Ernie Ball

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Ernie BallMakersErnie Ball to Acquire Source Audio, Expanding the Iconic String Maker Into Premium Effects One of music’s most trusted names joins one of its most innovative effects builders, bringing Source Audio’s award-winning pedals to musicians worldwide while preserving the ...

July 8

Ernie BallMakersErnie Ball: New at NAMM 2026 NAMM 2026 is here and we’re kicking off with an announcement of all the new Ernie Ball gear. SIGNATURE STRINGS: PAPA HET & SLASH SINGLE ...

January 22

Ernie BallMakersIntroducing Ernie Ball USB-C Rechargeable Batteries by Paleblue Reliable, Sustainable Power for Musicians and Creators Ernie Ball has partnered with Paleblue, the leader in sustainable rechargeable battery technology, to introduce a new generation ...

November 7

Ernie BallMakersBehind The Art: Jeremey Dean, Artist of the 2025 Bell Bronze Campaign Ernie Ball has always prided itself on working with not only the world’s best musical artists but the world’s best visual artists too. Since 1962 ...

October 10

Ernie BallMakersBack to Our Roots: New Universal Plain String Packaging At Ernie Ball, we’re making a change that’s actually a return to form. We’re introducing a universal envelope system for our plain strings across nine ...

August 1

Ernie BallMakersEverything You Need to Know About Earthwood Bell Bronze Strings, Designed in Collaboration with John Mayer At Ernie Ball, we’re always pushing the boundaries of what guitar strings can be. With our new Earthwood Bell Bronze acoustic guitar strings, developed in ...

May 20

Ernie BallMakersBehind the Art: Florian Schommer, Artist of the 2025 Slinky Campaign Ernie Ball has always prided itself on working with not only the world’s best musical artists but the world’s best visual artists too. Since 1962 ...

May 9

Ernie BallMakersErnie Ball: New at NAMM 2025 NAMM 2025 is here and we’re kicking off with an announcement of all the new Ernie Ball gear. EARTHWOOD BELL BRONZE ACOUSTIC GUITAR STRINGS Developed ...

January 23

Ernie BallMakers6 Things We Learned From String Theory with Collective Soul Ernie Ball String Theory is a web series that explores the sonic origins of some of music’s most innovative guitar players. In this episode of ...

March 13

Ernie BallMakersErnie Ball: New at NAMM 2024 NAMM 2024 is here and we’re kicking off with an announcement of all the new Ernie Ball gear. Make sure to follow along on our ...

January 25

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.