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.

← XLR MAG Archive

Lighting&Sound AmericaLive & DJ

Ayrton Launches Falconer Followspot Control System

10.20

Ayrton has announced Falconer; designed to retain the natural, responsive feel of a traditional followspot, it relies instead on a camera rigged where it provides the clearest view of the stage, so…

Lighting & stage Product News

Read at Lighting&Sound America ↗

Also covered by: Lighting&Sound International

One letter a week, starting soon.

Latest

Ayrton Launches Falconer Followspot Control System

Related

Live & DJElation LED Lighting Upgrade at Bell Media Lighting&Sound America

Live & DJPaul Normandale Adds Extra Dimension to Kings of Leon Show with CHAUVET Professional PXL 8 Lighting&Sound America

Live & DJArena Video acquires Main Event Lighting TPi Magazine

Live & DJIPS adds ROXX NEO Lite to its trade hire lighting inventory TPi Magazine

Live & DJAyrton Cobras let loose on Brussels Flower Carpet Lighting&Sound International

Live & DJChauvet helps set the mood at Zomerhit 2026 Lighting&Sound International