The letter

One letter a week, in your inbox.

The week's signal, what the makers shipped and what the reviewers heard, and the editor's note. No tracking, no ads, nothing else.

We keep your address, your language and the date you joined, nothing else. Every letter has a one-click unsubscribe link that deletes the record.

Signal of the week

Synths · 75 stories, +39 vs last week

Synths: 75 stories in seven days, +39 on the week before.

Latest

DJ MagLive & DJUniversal Audio announces next generation of Volt USB Audio Interfaces "Every artist has a sound they’re chasing. We want Volt Gen 2 to give people the confidence to explore that sound, experiment, and keep creating"

October 4

Production ExpertStudios & prosTinnitus For Audio Engineers: Symptoms, Testing And Working With It Photo by Josh Eckstein on Unsplash About one in seven UK adults lives with tinnitus, and many work in audio.

October 4

Rolling Stone IndiaAsiaDiljit Dosanjh Announces Aura India Tour Starting in November Following his announcement of the biggest stadium show in Ahmedabad last month, Diljit Dosanjh has now announced a full-fledged Aura India Tour starting Nov. 1, 2026 in Delhi NCR.

October 4

GearnewsGearOvertonium, Ultiverb, ENS-86: Free Plugins of the Week Overtonium is an amazing additive synth that works like a mixer, Ultiverb is one of the most feature-rich free reverbs I’ve ever seen, and ENS-86 delivers classic chorus sounds: Free plugins of the…

October 4

Guitar PlayerGuitarsNarada Michael Walden on the night he walked away from Tommy Bolin Narada Michael Walden has built a career as a first-call percussionist for some of the world’s most celebrated electric guitar virtuosos.

October 4

Guitar WorldGuitarsFranché Coma was the frantic guitarist on the Misfits’ first album – but the world wouldn’t hear it for 20 years As the original guitarist of the Misfits, Franché Coma recorded one of punk’s great lost works, Static Age, before leaving the band in 1978. “Should I have done it? No. But I did,” he says.

October 4

MusicRadarGearHow Paul Hardcastle created his sample-driven masterpiece 19 Back in 1985, the concept of a professional home studio was still fairly alien. Synthesizers and drum machines were firmly on the agenda, but with digital audio in its infancy, any reasonably…

October 3

Music ConnectionIndustrySinger, Songwriter and Actor TT: Cathartic Creation Raised in Colorado by a theater singer mother who had him performing and playing the piano at three years old, singer-songwriter-actor TT remembers first learning “Somewhere Over The Rainbow.”…

October 3

No TrebleGuitarsHenrik Linder Goes Mini With New Mayones Cali Signature Basses Mayones teams up with Henrik Linder for the Cali HL 5 and 6, pairing a 17.1-inch scale with signature electronics. Watch the Dirty Loops bassist demonstrate.

October 3

Guitar WorldGuitarsNed Steinberger’s headless revolution looked like a world first – until Les Paul dropped a bombshell: he’d already built one Introduced in 1979, the Steinberger headless bass guitar was a revelation. So progressive was its design and composite construction that the fact it was headless seemed almost incidental.

October 3

Music ConnectionIndustry"Punk at Sea: A Rebellion Festival Photo Book" by Michiel Blijboom (paperback) $19.99 The Rebellion Festival is a punk fest that has taken place annually in the English seaside town of Blackpool since 1996, initially known as “Holiday in the Sun.” It swiftly became…

October 3

Guitar PlayerGuitarsGreta Van Fleet sparked fears they broke up. Now they’re launching a massive world tour Greta Van Fleet have answered the question that had been hanging over the band since May: they’re back on the road.

October 3