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KVR Audio NewsDAW & pluginsLeit Audio releases Places - Free Algorithmic Reverb Plugin with Twelve Distinct Spaces (VST3 & AU) Leit Audio has released Places , a free algorithmic reverb plugin with twelve distinct reverb algorithms - six imagined Places and six familiar Reverbs.

Guitar WorldGuitarsWe bought, tested, and ranked 8 dirt-cheap Amazon pedals – now 7 of them are discounted in the Big Deal Days sale starting from only $27.06! Today marks day one of Amazon's Big Deal Days sale, and with it comes a myriad of budget stompboxes available at serious discounts, but which should you get?

Music AllyIndustryFender revamps its website with AI tool and more artist content Fender has been more than just a maker of instruments for some time now. In the last decade we’ve written about its moves in music education, its Fender Studio music-making app and its Fender Next…

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Guitar PlayerGuitarsWin tickets to see Julian Lage at Davies Symphony Hall in San Francisco We've been doing GP Presents promotions with SFJAZZ for Julian Lage's residencies at Miner Auditorium over the past few years, and it’s been so successful that this time we’re moving on up to…

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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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