What are your favorite music kit magazines?

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When I played drums seriously, I read Modern Drummer, which was quite informative, but seemed to be in a timewarp (I am sure mr Rokket from Poison is quite adept but I didn't feel the need to read about him in 1996)...

When I got into synths I read Keyboard, but am now hooked on Sound on Sound. Are there any other ones worth checking out?

― Aaron Grossman (aajjgg), Saturday, 22 November 2003 20:30 (twenty-one years ago)

Computer Music is fantastic. Tons of free software, tutorials, in-depth reviews, excellent and clear design. Expensive though - it's UK based and costs about $13.50 in the US.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Saturday, 22 November 2003 20:37 (twenty-one years ago)

does it cover hardware too?

― Aaron Grossman (aajjgg), Saturday, 22 November 2003 21:21 (twenty-one years ago)

does it cover hardware too?

Pretty much no, unless it's hardware relating to computer music eg interfaces, sound cards etc. Personally I find it ('Computer Music') over geared towards the novice (lots of screen shot tutorials in how to get started with Reason and things like that...not that I've ever used Reason but I'm sure I could learn how to use it without one of those step-by-step tutorials).

― David (David), Saturday, 22 November 2003 21:50 (twenty-one years ago)

Tape Op's still good.

― hungee homer, Saturday, 22 November 2003 23:44 (twenty-one years ago)

Sound on sound is beezer -the website has a lot of great stuff archived too. The best bit is "Studio SOS" where the 2 guys from the magazine go around to readers' houses and put up duvets on the walls as acoustic treatment...
Not too impressed by any of the other mags myself -future music is OK sometimes, but pretty insubstantial. Computer music likewise -very beginner-oriented I find, and they spend most of the time evangelizing about how much better software is than hardware.

― Conor (Conor), Monday, 24 November 2003 05:46 (twenty-one years ago)

studio sos is cool. i am trying to remember... there is one magazine that has something similar, except the attention is paid to giving gear advice... is this studio SOS too? ...because many of the columns recently have just been about acoustic treatments.

― Aaron Grossman (aajjgg), Monday, 24 November 2003 18:18 (twenty-one years ago)

They are all, without exception, salesmen in paper form. Kill, kill, kill.

― Lynskey (Lynskey), Monday, 24 November 2003 18:46 (twenty-one years ago)

Modern Drummer is pretty decent. I pick it up whenever they do interviews with jazz guys, which are often fantastic.

The review section has always been interesting too...they aren't really reviews, as they are never negative, but they to pick some pretty obscure albums to spotlight sometimes, lots of semi-local stuff.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 24 November 2003 18:59 (twenty-one years ago)

"They are all, without exception, salesmen in paper form. Kill, kill, kill. "

-I would agree with you on all of them except Sound on Sound -when I mentioned the duvets business I was getting at the great thing about that magazine, that they offer way more advice than the other mags about working with what you've got. Of course there is an element of the gear fetish in there too, but they aren't too egregious on that front I think...

― Conor (Conor), Monday, 24 November 2003 21:29 (twenty-one years ago)

Um, and Tape Op. The only technical music magazine I can stand.

― NA (Nick A.), Monday, 24 November 2003 21:49 (twenty-one years ago)

since sound on sound actually pay me for the stories i write for them, i'm gonna have to go ahead and say them too.

tape op is also great.

― mark p (Mark P), Monday, 24 November 2003 21:52 (twenty-one years ago)

another vote for tape op, which i'd rate as the single best current music magazine, period.

― fact checking cuz, Monday, 24 November 2003 22:00 (twenty-one years ago)

are there other SOS staff people here? i was reading a review off the site, and the photo credit said Mark Ewing ;-)

― Aaron Grossman (aajjgg), Tuesday, 25 November 2003 00:15 (twenty-one years ago)

who's that?

― mark p (Mark P), Tuesday, 25 November 2003 04:15 (twenty-one years ago)

i was just kidding in reference to our founder but i am not a funny person.

― Aaron Grossman (aajjgg), Tuesday, 25 November 2003 04:35 (twenty-one years ago)

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