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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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KISS Announce Rock and Roll Over 50th Anniversary Box Set Featuring 100 Rare Tracks

September 15

KISS have announced a 50th anniversary box set edition of their 1976 album Rock and Roll Over, set for release November 6th. The set, available for pre-order here, includes a new set of mixes by original producer and eng

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DAW & pluginsElectro-Harmonix releases the Adrian Belew Echoflanger KVR Audio News

SynthsMeet PHOSPHOR - A Plugin With OVER $287,000 Worth of Rare Vintage Synth Samples MatrixSynth

GearSteinberg, Universal Audio, Native Instruments: 3 Strong Software Deals — DAW, Tape Machines, and Guitar Amps Gearnews

GearEHX Adrian Belew Echoflanger: The Legendary King Crimson effect is back – but limited! Gearnews

ScenesBeverly Glenn-Copeland announces 40th anniversary reissue of Keyboard Fantasies The Line of Best Fit

“John and Paul weren’t interested. The next day I was in a car with Eric Clapton and said, ‘Why don’t you come and play on this track?’” George Harrison on the Beatles classic saved by Slowhand

Guitars“John and Paul weren’t interested. The next day I was in a car with Eric Clapton and said, ‘Why don’t you come and play on this track?’” George Harrison on the Beatles classic saved by Slowhand Guitar World

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