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Electric guitars & amps · 120 stories, +51 vs last week

Electric guitars & amps: 120 stories in seven days, +51 on the week before.

GuitarsHow A Strap Button Turned The Telecaster Into A Pedal Steel: The Story Of The B-Bender [News] Ultimate Guitar

ScenesCHEAP TRICK’S RICK NIELSEN BRINGS HIS LEGENDARY GUITAR COLLECTION FOR BENEFIT AUCTION Australian Musician

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Sennheiser NewsroomStudios & prosKygo on a world tour: in-ear monitoring re-defined with Sennheiser Spectera Sydney, 29 September 2026 – Following on from shows in North and South America, the Norwegian music producer, keyboard player, DJ and songwriter...

Ultimate GuitarGuitarsHow A Strap Button Turned The Telecaster Into A Pedal Steel: The Story Of The B-Bender [News] Gear : Clarence White needed an extra hand at a 1967 session, so drummer and machinist Gene Parsons built one.

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

DJ MagLive & DJFred again.. speaks out against AI music: “The process is the magic” The UK artist shared his thoughts in a series of Instagram stories

SynthtopiaSynthsWarthog Promises Total Recall For Your Eurorack Modular Synth Patches At Roma Modulare 2026, Adam Miski, founder of Adamsynths and designer of the innovative Warthog Eurorack system shared an intro to the Warthog Total Recall system.…

SynthtopiaSynthsNew App, Phantom Sun, Brings Semi-Modular Synthesis To The iPad Phantom Sun is a semi-modular iPad synthesizer designed for generative patches, experimental sound design and expressive touch performance.…

SynthtopiaSynthsOsmose Firmware Update 2.3 Now Available, But Some Users Suggest Caution While Osmose 2.3 offers a lot of new features, we've seen some owners express frustration with the upgrade process. …

Music ConnectionIndustryIn the Studio with Sleep The Members: Al Cisneros, bass, vocals; Bubba Dupree, guitar; Dale Crover, drums The Album: Hempispheres Produced by: Sleep Engineered and mixed by: Toshi Kasai Recorded at: Melvins HQ, Sound of…

FOH OnlineLive & DJHow to Record Live Shows with Waves Tracks Live 2.0 and LV1 How to record a live show and perform virtual soundcheck with Waves’ new Tracks Live 2.0 live multitrack recording software, including one-click sync with the Waves LV1 live mixer.

Premier GuitarGuitarsU2 Announces New Studio Album Carnaval De Luz, Out November 13; New Track “Silencio” Out Now Interscope Records today announces the release of Carnaval De Luz - the 16th studio album from U2 and the first album of new material from the band in nine years - out on November 13th, 2026.

KVR Audio NewsDAW & pluginsForce56 Audio Software releases Thunder660 Drums VST - Boss DR-660 Inspired Drum Machine Plugin Force56 Audio Software has released Thunder660 Drums VST , a sample-based virtual drum machine based on the sounds and workflow of the classic Boss DR-660 drum machine.

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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.

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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