Teenage Engineering M-1: foldable, voice sampling headphones for OP-Z

Teenage Engineering has come up with some headphones that pair nicely with the OP-Z and other devices for on-the-move music listening and music-making.

KISS my signature! Epiphone launches Tommy Thayer Electric Blue Les Paul

Epiphone's new Tommy Thayer Electric Blue Les Paul is an eye-popping new model in a blue, sparkly finish. This new signature model screams for attention. Can it win over anyone who's not a KISS fan?

Best Eurorack Modules 2019: Top 5 Modular Synths and Effects

Eurorack modular continues to generate interesting pathways into sound and synthesis and is becoming more accessible all the time. Here's our choice of modules that stood out this year.

Boss SY-1000: An expansive – and expensive – new guitar synth floor pedal

Boss has just unveiled its most powerful guitar and bass synthesizer system to date, the SY-1000. Yup, it packs in a lot of features and has an epic-looking blue frame. But is it simply too expensive?

Korg teases a New Legendary Synthesizer Recreation

It's Korg's turn to tease with a little video on the Korg UK Instagram channel. It reports to be a "New Legendary Synthesizer Recreation" and Korg says that "something super exciting is coming!"

Tesseract Modular Radioactive: toxic analog modelling digital oscillator

Radioactive is a 6HP digital chiptune-inspired synth voice for Eurorack with 5 different waveshaping modes, 3 oscillators with selectable waveforms, multi-mode envelope, quantizing and slew.

Waldorf Quantum Shadow Limited Edition anniversary synth

Waldorf Music celebrates 30 years in the business with a very limited edition version of what they are calling the Quantum Shadow. They will make only 30.

Tesseract Modular Sweet Sixteen Eurorack MIDI controller

Tesseract has taken the Open Source 16n Faderbank project and respun it into a Eurorack module with 16 CV inputs and outputs, MIDI and USB MIDI, and I2C connections.

Pittsburgh Modular releases the Analog Delay from the Voltage Lab

Pittsburgh has released a neat and perfectly formed bucket brigade "Analog Delay Unit" taken straight from the Lifeforms Voltage Lab modular synthesizer. 

The Mad Professor Super Black: A Blackface amp in a pedal (and a bit of a bargain)

Mad Professor's new Super Black is a Fender Blackface amp-in-a-box pedal, adding classic '60s valve amp sounds to your favourite guitar amp. Plus, it has a built-in overdrive pedal too!

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Former Catalinbread mastermind Howard Gee is building a new fuzz pedal!

Mr Kittycastermusic aka Howard Gee almost vanished from the pedal scene after leaving Catalinbread. But is a new fuzz pedal in thew works? Are we witnessing the birth of a new pedal company?

EarthQuaker Devices Sunn O))) LifePedal 2019 Silver: The final limited edition!

Back for a final limited run of 250 units, one of the most sought-after pedals around is back. Miss out on the last Black or Gold editions? Here is a last chance to grab a limited edition version.

Waves Abbey Road Saturator: analogue console saturation for your DAW

Waves has released the Abbey Road Saturator plug-in, based on saturation chains from two of the studio's vintage EMI consoles. It also includes the EMI TG12321 Compander circuit for pre-saturation signal ...

DNIPro DOT Polyrhythm: a striking 3-channel pattern generator

DOT is a compact and rather lovely looking Eurorack module that can generate up to 3 channels of trigger patterns either Euclidean or entered by hand. Interesting patterns are bound to ensue.

Colour your space with Perfect Room de-metalized reverb and Slappy hysteresis delay

Perfect Room (reverb) and Slappy (delay) appear just in time for the Black Friday frenzy, the latter being a free download with the former.

Berzerk distortion plug-in is the mean Waves freebie for Black Friday

A free download until Nov. 30, Berzerk is a pretty wild distortion plug-in that features creative and advanced controls like random waveshapes and M/S processing.

Behringer unveils the SL 84C, a Shure microphone clone for 11 bucks

A vocal mic for 11 bucks? Eh, what? The Behringer SL 84C, BA 85A, SL 85S and SB 78A look very similar to various classics from Shure, yet all four of them together cost less than 90 US dollars.

Mesa/Boogie Mark Five: 25 1×10 combo – Small footprint, huge tone

The new Mark Five: 25 1x10 combo is Mesa/Boogie's way of condensing its flagship combo yet retaining all the classic tube tone you would expect from a Mk V amp.

Arturia MatrixBrute gets even better with Firmware 2.0

Arturia has released a major update to their flagship synthesizer the MatrixBrute. It tackles many of the requests and bugs and improves the modulation engine, sequencer and preset management.

OMG! Bastl Instruments has a mutes – LOL!

Somewhere, lost in the realms of internet shorthand Bastl Instruments has released an unfortunately named passive mute module called LOL.

Sampleson Push: Generative sounds at the push of a button

Sampleson has released a one-button polyphonic synthesizer called Push. It will create a new patch every time you hit the button - it doesn't get much simpler than that and it's completely free.

New Leslie rotary speaker effect pedals for guitar: Neo Micro Vent 122 and 16 pedals

Due out early 2020, these two new Leslie simulator micro pedals from Neo Instruments are based on the classic Leslie 122 rotary speaker and the Fender Vibratone. And they sound pretty juicy, too.

Audiaire Zenith: a super-flexible MIDI parameter sequencer plug-in

Audiare has released Zenith, a very flexible MIDI plug-in. Zenith serves up sequences, arpeggios and chords and comes with presets for your favourite hardware and software synths.