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Plugins & DAWs · 130 stories, +81 vs last week

Plugins & DAWs: 130 stories in seven days, +81 on the week before.

DAW & pluginsMBM Audio launches magic.PRESS vocal compressor plugin Rekkerd

DAW & pluginsFREE: Grasswhistle arpeggiator plugin by Aqeel Aadam Sound Rekkerd

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Ultimate GuitarGuitarsEpiphones With 25.5-Inch Scales And A Baritone Lp? $1,499 For The Revamped Prophecy Series, Including Sg, Lp, Flying V, And Victory Fr [News] Gear : Every model gets a thermally aged Hyperglide maple neck, 24 stainless steel frets, and custom-voiced Fishman Fluence pickups, which offer modern active, PAF-style, and single-coil-style tones.

RekkerdDAW & pluginsFREE: Trailer Basics sound fx library by BOOM Library BOOM Library has announced a collection of free braams, impacts and stringers for trailer and cinematic sound designers.

RekkerdDAW & pluginsMBM Audio launches magic.PRESS vocal compressor plugin MBM Audio (Music by Mattie) has introduced a new compressor effect plugin designed for vocals. With one button, magic.PRESS automatically compresses your vocal toward the “hit pocket.

Magnetic MagazineLive & DJInterview: Shak-T had a life threatening accident on stage.. But her story did not stop there We spoke to producer and dancer Shak-T about her music and a stage fall.. that nearly de-railed everything Shakti Wicked!

PollstarIndustryThe O2, London Achieves ‘Highly Commended’ Certification By A Greener Future The O2, London in all its glory. Picture by Jason Hawkes / Luke Dyson The O2 has achieved its highest sustainability accreditation to date, receiving a “Highly Commended” rating in the prestigious…

PollstarIndustryHuntington’s Marshall Health Network Arena And Legends Global Announce New Leadership Team GM Michael Sullivan courtesy Legends Global Marshall Health Network Arena in Huntington, West Virginia, and Legends Global have named Michael Sullivan as General Manager and Marisa Milum as Assistant…

RekkerdDAW & pluginsFREE: Grasswhistle arpeggiator plugin by Aqeel Aadam Sound Aqeel Aadam Sound has announced the release of a free arpeggiator for Windows and macOS. Grasswhistle is built around the idea of creating a sequence, then keeping its shape as you move through…

BillboardIndustrySiriusXM Stock Rises on Subscriber Gains SiriusXM Holdings stock rose by nearly 3% on Thursday (Oct. 29) following financial results that showed its growing mix of affordable and add-on audio entertainment plans netted it 5,000 new…

Guitar WorldGuitarsIn 1970, Pete Townshend smashed his iconic SG at a show and gave it to a superfan – 56 years later, it's finally been unearthed Matthieu Lucas, the founder of Parisian artist guitar boutique Matt’s Guitar Shop , has built quite a reputation for his Indiana Jones-esque approach to excavating long-lost guitars.

Guitar PlayerGuitarsPete Townshend reveals why he avoided Led Zeppelin: “They were trying to pinch our audience” Pete Townshend has revealed why he avoided listening to Led Zeppelin during the band’s heyday: He thought they were trying to steal The Who ’s audience.

IK MultimediaMakersSinphonica & Pianoverse MAX BOGO Buy Sinphonica MAESTOSA Strings get Pianoverse MAX free Are you looking for a deeply sampled orchestral string library with a workflow that meets the demands of the modern composer's workflow?

ProSoundWebLive & DJFOH Productions Builds Portable Riedel Video Flypack Phoenix, Arizona -based FOH Productions has deployed a portable video routing and communications system built around a Riedel Communications MediorNet media network, Artist digital matrix and Bolero…

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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.

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.

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