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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.

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Yamaha Music NewsMakers

Digital Piano TORCH T01 and TransAcoustic™ Guitar TAG 3C/TAS 3C Win Prestigious Red Dot Award: Product Design 2026

April 24

Hamamatsu, Japan ― Yamaha Corporation announces that the digital piano TORCH T01 and the TransAcoustic™ guitar TAG3 C and TAS3 C have won the “Red Dot Award: Product Design 2026”.

Keys & pianos Electric guitars & amps Studios & rooms

Read at Yamaha Music News ↗

Makers2nd Generation of Guitars Featuring TransAcoustic™ Technology Expanded with New Lineup Yamaha TransAcoustic Guitar TAG1 C, TAS1 C, TAG1E, and TAS1E Yamaha Music News

MakersHow to Record Electric Guitar at Home Universal Audio Blog

GearPetrof Launches the Discovery Line: A New Era in Affordable Acoustic Pianos Piano Buyer

MakersYamaha Launches “Guitar Tuner” and “METRONOME” Apps − Designed to engage with players and enrich the instrument-playing experience − Yamaha Music News

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