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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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Win a 75th Anniversary Fender Player II Precision Bass – here’s how to enter

September 15

Fancy winning your very own Fender 75th Anniversary Player II Sparkle Precision Bass? Right now, there’s a way, and we’re about to tell you how… Fender has just partnered with Music Venue Trust (MVT), which works to supp

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