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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.

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KVR Audio NewsDAW & plugins

JSplash Apps updates Guitar Wiz to v2.0.1 - Supports iOS 27 with Visual Intelligence, Tempo Detection, and Deeper Siri Support

September 14

JSplash Apps has announced a day-one iOS 27 update for Guitar Wiz , adding camera-based chord recognition, automatic tempo detection, expanded Siri actions, Apple Intelligence support, and a Liquid Glass redesign. Guitar

Electric guitars & amps

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DAW & pluginsMorphulus updates Spectrus to v1.6.0 - New NAM Loader, Vintage Opto Phaser, 2 Amps, 3 Distortion Pedals KVR Audio News

GuitarsFormer Custom Shop head takes aim at Fender with new firm’s S-style design Guitar World

EuropeGibson Victory Baritone: Tiefergelegte Gitarre mit ELEV8-Pickups delamar

Gear"Superb playability, a versatile sound set, and pretty unbeatable value": Shergold Telstar Standard ST14 12-String review MusicRadar

Guitars“I remember looking at it on the floor going, ‘That can not be The Smiths' guitar’”: The Johnny Marr guitar hidden in an iconic Oasis photoshoot Guitar World

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