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SoundGirlsVoicesLeanne Ungar: trail-blazing recording engineer and Berklee professor Leanne Ungar is a veteran recording engineer with 130+ album credits. She's worked with music legends including Cat Stevens, Leonard Cohen, and Laurie Anderson.

SoundGirlsVoicesMargaret Luthar: Mastering Engineer, vinyl cutter, and NPR Broadcast Engineer Margaret Luthar has an extensive background as a Mastering Engineer and vinyl cutter. She currently serves as one of the NPR Broadcast Engineers based in Los Angeles, California.

SoundGirlsVoicesAngie Sandoval: audio engineer, educator, and Orlando SoundGirls Chapter Head Angie Sandoval is a Colombian audio engineer and educator based in Orlando, Florida. Her work consists of studio recording, mixing, live production, and audio education, with a passion for helping…

SoundGirlsVoicesKrysten "KD" Dean and Jess Scott: touring women of color Krysten "KD" Dean and Jess Scott are two amazing women of color who work with Eighth Day Sound and tour with Earth, Wind, and Fire.

SoundGirlsVoicesAly Carlisle-Steinberg: New York City based touring FOH engineer Aly Carlisle-Steinberg is a FOH Engineer, touring since 2015 based in New York City. She grew up in Santa Rosa, California, and completed a Recording Arts Degree at CSU Chico.

SoundGirlsVoicesCatherine Wood: Los Angeles-based engineer, producer, and studio owner Catherine Wood is the owner if Los Angeles studio Planetwood, and has an amazing body of work as a producer and engineer.

SoundGirlsVoicesAila Scott: New York-based audio engineer and sound designer Aila Scott is an NYC based audio engineer and sound designer who has been in the industry for nearly a decade.

SoundGirlsVoicesAshleigh Davies: UK-based audio engineer, sound designer, and re-recording mixer Ashleigh is an experienced audio engineer, sound designer, and re-recording mixer, based in the UK, with a demonstrated history of working in the creative media production industries.

SoundGirlsVoicesAmy Soulfire: producer, musician and sound engineer from New Zealand Amy Soulfire is a multi-facted audio engineer, musician, and producer based in the south island of New Zealand.

SoundGirlsVoicesAmy Wright: educator, audio engineer, and musician from Melbourne Amy Wright has been around all things audio ever since she helped her sound engineer dad as a 6 year-old.

SoundGirlsVoicesLisa Power: monitor engineer and leading RF coordinator in New Zealand Lisa is a freelance sound engineer from Germany, now based in Auckland, New Zealand. She started doing sound in 2000 while trying to figure out what to do with her life after school.

SoundGirlsVoicesHannah Herzog: high profile political and corporate audio enngineer Hannah Herzog is a 2020 Show Production Graduate who has mixed major world wide events such as the 2024 U.S. Olympic Team Trials.

SoundGirlsVoicesKathleen Chen: Germany-based freelance and international touring FOH/monitor engineer Kathleen is a freelance sound engineer from California, now based in Berlin, Germany. In recent years she's had the pleasure of touring internationally as a FOH/Monitor engineer and playback…

SoundGirlsVoicesLora Thompson: new SoundGirls podcast host, musician, freelance audio engineer, and guitar tech Lora is a prolific musician hailing from Whāingaroa/Raglan, and is currently based in Kirikiriroa. She has worked as an Audio Engineer for the past 20 years, and she currently works as a freelance…

SoundGirlsVoicesJackie Boom: Grammy Award winning recording and mix engineer Hailed for her impeccable attention to finessing low-end, Jaclyn Sanchez is bringing analog back into the mix.

SoundGirlsVoicesJohnny Keirle: touring systems engineer specializing in designing and optimizing large-scale sound systems Johnny Kerile is a touring system engineer and system design consultant specializing in design and optimization of large-scale live sound systems.

SoundGirlsVoicesBrianna Cofield: new SoundGirls podcast host, freelance live sound engineer, and so much more! Brianna Cofield is an audio engineer and pianist from Long Island, New York. While attending Syracuse University, Brianna gained hands-on experience in record production and live sound engineering.

SoundGirlsVoicesKatie Maifeld: new SoundGirls podcast host, freelance live audio engineer and music business professional Katie Maifeld is a NYC based freelance live audio engineer and music business professional. She has worked on thousands of events for clubs, festivals, and corporate conferences.

SoundGirlsVoicesThe SoundGirls Podcast is back for 2026! The SoundGirls Podcast Executive Producers: Karrie Keyes, Beckie Campbell, & Susan Kost This episode was edited by Susan Kost The SoundGirls Podcast is presented by soundgirls.org Music by Jess…

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About

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.