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.

Around a hundred and sixty sources, in English, Japanese, Spanish, German, French, Chinese and Italian: makers and their release notes, reviewers who put a hand on the thing, studios and touring crews, the producers and collectives surfacing this month and the scenes they came out of. Synths and modular, plugins and DAWs, guitars and drums, microphones, monitors, PA and lighting. What the trade is talking about is counted and plotted. The editor's letter has just started; it will find its rhythm.

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.

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

← XLR MAG Archive

Guitar.comGuitars

Matt Bellamy on Manson, why Instagram guitarists are the future, and his desire to build an AI prompt guitar

11.10

Matt Bellamy ’s proudest moment as the owner of Manson Guitars might have happened about five minutes ago – when he got it wrong.

Electric guitars & amps AI in music

Read at Guitar.com ↗

One letter a week, starting soon.

Latest

Matt Bellamy on Manson, why Instagram guitarists are the future, and his desire to build an AI prompt guitar

Related

GearAustralian music industry news: guitar sales up, alliances, live music report, fairer AI framework & 11 farewells Mixdown

DAW & pluginsOverloud Brings Neural Amp Modeler to THU Premium v2.2 Synth and Software

AI toolsMeet Neko, A Mini AI Guitar Rig. Built by Neko Engineering, Powered by LALAL.AI LALAL.AI

MakersMeet GENOME 2.1: Modern Icons — 5 New TSM-Ai Amplifiers, Wham-It & More! Two notes

AI toolsLALAL.AI’s Andromeda Gets Guitars and a Cleaner Piano Stem LALAL.AI

GuitarsSave on brands like Epiphone, Squier, Schecter and more with these early Black Friday deals from Guitar Center Guitar.com