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Mics & outboard · 58 stories, +35 vs last week

Mics & outboard: 58 stories in seven days, +35 on the week before.

Studios & prosKygo en tournée mondiale : les retours in-ear réinventés avec Sennheiser Spectera Sennheiser Newsroom

Live & DJNeumann launches global brand campaign Lighting&Sound International

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Sennheiser NewsroomStudios & prosKygo en tournée mondiale : les retours in-ear réinventés avec Sennheiser Spectera Wedemark, octobre 2026 – Après plusieurs concerts en Amérique du Nord et du Sud, le producteur, claviériste, DJ et auteur-compositeur norvégien...

RekkerdDAW & pluginsLoopmasters releases Breakbeat Grooves sample pack by Nicky Bomba Loopmasters has introduced a new sample pack which captures Nicky Bomba’s distinctive feel and rhythmic personality through a collection of live drum and percussion performances recorded at Treehouse…

Lighting&Sound InternationalLive & DJNeumann launches global brand campaign [Germany] With Hear the Moment, Neumann launches its first global brand campaign

Lighting&Sound InternationalLive & DJDisguise addresses smaller and mid-size productions [Europe] Disguise has announced X2 and X3, making its Designer software more accessible to small and mid-sized productions

Lighting&Sound InternationalLive & DJd&b audiotechnik introduces vCore Soundscape software [Europe] d&b audiotechnik has introduced vCore, a new standalone Soundscape software processing engine

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"

Guitar.comGuitarsChibson pokes fun at the state of the guitar industry with new Cease & Desist knobs Chibson USA is hardly a company known for taking things seriously. In fact, the brand exists to poke fun at the weird and mockable that exists throughout the guitar world.

TPi MagazineLive & DJRegistration for ISE 2027 opens Registration is now open for Integrated Systems Europe (ISE) 2027, as the world-renowned annual tech show for the audiovisual and systems integration industry invites professionals to experience what…

RekkerdDAW & pluginsSalonebeats releases SLB Key free key & tempo detection plugin Salonebeats has introduced a free key and tempo detection plugin for Windows and macOS (VST3). SLB Key analyzes audio live on a mixer track.

KVR Audio NewsDAW & pluginsAudioBrain releases MixBrain V3 - prompt-driven Master + Node mixing system for macOS AudioBrain has released MixBrain V3 , a redesigned Master + Node mixing system for macOS that combines corrective processing, character shaping, mix-priority management and a built-in Local LLM.

GearnewsGearFocusrite, Novation, and ADAM Audio: Studio Deals Special Now with up to 23% Off! It’s Friday, so it’s time for a Studio Deals Special: Thomann is cutting prices for a short window on the Focusrite Scarlett 4th Gen * audio interfaces, the Novation Launchpad Mini MK3 * and…

RekkerdDAW & pluginsApogee Plugins now available from Plugin Alliance Plugin Alliance has announced that Apogee Electronics has joined Plugin Alliance with its studio-standard tools, including Bob Clearmountain’s own signature channel strip, delay, reverb, and mix bus…

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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.

Nothing is sold on this site. When a link leads to a shop, it is the maker's shop, not ours.