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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Jens Ritter’s New Beker Bass Channels Pirate Legend and Punk Spirit

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Jens Ritter’s Beker bass draws on pirate Klaus Störtebeker’s legend, with a sabre-inspired body, silver inlays, a 33.3-inch scale, and Häussel pickups.

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