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Electric guitars & amps · 93 stories, +46 vs last week

Electric guitars & amps: 93 stories in seven days, +46 on the week before.

GuitarsP.J. Harvey on why she stopped playing guitar onstage —and the real reason she chose her first pair of tour guitarists Guitar Player

GuitarsJoe Satriani: “It’s absurd to think technique has anything to do with music…” Guitar Player

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Guitar PlayerGuitarsBrian May names Freddie Mercury’s “most beautiful” Queen song — and it’s not “Bohemian Rhapsody” Brian May and Freddie Mercury created some of Queen’s most enduring anthems, with the guitarist’s melodic precision providing the perfect counterbalance to Mercury’s theatrical brilliance.

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GearnewsGearUnion Audio AREA.6 Puts CV Control in a Performance-Oriented Mixer: Now Available! Union Audio’s unique AREA.6 mixer is finally available! Grab the Eurorack-ready mixer with filter, compression and CV control now.

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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.

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