscoTrump said he scrapped plans to send the National Guard into San Francisco after calls from Nvidia’s Jensen Huang and Salesforce’s Marc Benioff. Mayor Daniel Lurie confirmed the plan was canceled.

Spitfire Audio release Mervyn Warren Choir Mervyn Warren Choir captures the expressive power and unique timbre of the Black choir sound outside of a traditional gospel context, and delivers a versatile collection of vocals that lend themselves to everything from pop and R&B production to cinematic film, TV and game scoring.

A Logical Clock That Pretends To Be Analog[kcraske] had a simple plan for their clock build. They wanted a digital clock that was inspired by the appearance of an analog one, and they only wanted to use basic logic, with no microprocessors involved. Ultimately, they achieved just that.
Where today you might build a clock based around a microcontroller and a real-time clock module, or by querying a network time server, [kcraske] is doing all the timekeeping in simpler hardware. The clock is based around a bunch of 74-series logic chips, a CD4060 binary counter IC, and a 32.768 KHz crystal, which is easy to divide down to that critical 1 Hz. Time is displayed on the rings of LEDs around the perimeter of the clock—12 LEDs for hours, and 60 each for minutes and seconds. Inside the rings, the ICs that make up the clock are arranged in a pleasant radial configuration.
It’s a nice old-school build that reminds us not everything needs to run at 200 MHz or hook up to the internet to be worthwhile. We’ve featured some other fun old-school clocks of late, too. Meanwhile, if you’re cooking up your own arcane timepieces, we’d love to hear about it on the tipsline.

NEST Acoustics on sound design in Serum, the meaning of making music, and more
Expert producer and content creator NEST Acoustics shares insights into his sound design approach in Serum, perspectives on artistry, and more.