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Electric guitars & amps · 93 stories, +57 vs last week

Electric guitars & amps: 93 stories in seven days, +57 on the week before.

GuitarsFender Launches Revamped American Professional Line: Pickup, Electronics And Hardware Upgrades — Without A Price Hike [News] Ultimate Guitar

EuropeMartin O’ahu HG-28K2 Akustikgitarre: Massiver Korpus – kleiner als Dreadnought delamar

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Ultimate GuitarGuitarsFender Launches Revamped American Professional Line: Pickup, Electronics And Hardware Upgrades — Without A Price Hike [News] Gear : "We were like, 'What can we do here? How can we make it better?'", Fender's Chief Product Officer Justin Norvell said.

DJ MagLive & DJThe Prodigy tease mysterious "Non-Music Projects" platform, BLK.ANT The platform appears to be based at London's TileYard Studios

DJ MagLive & DJHow Charanjit Singh reimagined Indian classical music for the electronic age In 1982, Indian composer Charanjit Singh’s ‘Synthesizing: Ten Ragas to a Disco Beat’ became one of the first albums to harness the potential of the Roland TB-303, the bass synth that would later…

DJ MagLive & DJAlison Wonderland becomes an independent artist after 15 years, shares new single ‘RESCUE U’ The DJ and producer is celebrating the end of a 15 year contract with "her favourite song" to date

MatrixSynthSynthsRoland Celebrates Grand Opening of U.S. Flagship Store in New York City Press release follows: Roland Corporation CEO Masahiro Minowa and Roland Americas CEO Manuele Barbini joined artists including DJ Jazzy Jeff, Mdou Moctar, Prince Paul, and more to officially open…

MatrixSynthSynthsSYNTHFEST UK Set for 24th October 2026, THE OCTAGON, SHEFFIELD via https://www.synthfest.co.uk "SynthFest UK takes place in Sheffield and has been created by Sound On Sound magazine to give companies of all sizes an opportunity to showcase their synth products…

MatrixSynthSynths3rd Party Unofficial Sequential Prophet‑5 / Prophet‑10 Rev4 Firmware Mods via GitHub prophet-rev4-modsversion 2.3.0An arpeggiator and a polyphonic step sequencer for the Sequential Prophet‑5 / Prophet‑10 Rev4, added to Sequential's own Main OS 2.1.0 as a firmware patch.

MixdownGearElectro-Harmonix introduces the Wailer Wah Pro, a rugged inductor-free wah Electro-Harmonix has introduced the Wailer Wah Pro, a new wah pedal built to withstand the road and stage while keeping the tone of the original Wailer Wah. Catch up on all the latest news here.

Synth and SoftwareDAW & pluginsCelebrating 20 Years of The Bob Moog Foundation From @synthandsoftware - This August, the Bob Moog Foundation reached a milestone! 20 years of inspiring the next generation of innovative thinkers.

Synth and SoftwareDAW & pluginsEnter to Win an Oberheim TEO-5 Keyboard Signed by Tom Oberheim From @synthandsoftware - Enter for your chance to win an Oberheim TEO-5 keyboard personally signed by synth pioneer Tom Oberheim.

MixdownGearEMEREE talks laughing, travelling and dancing to fuel her creative process EMEREE a powerhouse vocalist, a label that is only rivalled by her growing list of productions for both herself and other artists.

BillboardIndustryJudeline & rusowsky Score First Latin Airplay No. 1 With Karol G Collab ‘BbY WOW’ Following its eight-week coronation on Billboard ’s Hot Latin Songs chart (and counting), “BbY WOW” is now a Latin radio favorite too, as the song by Karol G , with Judeline and rusowsky rises 2-1 on…

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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.

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