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Electric guitars & amps: 95 stories in seven days, +53 on the week before.

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RekkerdDAW & pluginsFREE: VST3 effect plugins by Donkerwerk (Windows) Donkerwerk has released a collection of free audio plugins for Windows. 808 Soft Clip: a clipper for 808s that only drives the part above a split you set, 50 to 300 Hz, and leaves the sub alone.

MusicRadarGearHow to reamp synths and drum machines to build power and presence Stuck in the box? Give those synths, drum machines and plugins some fresh air by reamping them through speakers, capturing the lively sound of the room in the process.

DJ MagLive & DJThe Prodigy tease mysterious "Non-Music Projects" platform, BLK.ANT The platform appears to be based at London's TileYard Studios

DJ MagLive & DJHow Charanjit Singh reimagined Indian classical music for the electronic age In 1982, Indian composer Charanjit Singh’s ‘Synthesizing: Ten Ragas to a Disco Beat’ became one of the first albums to harness the potential of the Roland TB-303, the bass synth that would later…

DJ MagLive & DJAlison Wonderland becomes an independent artist after 15 years, shares new single ‘RESCUE U’ The DJ and producer is celebrating the end of a 15 year contract with "her favourite song" to date

RekkerdDAW & pluginsTest Press releases Neurotrap sample pack by Dr. Apollo Splice has introduced a new sample pack featuring twisted neuro basses, blown-out 808s, futuristic synths, aggressive leads, hard-hitting drums, warped melodies, textures, and high-impact FX.

RekkerdDAW & pluginsFREE: Golpe kick drum designer by Low Frequency Gallery Shannon McDowell of Low Frequency Gallery has launched a collection of synthesized drum machines and drum designers for Windows (VST3). Five drum machines and drum designers for your DAW.

Guitar.comGuitarsBeetronics Seabee Lite review – the kooky chorus pedal gets simpler, cheaper… and better $249/£219, beetronicsfx.com There are two reasons for me to dislike the Beetronics Seabee Lite. The first is that it’s a product of compromise, a cut-price version of an existing model with a bunch…

Production ExpertStudios & prosAre You Saving Your Plugin Presets Wrong? If perfect mixer recall is just one DAW super-power, within that is the ability to use plugin settings time and again for posterity.

Guitar Pedal XGuitarsJHS smartly combines its NOTAKLÖN and Morning Glory circuits for its The Wanderer Dual Overdrive We’re in very familiar territory here - with the classic Morning Glory (Bluesbreaker) on one channel, and the NOTAKLÖN (Klone) on the other - essentially a Klon-Breaker therefore.

Rolling Stone IndiaAsiaPlant and Page Finally Approved ‘Stairway to Heaven’ Onscreen — For Greta Gerwig’s Narnia Movie Robert Plant and Jimmy Page routinely turn down requests to use “Stairway to Heaven” onscreen — even when Cameron Crowe asked for Almost Famous — but they finally gave in to writer-director Greta…

Rolling Stone IndiaAsiaMichael Jackson’s Legendary Super Bowl Halftime Show Is Getting Its Own Documentary A new documentary examining the production and legacy of Michael Jackson’s Super Bowl XXVII halftime show will arrive on Hulu and ESPN next year.

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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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