XLR

Latest

On the calendar

· Trade shows and launch events, this week's stories from each corner of the industry, and what its press is covering.

On view

This week, from that corner the newest stories from the corner of the industry you picked

The wire their own posts, translated

How records get made in 2026 from the industry's own reports

Sources

Fetched every three hours, linked to the original

About

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.

← XLR Archive

DiGiCoLive & DJ

Bradford LIVE utilises two DiGiCo Quantum 225s for revamped live venue

July 15

The history of Bradford LIVE goes right back to September 22 nd , 1930. Since it opened, it has been a treasured part of the Braford community. The community fought to save it after it fell into disrepair in 2000 and in

Live sound & PA

Read at DiGiCo ↗

One letter a week, in your inbox.

Latest

Bradford LIVE utilises two DiGiCo Quantum 225s for revamped live venue

Related

Live & DJThe Phil Collins Story Relies on DiGiCo and KLANG More Than One More Night DiGiCo

Live & DJDiGiCo Quantum 338 powers James’s Love is the Answer tour DiGiCo

Live & DJEngineers choose DiGiCo Quantum 338 and Quantum 5 for Laufey world tour DiGiCo

Live & DJDiGiCo Quantum T software popular with Stage Sound Services DiGiCo

VoicesREVIEW: Hear More, Play Better with Ultimate Ears Universal Fit IEMs Performer

Studios & prosJack Petruzzelli Tape Op