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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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Gibson Victory Baritone: Tiefergelegte Gitarre mit ELEV8-Pickups

September 14

Gibson Victory Baritone ist die neue Bariton-Version der 2024 aufgelegten Victory-Serie. Das Modell kombiniert eine 28 Zoll-Mensur mit zwei neu entwickelten ELEV8-Humbuckern und wird ab Werk in B-Stimmung ausgeliefert. G

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EuropeHarley Benton SC Special Hybrid: Neue Single-Cut Gitarre mit P90 & Humbucker delamar

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“It’s the only guitar that I’ve ever had stolen, and the neck was like a ’50s Les Paul. It was amazing”: Noel Gallagher and Johnny Marr have a theory about Stratocasters – and one legendary Strat in common

Gear“It’s the only guitar that I’ve ever had stolen, and the neck was like a ’50s Les Paul. It was amazing”: Noel Gallagher and Johnny Marr have a theory about Stratocasters – and one legendary Strat in common MusicRadar

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