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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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Kit Plugins BB Chamber D Recreates Blackbird Studio D Chamber

September 16

Kit Plugins has released BB Chamber D, a reverb plugin that emulates the acoustic chamber from Blackbird Studio D. The chamber has been used on a significant number of commercial recordings, and the plugin extends the or

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