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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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Martin 00-10E Retro Joe Bonamassa review: “Forget the name on the label, this is a great guitar”

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$1,299/£1,329, martinguitar.com There are few more widely feted guitar gear connoisseurs in the modern musical firmament than Joe Bonamassa .

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