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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Keith Richards on the recording advancement that sucked the soul out of the Rolling Stones

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The making of the Rolling Stones' landmark 10th album, Exile on Main St. , was turbulent at best. Despite Keith Richards' drug issues, disjointed sessions, gear theft and plenty of internal…

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