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.

← XLR MAG Archive

MMRIndustry

Is Everything in the Box?

11.12

A recording bundle has one job, as far as I’m concerned. If somebody gets home with the box on Saturday afternoon, they ought to be able to record something before dinner.

Read at MMR ↗

One letter a week, starting soon.

Latest

Is Everything in the Box?

More from MMR on XLR MAG

IndustrySchmidt Synthesizer releases Schmidt Vi software plugin as hardware production ends MMR

IndustryDonner Debuts Starfold, OURA J100, PlugOne, Viva and more new pianos and guitars MMR

IndustryRcf wins trademark and patent infringement cases in China MMR

IndustryMajestic percussion adds reflection and concert black Xylophones MMR

IndustryUnusable engineering ships currents & nostalgia software synth MMR

IndustryFriedman Amplification releases VX-30 series inspired by 1960s British amps MMR