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GearnewsGearIconic Synths: 10 Game-Changing Synthesizers These are the iconic synths that made the biggest impact on music – and how you can get their sound even today.

11.13

GearnewsGearSolar Guitars Type H Guillotine Headless Multiscale Travel Guitars Solar Guitars has launched the Type H Guillotine, a new headless multiscale travel guitar model. It is available in either a 6-string or a 7-string configuration.

11.13

GearnewsGearHelpful Guitar Gear: 5 Accessories I Couldn’t Live Without Helpful guitar gear can be the make-or-break of any guitarist’s setup. From capos to cloths, here’s what I’d recommend to every player.

11.13

GearnewsGearAudient iD Desktop Range: Enhanced with DSP and Monitor Correction It’s a late drop! The new fully-featured 3rd-generation Audient iD Desktop range is here with four audio interfaces to replace the old ones.

11.13

GearnewsGearCatalinbread Early Verb FX90: That Yamaha SPX90 Reflections in a stompbox The Early Verb FX90 is Catalinbread’s latest preset algorithm in a pedal inspired by the Yamaha SPX90 rack effect unit.

11.13

GearnewsGearDrum Replacement Tools: New Sound, Same Feel We check out some essential drum replacement tools that can save the day when you’re working with recordings captured in less-than-ideal spaces.

11.13

GearnewsGearBehringer AQ64L: Open-Source Clip Launcher With 64 Pads – How Much Will it Cost? Behringer has announced the AQ64L, an AKAI APC-like clip launcher controller. It’s open source, which is cool, but there’s no mention of a price yet.

11.13

GearnewsGearAKAI MPC 3.10.1 Update: Make Your Own MPC Plugins! What is even happening? With AKAI MPC 3.10.1 you can now officially build instrument and effect plugins for the MPC line.

11.12

GearnewsGearPlugins That Sound Expensive: Get Mixes That Sparkle We explore a range of plugins that sound expensive. These mixing and music production tools are tried and tested processors that add something special.

11.12

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.

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