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XLR is a magazine, a radar and a diary about music gear and the making of music — for the people who make records and put on shows, wherever they do it.

The name is the three-pin connector that every signal in the business passes through: the microphone on stage and in the booth, the line to the desk, the DMX cable that runs the lights. Studio, stage and lighting rig share it, and so does this magazine. Every few hours XLR collects what the makers shipped, what the reviewers heard, what the studios and the touring crews are doing, which producers and collectives are surfacing and what they are saying — synths and modular, plugins and DAWs, guitars and drums, microphones, monitors, PA and lights, the rooms and the people — from a few hundred sources in English, German, French, Spanish, Japanese and more, then plots what is moving. The editor writes a letter every few days. Nothing is sold here; when a link leads to a shop, that is the maker's shop, not ours.

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Lighting&Sound InternationalLive & DJ

AMP Visual TV builds on 10 years of MediorNet evolution

September 14

[Europe] AMP Visual TV is continuing the evolution of its production infrastructure with further investments in Riedel technology across its OB fleet and fixed production facilities [...]

Electric guitars & amps

Read at Lighting&Sound International ↗

DAW & pluginsMorphulus updates Spectrus to v1.6.0 - New NAM Loader, Vintage Opto Phaser, 2 Amps, 3 Distortion Pedals KVR Audio News

IndustryGibson opens largest retail Garage in Miami to target latin market MMR

IndustryBusta Rhymes Says Artists and Producers ‘Face a Very Similar Frustration’ with Streaming Digital Music News

GuitarsGretsch's Unusual Folding Guitar That Beat The Travel Guitar Market By 40 Years: The Bikini [News] Ultimate Guitar

GuitarsAvantone Pro introduces GTR-100 Amp For Guitar Modelers Premier Guitar

“When I’ve played the guitars of people I’ve looked up to, it always feels like there’s DNA on them – like you’re getting a visit from your heroes”: Marcus King on his new signature Epiphone acoustic, playing Tiger, and his brotherhood with Brent Hinds

Guitars“When I’ve played the guitars of people I’ve looked up to, it always feels like there’s DNA on them – like you’re getting a visit from your heroes”: Marcus King on his new signature Epiphone acoustic, playing Tiger, and his brotherhood with Brent Hinds Guitar World

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