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Electric guitars & amps · 98 stories, +62 vs last week

Electric guitars & amps: 98 stories in seven days, +62 on the week before.

Guitars“Can this $999 seven-string guitar strike fear in its opposition?”: Cort KX507MS Pale Moon review Guitar World

EuropeGibson Original Collection – vier klassische Akustikgitarren mit moderner Funktionalität Bonedo

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Ultimate GuitarGuitars'In Some Cases, It Should Probably Say 'Dave And A Lot Of Teemu'': Mustaine Praises New Megadeth Guitarist As He Explains Key To Writing Great Riffs [News] Music News : "Some of the stuff that we wrote together, I wrote just a little bit, and it says me and him."

Sennheiser NewsroomStudios & prosTone Art puts its trust in Sennheiser Spectera across Danish theatre productions From Moulin Rouge to Evita, Spectera has cut setup time, simplified touring and won over a once-skeptical team

FifineChinafifine Explores New Global Opportunities at 2026 Hong Kong Electronics Fair (Autumn Edition) HONG KONG, October 14, 2026 — fifine is showcasing its latest products at the 2026 Hong Kong Electronics Fair (Autumn Edition) , taking place October 13–16 at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition…

DJ MagLive & DJTeenage Engineering announces plans to stop making synthesisers Including the Stockholm-based electronics and design company's flagship, OP-1

DJ MagLive & DJUniversal Audio announces latest native plug-in, Empirical Labs FATSO Tape Simulator The original FATSO sound has made its way into professional studio recordings by AC/DC, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden and more

DJ MagLive & DJThese headphones twist into a portable speaker Offering over 200 hours of battery life in headphone mode and 16 hours in speaker mode

RekkerdDAW & pluginsFREE: Aetheriae hybrid texture synthesizer by Morphor Morphor, maker of the ECHON 6 synthesizer and analog Eurorack modules, has released a free hybrid texture synthesizer for macOS and Windows.

Lighting&Sound InternationalLive & DJHippotizer creates layered worlds at Finland’s National Theatre [Finland] Illustrations, projection and lighting are converging at Finland’s historic National Theatre for a production of the children’s classic Puluboi and…

Production ExpertStudios & prosSonnet Updates Echo III PCIe Expansion Chassis Family With Thunderbolt 5 Sonnet has updated its Echo III PCIe card expansion chassis family with Thunderbolt 5 connectivity, bringing three PCIe slots to a wider range of Macs and PCs that lack built-in card slots.

Lighting&Sound InternationalLive & DJNaostage delivers tracking across nine summer festivals [France] Naostage's K SYSTEM performer tracking platform was deployed across nine French festivals during the summer 2026 season

Lighting&Sound InternationalLive & DJAlphaTheta’s KUVO platform partners with International Nightlife Association [Europe] KUVO, AlphaTheta’s global platform for music recognition and data services, has entered a landmark partnership with the International Nightlife Association (INA)

PollstarIndustryAEG Presents Acquires Auguri Productions In France Arnaud Meersseman, MD of AEG Presents (left), and Charles Bensmaine, president and founder of Auguri Productions, one of France’s leading artist development companies.

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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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