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Electric guitars & amps · 90 stories, +64 vs last week

Electric guitars & amps: 90 stories in seven days, +64 on the week before.

EuropePRS Archon Amps Black Paisley Limited Edition: Gitarrenverstärker im neuen Design delamar

GuitarsAre PRS Guitars priced so highly that only “dentists and doctors” can afford them? Paul Reed Smith responds: “We’ve done everything in our power to make the SEs affordable” Guitar.com

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Guitar PlayerGuitarsGeordie Greep denies rape allegation at Vancouver show, saying “I’m not a rapist” British guitarist Geordie Greep took the stage alone in Vancouver on Thursday, October 8, to address a rape allegation after someone distributed fliers accusing him of sexual assault outside the…

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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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