The David Gilmour Collection: See all 120 guitars in NY or via Christie’s Virtual Tour

Now is your last chance to see all 120 guitars in Dave Gilmour's collection being auctioned for charity. If you can't make it to New York then at least take Christie's Virtual Tour...

Morifone Guitars Quarzo: Based on a ’59 Burst with a spectacular Aileron headstock

Canadian boutique guitar maker Morifone Guitars has announced the Quarzo, a guitar based on a '59 Burst Les Paul but with an offset body and a spectacular Aileron headstock design. Check it out.

Fulltone CS-OCD-Ge overdrive pedal: The ultimate OCD?

The new Custom Shop Fulltone CS-OCD-Ge is the latest incarnation of Michael Fuller's famous OCD drive pedal made possible by a stash of 'unobtanium' Germanium diodes. Is this the "ultimate" OCD?

Audiothingies Doctor A: Desktop delay/reverb with MIDI and CV control

Audiothingies has announced the Doctor A desktop delay and reverb box. With assignable CV inputs, MIDI sync, and hands-on-control, it looks like a neat little box for electronic live sets, and more.

Gibson’s Mark Agnesi to guitar builders: “You’ve been warned” over copyrights

Gibson goes on the offensive against copyright infringement, with a stark warning to luthiers copying its designs in a new YouTube video entitled, "Play Authentic". And it's, well, a bit odd.

Sonarworks Reference 4.3 update adds dark mode, usability improvements

A major revamp of the Systemwide app aside, the freshly released version 4.3 comes with a good number of meaningful usability improvements. The addition of Dark Mode is the most visible among them.

IK Multimedia UNO Drum hybrid drum machine is ready to play

IK Multimedia releases their cute little hybrid drum machine with 6 analog sounds, 54 samples, 12 pads, 16 buttons, 64 notes, 64 patterns, drive, compression, stutter, rolls and a whole load of fun.

Boredbrain INTRFX is a box to bridge stomp boxes, synths and Eurorack

INTRFX is a little box with 3 channels that can send your Eurorack audio into stompboxes or feed your synths into your Eurorack effects modules and filters. It puts everything through everything else.

Logic Pro X 10.4.5 update raises the track count into the thousands

Following the 10.4.5 update, Logic Pro X officially supports up to 1000 stereo audio channel strips, 1000 software instrument channel strips, 1000 auxiliary channel strips...

Fender Rarities Flame Ash Top Stratocaster: A Plasma Red Burst tones down the bling

Fender's Rarities guitar of the month for June is the Flame Ash Top Stratocaster, a premium two-piece ash body Stratocaster in a mellower Plasma Red Burst finish than previous Rarities models.

Boss WL-60 wireless system: 14-channels, a big display and up to 25h battery life

The new Boss WL-60 wireless system uses a body pack transmitter and pedalboard-mounted receiver, has a large LCD display and automatic channel selection, so should be easy to use for live players.

Boss outs 4 new “premium” 200 Series effect pedals with delay, EQ, drive and modulation

Boss new mid-priced pedal range, the 200 series, includes the DD-200 Digital Delay, EQ-200 Graphic Equalizer, MD-200 Modulation and OD-200 Hybrid Drive. Will they be special enough to woo buyers?

Radikal Technologies DELTA CEP A semi-modular swarms into the shops

18 months since we first saw it demoed the Radikal Technologies DELTA CEP A Swarm oscillator based semi-modular polysynth with paraphonic articulation finally hits the streets.

Venn Audio V-Clip: A fully customizable clipping and saturation tool

Venn Audio has released V-Clip, the sequel to its successful Free Clip plug-in. V-Clip isn't free, but offers much more, including very flexible waveshaping options and a real-time visualizer.

IK Multimedia releases the Tape Machine Collection for T-RackS 5

Craving that reel-to-reel sound? IK Multimedia has released the Tape Machine Collection for T-RackS 5. It contains emulations of four classic tape recorders by Ampex, Studer, Revox, and MCI. 

Elektrofon Klang fabulously visual chord generator Eurorack module is released

Klang lets you dial in 4-voice chords with the 4 encoders surrounding that gorgeous screen and save them as progressions to pump throughout your Eurorack via individual voice outputs.

Gibson Lee Roy Parnell ’59 Les Paul Standard is based on his ’57 Goldtop

Gibson has just announced a new Lee Roy Parnell '59 Les Paul Standard signature model based on his Custom Shop '57 Goldtop, but available in an exclusive Abilene Sunset Fade nitro finish.

SUONOBUONO nABC: A MIDI and CV/Gate controllable sidechain compressor

Are you ready for some creative pumping? The SUONOBUONO nABC is a hardware sidechain compressor that can be controlled and triggered via CV/Gate, MIDI, USB, audio, and even a pedal.

Tritik Krush Pro: A bitcrusher plug-in with lots of modulation

Tritik has announced Krush Pro, a bitcrusher, wavecrusher, and ring modulator plug-in with a very capable modulation section. Krush Pro is now in public beta, and available for pre-order at 50% off.

Monoment Bass: modern low end noise, dirt and magic with a knob for aging

Monoment Bass takes curated samples from boutique synthesizers and combines them into huge pulsating sound sources for filtering, aging and driving into the widest modern bass sound imaginable.

Rob Papen digs out some vintage analogue synthesis with B.I.T.

B.I.T. offers 16 voices of dual oscillator polyphony with dual filters, LFOs and envelopes in a classic analogue polysynth virtual synthesizer that does everything you'd expect it to.

ROLI to reinvent the automatic accompaniment home keyboard. Maybe.

Are ROLI teasing some sort of instant, one-finger, auto-accompaniment, music generating Blocks style keyboard with a companion app into which you can download the latest tunes?

ZT Amplifiers packs a new Lunchbox with Reverb Combo Amp and Cab II

Built in Benicia, California, the new ZT Amplifiers Lunchbox Reverb Combo Amp and Cab II are the latest version of the American company's Lunchbox series of 100-Watt, high powered portable amps.

Kodamo unveils the 300-voice Essence FM synthesizer

Kodamo has unveiled a prototype of the Essence FM synthesizer at SynthFest France. It's a 6-operator FM synth with 300 voices of polyphony, waveform drawing, MPE support, and many other good ideas.