Best Effects Pedals 2020: 10 Stompboxes You Need on Your Pedalboard

The Best Guitar Effects Pedals 2020! These glorious boxes by crazy scientists of pedal design produced sonic magic that brightened up our year.

Best of Eurorack 2020: 8 modules you need in your rack!

We were stunned by wonderful modules by Behringer, Cosmotronic, Expert Sleepers, Instruo, Omsonic, Qu-Bit, Robaux and RYK. Was your favourite among them?

Instruo saves Christmas by releasing their modules on VCV Rack for free

Jaw-dropping: Instruo adds 17 modules to VCV Rack FOR FREE, breaking the hearts of hardware fans and adding modular joy to our season of disappointment.

Best Guitar Amps 2020: From practise to gigging, these amplifers had us hooked!

The Best Guitar Amps of the year! These amps by Friedman, Soldano, Victory Amps, REVV, Bad Cat, EVH, VHT, Suhr, Dr Z and Supro had us hooked in 2020.

M-Audio intros M-Track Solo & Duo audio interfaces at €69 and €49

GBP 40 for a 2-channel USB audio interface plus recording software. Did M-Audio just end the race to the bottom?

Memory-V: a Christmas gift from IK Multimedia

Subscribe to the IK Multimedia newsletter and Father Christmas will gift you a copy of Memory-V based on the Memorymoog polysynth.

Plugin Alliance The Oven: emulating Maor Appelbaum’s USD 6500 analog mojo box

Plugin Alliance is emulating The Oven, a USD 6500 (!) saturation processor built by Hendy Amps for mastering engineer Maor Appelbaum.

Native Instruments wishes you happy holidays with free YANGQIN instrument

This holiday season, Native Instruments is giving you YANGQIN, a traditional Chinese dulcimer, for free! They're also throwing in a $25 voucher.

Erica Synths dabbles in West Coast vibes with the Black LPG

Erica Synths says their take on the classic LPG is great for waveshaping, beat refining and carving of low frequencies with a nicely explosive resonant overdrive.

Goliath V2: Four analog saturation chains with EQ and FET compression

Goliath grows: V2 of Tone Empire's plug-in has 4 types of analog-modeled saturation, a parametric EQ, and a 1176-based FET compressor in one plug-in.

Crumar Performer: Italian polyphonic String Machine captured

Crumar has released an authentic emulation of their classic 1979 string machine Performer. The deluxe version comes with a t-shirt!

Burls Art Coffee Bean Guitar: Smell the full-roasted tone!

Burls Art has made an Explorer-style guitar from roasted coffee beans - and apparently it smells great! Check out this caffeine-infused build video!

TC Electronic PLETHORA X5 1.2 Update adds Helix Phaser, Viscous Vibe and more

The new TC Electronic PLETHORA X5 1.2. firmware update adds the Helix Phaser, Viscous Vibe, a Tape Deck Looper and a host of new control features.

Beware the “Modorro Alphawave Tracker” scam!

Looks like there's a scam centred on Polyend's Tracker doing the rounds - Facebook served us up an ad for a deal that's too good to be true...

Maxon debuts new SSD-9 by Susumu Tamura, Fortin launches new OD-9 mod version

The new Maxon Custom Shop SSD-9 was born after a happy accident involving Scott Henderson's rig - plus there's a new Mike Fortin OD-9 Overdrive!

Noisy: Expressive E gets out of character with a raucously expressive synth

An unexpectedly fruity software synth from Expressive E. Noisy looks surprisingly groovy and offers an expressive dive into physical modelling and subtractive synthesis.

Gibson launches giveaway themed for Marceline, The Vampire Queen

Gibson and Adventure Time: Distant Lands have teamed up to bring us these Marceline, The Vampire Queen models

Free until December 31: Cableguys expands ShaperBox with DriveShaper

Grab Cableguys' new multi-band distortion and saturation effect for free until December 31!

Holiday Season Raffle #5: Win a pair of ADAM Audio T8V monitors (closed)

Win a pair of ADAM Audio's excellent T8V powered monitors, with an 8" woofer, Class D amplifier an U-ART tweeter in our Holiday Season Raffle!

PeacePoti: Lock in your favourite pedal settings

Tired of accidentally nudging your pedal's controls without meaning to? The PeacePoti offers a new way to secure your favourite stompbox settings.

Teenage Engineering OP-Z app update greases the wheels of photomatic mode

Why, this OP-Z is photomatic, it's systematic, it's hydromatic - it's..... an app update for images and video.

Baby Audio Spaced Out: A modern space echo for the algorithmic age

Spaced Out is an slick, ambitious plug-in which presents a modern take on vintage "space echo" effects like the Roland RE-201 and the Binson Echorec.

Fuse Audio Labs VPRE-31A: A souped-up Germanium transistor preamp plug-in

This rough-around-the-edges preamp oozes musicality - could this be your next go-to colouration plug-in to add analogue vibe to your mixes?

Keeley Artist Series Daniel Donato Cosmic Country Phaser: Psychedelic Country Picking!

The Keeley Daniel Donato Cosmic Country Phaser is the latest in their Artist Series and has three phaser stages to play with.