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Electric guitars & amps · 84 stories, +45 vs last week

Electric guitars & amps: 84 stories in seven days, +45 on the week before.

EuropeCort KX500 Baritone: E-Gitarre mit Edelstahlbünden & Locking-Tuner serienmäßig delamar

GuitarsMany Guitarists Pick Up A Mandolin Expecting A Smaller Guitar, But It's Closer To A Violin With Frets [News] Ultimate Guitar

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DJ MagLive & DJADAM Audio announces Sub8 PRO and Sub10 PRO subwoofers Managed by the company's new software system, ADAM Control

DJ MagLive & DJBaby Audio announces new muti-effect plug-in, HyperWarp The plug-in comes loaded with 190 presets from "top producers and sound designers"

DJ MagLive & DJA Minimoog is set to take be used in a soloist's performance with the Asheville Symphony "One of the aims of this concerto is to showcase the virtuosity of the classical tradition on a synth"

Synth AnatomySynthsSQ8L: Siegfried Kullmann’s free SQ-80 emulation is back for modern 64-bit systems The SQ8L Synthesizer plugin, a free SQ-80 emulation by Siegfried Kullmann, is back for modern 64-bit systems.

Synth AnatomySynthsMelbourne Exchange: free community library of Melbourne Instruments Roto-Control setups Melbourne Exchange is a new free community library for Roto-Control setups for synths, pedals, plugins, and more on the Melbourne Instruments website.

MatrixSynthSynthsSUPERFREAKER - The First Arturia Microfreak with Built-in Effects! video upload by Freakier Firmware "It's finally here! SUPERFREAKER for the Arturia Microfreak. Loads of features we've all been asking for and never thought would come.

MatrixSynthSynthsKlang Legio: Crazy drum with zappy percussion on the Legio platform video upload by Noise Engineering "Klang Legio is a wacky midrange percussion voice based on the Basimilus engine, built for zaps, hits, and all sorts of wild drum sounds.

FOH OnlineLive & DJCheck1.2 – Feedback Checker App Check1.2 (“Check One-Two”) Feedback Checker is an iPhone / iPad app for identifying feedback-prone frequencies in live sound applications

BillboardIndustry‘Golden’ Is Still Golden, Wins Best Song at 2026 World Soundtrack Awards (Full Winners List) “Golden” from KPop Demon Hunters is still picking up awards. The global smash, which won a Golden Globe, a Grammy and an Oscar last winter, among many other awards, won best original song at the 2026…

FOH OnlineLive & DJLEA Pro Names Cardinal Sales to Expand Midwest Residential Reach LEA Professional announces its newfound partnership with Cardinal Sales, an Indianapolis-based manufacturer’s representative.

Ultimate GuitarGuitarsMany Guitarists Pick Up A Mandolin Expecting A Smaller Guitar, But It's Closer To A Violin With Frets [News] Features : In bluegrass, the mandolin's "chop" is a muted chord snapped onto the backbeat that does the job a snare drum would.

Ultimate GuitarGuitarsTarantino Intentionally Had Kurt Russel Destroy A 145-Year-Old Martin For 'Hateful Eight,' Historian Claims, Challenging Mixup Narrative [News] Music News : "Tarantino filmed it at night on purpose so that the guitar tech wouldn't be there," Dick Boak, former historian at the Martin museum, says.

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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.

Nothing is sold on this site. When a link leads to a shop, it is the maker's shop, not ours.