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Bedroom Producers BlogDAW & pluginsAudio Plugin Deals offers 17 plugins and sound packs in a FREE Black Friday Mega Bundle Audio Plugin Deals is offering the FREE Black Friday Mega Bundle, a collection of 17 plugins, instruments, and sound packs, at no cost until November 26.

Bedroom Producers BlogDAW & pluginsStereoGhost releases PhaseKicker, an automatic kick-bass phase alignment plugin StereoGhost has released PhaseKicker, a plugin that automatically adjusts the phase relationship between your kick and bass on every kick hit.

Bedroom Producers BlogDAW & pluginsSix cheap Plugin Boutique deals starting at $5, plus a FREE gift Plugin Boutique has several worthwhile Black Friday deals starting at just $5, and even the cheapest purchase here qualifies for a free gift.

Bedroom Producers BlogDAW & pluginsDZTL8 releases Merg, a FREE stereo-to-mono plugin for macOS and Windows DZTL8 has released Merg, a free stereo-to-mono utility plugin for macOS and Windows that lets you adjust how much of each channel makes it into the mono mix.

Bedroom Producers BlogDAW & pluginsSonic Academy JU-60 chorus plugin is FREE again for Black Friday 2026 Sonic Academy is giving away JU-60, its Roland Juno-60-inspired chorus plugin for macOS and Windows, again for Black Friday 2026.

Bedroom Producers BlogDAW & pluginsA2D Sound releases Atrium, a 3D mixing plugin for stereo, with $69 intro sale Atrium by A2D Sound is a new spatial mixing plugin that lets you position tracks in width, depth, and height while keeping the finished mix in ordinary stereo.

Bedroom Producers BlogDAW & pluginsFreakshow Industries releases Dicksmasher with FREE download option No Freakshow Industries release comes without a certain level of implied danger. This time, with Dicksmasher, we get an explicit warning that this weaponised distortion is “unsafe for use,” and…

Bedroom Producers BlogDAW & pluginsVoid Enemy releases Plenitude, a FREE synthesizer for macOS and Windows Void Enemy has released Plenitude, a free virtual analog synthesizer with three oscillators, a modulation matrix, and built-in effects for macOS and Windows.

Bedroom Producers BlogDAW & pluginsAnalog Obsession releases MasterTone, a FREE Baxandall EQ plugin Analog Obsession has released MasterTone, a free Baxandall EQ plugin for macOS and Windows. Here’s a developer who was delivering quality freebies long before the current AI wave.

Bedroom Producers BlogDAW & pluginsWin Black Rooster Audio’s OmniTec-436C compressor in our giveaway We’ve teamed up with Black Rooster Audio to give one BPB reader a free license for OmniTec-436C, a vintage-style vari-mu compressor for macOS and Windows.

Bedroom Producers BlogDAW & pluginsReasonable Audio releases Preamble, a FREE preamp distortion plugin Reasonable Audio has released Preamble, a free preamp distortion plugin for macOS, Windows, and Linux. Preamble emulates a bucket-brigade delay pedal’s input stage, without the delay itself.

Bedroom Producers BlogDAW & pluginsWin a FREE copy of Sample Roll CRTE granular instrument Sample Roll and Bedroom Producers Blog are giving away one FREE copy of CRTE, a granular and wavetable instrument for macOS and Windows.

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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.

More than three hundred sources, in sixteen languages: 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.

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