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Electric guitars & amps · 102 stories, +62 vs last week

Electric guitars & amps: 102 stories in seven days, +62 on the week before.

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SequentialMakersMaking Synths Easier for Blind and Low-Vision Musicians San Francisco, CA — October 14, 2026— In August last year, I was introduced to Jason Dasent . (https://www.jasondasent.com) He’s a very talented UK-based musician and music producer and he already…

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MatrixSynthSynthsPatchwork - listening to a broad assortment of PEAK patches video upload by • Will's Witchcraft • https://components.novationmusic.com

MatrixSynthSynthsNovation Summit Session 2 - Synth only, no voice video upload by decto "Since I like to watch vids of people playing synths to get an idea about the sonic capabilities and workflow, I thought I'd do the same.

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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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