We're lucky enough to have been leant a new OR100 from Orange Amplifiers to show off for the next few days. We've set it up in our Bournemouth pro-music store today so if you're in the area this weekend and you fancy trying out this little beast for yourself, pop …

Deciding which microphone is best for you can often be a pain, especially if you cannot get to our store easily to demo the ones that you're considering. In fact, even if you do live locally, you might still prefer to demo microphones in the comfort of your own studio …

Many of you will have heard that one of our competitor UK stores Digital Village (aka DV247), ceased operating in its previous form on Friday 10th May 2013. As this affects us and our customers, our suppliers and many friends of ours in the industry, we thought we'd give you …

On Saturday 27th April, our friend Lex McKee was kind enough to organise a live gig in our café with Alan Hunter and Johnny Moore as the Alan Hunter Duo. He captured some snippets of the show and sent us the links so that anyone who missed it could enjoy …

E-J Evans is a young up-and-coming artist with close links to Absolute Music. She's recorded in our studios, taken Cubase lessons with our tutor Dave Thomas and she's recently purchased Cubase 7 and a Steinberg UR22 interface to begin building up her own home recording studio.

After getting set-up, E-J …

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Another exciting dealer announcement for drummers now - we are currently only one of 3 dealers in the UK that have agreed to stock the new Aquarian inHEAD - the world's first hybrid acoustic/electronic drum head! The Aquarian inHEAD has FSR technology embedded within it to eliminate many of the problems …

We are extremely proud to announce that we have recently agreed a deal to become official Zildjian dealers! The Turkish company Zildjian is the world's oldest family-run business and even if you know very little about drums, this is one brand that you are likely to have heard of! Amazingly …

On Wednesday 22nd August 2012, we were delighted to host a very rare drum clinic, which saw legendary session drummer Kenny Aronoff show off his skills with a Yamaha DTX electronic drum kit, whilst dishing out hints and tips to the 60 lucky people that managed to get a ticket …

Wow! What a week that was!

Yep, after months of back-breaking hard work and over a year of planning, our new superstore and studios complex finally opened their doors to the world on Saturday 18th August and it was an amazing day!

With just half an hour until opening time …