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MixdownGearGear Rundown: MJ Lenderman Since the release of his excellent LP Manning Fireworks in September of 2024, MJ Lenderman has been the name on everybody’s lips and for very good reason.

11.13

MixdownGearRoom correction comes to every model in Audient’s redesigned iD range Audient has rebuilt its iD desktop interfaces from the ground up for their third generation, adding onboard DSP, built-in room correction and a set of analogue tone controls to the console-derived…

11.13

MixdownGearA fuzz pedal with a mic inside: Rainger FX launches the Microphonic Fuzz Rainger FX has built a fuzz pedal with a microphone inside it, and the whole idea is to let it feed back. Catch up on all the latest news here.

11.13

MixdownGearReview: Fender Player II 75th Anniversary Telecaster The Fender Telecaster has been around for 75 years now and in that time it’s been all things to all people, which is why today Fender makes a Tele for everyone.

11.13

MixdownGearRetune: A free browser tool for playing along with recordings that sit between keys Anyone who’s tried to play along with a recording a few cents off concert pitch knows that no amount of fiddling with the tuning pegs will fix it, so Retune, a free web app from musician and former…

11.13

MixdownGearSeymour Duncan releases a 50th anniversary Custom Shop Strat set Only three of Seymour Duncan’s new 50th anniversary Strat sets are headed to Australia, which makes this one of the scarcest pickup releases of the year.

11.12

MixdownGearReview: Fender Limited Edition Player Fusion Telecaster The Fender Telecaster was the first commercially successful solidbody electric guitar, and to this day it epitomises the 1950s for a lot of players.

11.12

MixdownGearThe 12 best 12-string songs When Rickenbacker delivered a prototype 12-string to George Harrison in New York in February 1964, it was only the second one the company had ever built.

11.12

MixdownGearGear Rundown: Tinariwen Ibrahim Ag Alhabib built his first guitar out of an oil can, a stick and a length of bicycle brake cable.

11.11

MixdownGearUniversal Audio releases the legendary Cooper Time Cube as a native plug-in Until now, you could only use Universal Audio’s Cooper Time Cube on an Apollo interface or a UAD Accelerator card, and users had spent years asking for a version that would run on their computer…

11.11

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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