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GearnewsGearThe Daft Punk Concert LEGO Set Is Actually Happening The rumors were true: Daft Punk and LEGO have announced a new partnership. Get ready for a bunch of Daft Punk-themed content, including the fan-favorite Daft Punk Concert LEGO set that began as an…

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GearnewsGearDigiTape, Timetravel, The Machine: Free Plugins of the Week This week’s round-up of free plugins brings you not one, but two tape simulations: DigiTape and The Machine. We’ve also got an emulation of a popular reverse delay pedal.

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GearnewsGearMonster Maker: Get Your Freak On with this Free Halloween-Themed Groove Machine In the mood for some spooky beats? The Monster Maker is a free and slightly terrifying Halloween-themed groove machine that runs in your browser.

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GearnewsGearFender Tone Master Pro, Focusrite, Alesis: 3 Amazing Guitar Recording Deals of the Week! We’re closing in on the dealiest time of the year, and there are already some great guitar recording deals to be found!

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GearnewsGearThe Top 5 Best-Rated Behringer Synths: The Stars Are Out Tonight With so many synthesizers in its stable, how do you know which Behringer instrument is worth your hard-earned money? These are the best-rated Behringer synths.

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GearnewsGearBest Guitar Tones: 5 Legendary Sounds to Learn From These are some of the best guitar tones that are immortal on vinyl, tape, and MP3 formats. Guitarists can learn something from each of them. Let’s have a listen.

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GearnewsGearTwo-Piece Bands: A Signal Chain For Splitting Your Guitar into Guitar and Bass – Perfect Match! Two-piece bands aren’t anything new. From giants like The White Stripes, Twenty One Pilots, and Royal Blood to indie darlings like Death from Above 1979 or Cleopatrick, figuring out how to sound like…

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GearnewsGearPlugins For Fixing Muddy Mixes: Stuck In The Mud? Have you ever spent hours on one of your tracks and ended up making it sound worse? These plugins will help you with fixing muddy mixes.

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GearnewsGearEarthQuaker Devices Plumes Jr. & Blumes Jr. Mod now with MOSFETs EarthQuaker Devices has just released the Plumes Jr. and Blumes Jr. Mod as a limited run with an added MOSFET option for extra drive tones. Contents – EarthQuaker Devices Plumes & Blumes Jr.

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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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