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Electric guitars & amps · 106 stories, +42 vs last week

Electric guitars & amps: 106 stories in seven days, +42 on the week before.

GuitarsD’Addario launches five-string set designed for the Jacob Collier’s signature five-string Taylor guitars Guitar.com

EuropeGibson SJ-200 ELEGANT KOA: Neues Gitarren Artisan-Modell mit L.R. Baggs System delamar

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DJ MagLive & DJNative Instruments announces Maschine 3.7 with new creative sequencing tools The music tech giant is also marking its 30th birthday by launching three more of its Expansions sound packs

DJ MagLive & DJListen to Jeff Mills' Live At Knockdown Center' on Apple Music The two-part mix recording captures a set Mills played at the New York venue in March of this year

DJ MagLive & DJRare Moby and Depeche Mode tapes go up for auction The collection includes a one-of-a-kind DJ demo cassette by Moby that dates back to the late ’80s

Guitar PlayerGuitarsEric Clapton doesn’t like this classic Cream track, even though it’s key to his legend: “I think there’s something wrong with it” Did Eric Clapton ever really know what kind of group Cream was? He formed the band with bass guitarist Jack Bruce and drummer Ginger Baker in 1966, after seeing his hero Buddy Guy perform with a trio…

Guitar.comGuitarsD’Addario launches five-string set designed for the Jacob Collier’s signature five-string Taylor guitars After partnering with Taylor last year to launch two new signature five-string acoustic guitars , musical mastermind Jacob Collier has now teamed up with D’Addario on a new set of strings “engineered…

MusicRadarGear“A more successful attempt at what the Volca Mix tried to do”: Korg Nu:Tekt NTS-4 review What is it? Despite proudly displaying ‘Nu:Tekt Synthesizer’ along its bottom edge, the latest addition to Korg’s range of build-it-yourself gadgets is not another sound-generating device.

GearnewsGearSennheiser HDB 630: Now Available in Lunar Silver! The Sennheiser HDB 630 is a premium high-resolution wireless lifestyle headphone design aimed at reaching audiophile listening standards.

Bedroom Producers BlogDAW & pluginsLeit Audio releases UnClip, a FREE plugin for repairing clipped audio Leit Audio has released UnClip, a free audio restoration plugin for macOS, Windows, and Linux. I am mostly sharing this one for fun.

Rolling Stone IndiaAsiaOasis Announce ‘Don’t Look Back in Anger’ Streaming Release Date Oasis have set the streaming release date for their documentary following a theatrical run. Oasis: Don’t Look Back in Anger will be available to watch on Disney+ and Hulu on Oct. 9.

Bedroom Producers BlogDAW & pluginsABYZOR Genesis adds FREE local AI for unlimited MIDI generation ABYZOR has released a free local AI module for its Genesis MIDI generator plugin for macOS and Windows. We featured Genesis when it launched in June.

Guitar WorldGuitarsEddie Vedder lets Irish band play his guitar on stage after all their gear was stolen Eddie Vedder saved an Irish rock band over the weekend, offering up his own electric guitar for use after all their gear had been stolen.

Bedroom Producers BlogDAW & pluginsStereoiXer by Xilentch, a FREE multi-band spatial image processor for macOS and Windows Earlier this year, Xilentch updated its free XM Series plugins, and this latest release, the StereoiXer, shares the same architecture as the developer’s popular mastering bundle.

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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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