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.

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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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"Back in the '70s, I thought it was the best-produced record I'd ever heard": Trevor Horn on the "amazing" UK number one that brought him "back down to Earth" in the studio

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Trevor Horn is one of the all-time greatest UK record producers, establishing the iconic label ZTT Records and collecting more awards than we’ve space to name over his nearly seven-decade career.

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