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Electric guitars & amps · 119 stories, +61 vs last week

Electric guitars & amps: 119 stories in seven days, +61 on the week before.

IndustryTajMo at the Cerritos Center for the Performing Arts, CA Music Connection

GuitarsWhat Your Amp's Gain Knob Actually Does, And The Tube Swap Stevie Ray Vaughan Relied On To Cut Gain At The Source [News] Ultimate Guitar

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Music ConnectionIndustryTajMo at the Cerritos Center for the Performing Arts, CA Web: kebmo.com/tajmo Contact: [email protected] Players: Taj Mahal , vocals, guitar, harmonica; Keb’ Mo’, vocals, guitar, harmonica; Ann Harris, backing vocals, violin, percussion; Martina Menendez…

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Ultimate GuitarGuitarsWhat Your Amp's Gain Knob Actually Does, And The Tube Swap Stevie Ray Vaughan Relied On To Cut Gain At The Source [News] Gear : Most players know that turning it clockwise adds dirt, and the explanation tends to stop there. Inside the preamp, the control does the same job as the volume pot on your guitar.

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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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