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Electric guitars & amps · 114 stories, +35 vs last week

Electric guitars & amps: 114 stories in seven days, +35 on the week before.

Guitars'If You Can Learn This, You'll Be One Of The Best Guitar Players In The World': Trivium's Matt Heafy Names One 'Insane' Album Whose Leads He Still Can't Play [News] Ultimate Guitar

SynthsOpen Source Programmable Guitar Pedal using STM32 MatrixSynth

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Ultimate GuitarGuitars'If You Can Learn This, You'll Be One Of The Best Guitar Players In The World': Trivium's Matt Heafy Names One 'Insane' Album Whose Leads He Still Can't Play [News] Music News : "Imagine Alan Holdsworth mixed with Marty Friedman. Just f**king mind-blowing."

DJ MagLive & DJListen to Jeff Mills' Live At Knockdown Center' on Apple Music The two-part mix recording captures a set Mills played at the New York venue in March of this year

DJ MagLive & DJRare Moby and Depeche Mode tapes go up for auction The collection includes a one-of-a-kind DJ demo cassette by Moby that dates back to the late ’80s

DJ MagLive & DJFred again.. speaks out against AI music: “The process is the magic” The UK artist shared his thoughts in a series of Instagram stories

MatrixSynthSynthsCreate Sounds for the Proteus 2000 video upload by Coffeeshopped "A quick demo of the E-mu Proteus 2000 editor/librarian in Patch Base. Other editors in Patch Base include the Proteus 1000, Orbit-3, Virtuoso 2000, Xtreme Lead-1…

Magnetic MagazineLive & DJTooker Keeps The Human Reason In The Record There is a version of the AI conversation in music that gets boring almost immediately, mostly because it treats the machine like the whole story.

MatrixSynthSynthsFree Roland D-110 Editor Librarian | Web MIDI Patch Manager video upload by Ian Dixon "A hands-on walkthrough of my free Roland D-110 Editor Librarian, a browser-based Web MIDI tool I developed to make the D-110 much easier to manage and edit from a modern…

PollstarIndustryTop Tours: Kacey Musgraves Debuts On Live75 With ‘Middle Of Nowhere’ Tour Please login to your Pollstar subscriber account to view this content.

PollstarIndustryJohn Mayer Announces April 2027 ‘Live At Sphere’ Series Of Shows John Mayer has announced that he will perform live at the Sphere in Las Vegas, NV, in April 2027. The acclaimed singer-songwriter will hit the stage in the desert on April 8, 10, 11, 15, 17, and 18…

MatrixSynthSynthsMVI_0247QY.AVI video upload by ylva trax Yamaha QY70 controlled by Korg nanoKONTROL2

Guitar Pedal XGuitarsPastFX unveils the doppelflänger - its own exacting vintage specs, high headroom, compact take on the original 1970's MXR flanger/doubler Rack Unit NOTE - that there were some inaccuracies in the original overview - which have been set right by leading MXR Engineer Jack - as annotated, clarified and corrected here below.

Magnetic MagazineLive & DJAlessio Collina Shows His Range on Shades of Me Alessio Collina’s Shades of Me E.P feels like a fitting title for a label boss finally stepping into his own limited series.

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· Trade shows and launch events, this week's stories from each corner of the industry, and what its press is covering.

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Three pins, and nearly every signal in this business passes through them.

The magazine is named after the cable: the microphone in the booth, the line to the desk, the DMX run that fires the lights. Studio, stage and rig share the same cable. Most magazines pick one of the three. This one covers all of it, because the people we read do too — the engineer mixing a record on Tuesday is on front of house by Saturday.

Around a hundred and sixty sources, in English, Japanese, Spanish, German, French, Chinese and Italian: makers and their release notes, reviewers who put a hand on the thing, studios and touring crews, the producers and collectives surfacing this month and the scenes they came out of. Synths and modular, plugins and DAWs, guitars and drums, microphones, monitors, PA and lighting. What the trade is talking about is counted and plotted. The editor's letter has just started; it will find its rhythm.

For each story: a headline, a short excerpt, one picture and the link out. We never reprint the article, and the picture belongs to the maker or the photographer. A German review appears in German and a Japanese one in Japanese, as the writer published it; the link goes to the original.

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