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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Nothing is sold on this site. When a link leads to a shop, it is the maker's shop, not ours.

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Busker unknowingly performs Coldplay classic with Chris Martin

September 23

A busker ended up unknowingly performing a Coldplay classic with Chris Martin himself, after the band’s front man spontaneously joined in with the rendition while roaming the streets of London.

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