Social Distortion’s Mike Ness on Kicking Cancer, New Album, and Learning to Love Oasis

Social Distortion's Mike Ness on overcoming cancer to make new album 'Born to Kill,' the visceral reaction he has toward ICE, and loving Tom Petty.

Converge’s Kurt Ballou on mixing pedals with amp modelers, guitar recording hacks and reclaiming metal’s authenticity

Fifth album Love is Not Enough sees the producer-guitarist embracing modern gear while opposing modern music’s “data-entry” trends – and returning to a jam space filled with Christmas lights and Iron ...
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Behringer clones the Lovetone Ring Stinger, a cult classic ring mod/fuzz pedal heard on Radiohead's Kid A

A favourite of Johnny Marr, Billy Corgan and Kurt Vile, Ring Stinger has also been known to reside on Radiohead guitarist Ed O'Brien's pedalboard, and is responsible for taking Thom Yorke's vocals to ...
IEEE

Pruned Volterra-Based Distortion Mitigation of High-Speed GaN Micro-LEDs for Energy-Efficient Optical Communication

Abstract: High-speed micro light-emitting diodes (LEDs) are attractive candidates for optical communications (OC) due to their wide bandwidth and energy efficiency. However, their strong nonlinear ...
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Tim McGraw Announces 33-Date 'Pawn Shop Guitar' Summer Tour

Tim McGraw is picking up the band and heading back out onto the blacktop. The country singer announced Feb. 3 that he’ll launch a sprawling 33-date North American summer tour in 2026, kicking things ...
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Native Instruments Guitar Rig Pro – Professional Guitar Effects Suite

Native Instruments Guitar Rig is a professional-grade virtual guitar effects processor and amp simulation software. It offers an extensive collection of amplifiers, cabinets, effects, and routing ...
IEEE

Universal Rate-Distortion-Perception Representations for Lossy Compression

Abstract: In the context of lossy compression, Blau and Michaeli adopt a mathematical notion of perceptual quality and define the information rate-distortion-perception function, generalizing the ...