Erica Synths Joystick Controller: Play your modular like a video game!

Latvian synth specialists Erica Synths introduced another interesting modular toy to spice up your everyday patching. This is the Joystick Controller, which uses a joystick to drive your modular rig insane...

Viktor NV-1: a full-fledged synth running in your browser!

For an open-source synth running completely online, the Viktor NV-1 is impressively fully-featured with its three oscillators (with 6 waveforms each), noise generator, LFO, 2 envelope generators, LP filter...

Fortin Amps and Fredrik Thordendal issue the ’33’ clean boost pedal

Two years in the making, the 33 clean boost pedal from Fortin Amps is designed to give you some seriously tight high-gain tones - and it'll switch your amp channels too!

PPG Infinite: a new wavetable synth is heading to the iPad!

Definitely PPG's best-looking synth yet, Infinite is of the wavetable type. A modulation matrix and XY pads can be seen, as well as tons of knobs, envelopes, and a really cool 3D waveform display!

Leak: New Electro-Harmonix gear to include Superego+ pedal, new amp and cab!

A whole slew of new EHX products have been leaked via Instagram and it looks like the New York pedal builder has been very busy indeed, with pedals, amps and cabs to be added to its line-up...

Erica Synths lets you go crazy with DIY modules SWAMP and Multimode VCF

Erica Synths introduced two new DIY kits/modules, the DIY SWAMP and a DIY voltage-controlled filter. Both can do funny and musical things with control voltage synths, especially SWAMP, a crazy CV randomizer...

Daredevil’s Cocked & Fearless wah filter and drive pedal released

Combining overdrive with a wah filter that mimics that 'cocked wah' sound without all the hassle of a wah pedal, can this new offering from Daredevil beat a similar pedal by Electro-Harmonix?

Electro-Harmonix’ new Hot Wax pedal: Melting Crayons with Hot Tubes…

Hot Wax stacks two popular overdrive pedals for more variations to your drive tones. Seems like a good idea - if you don't mind the shared EQ for both circuits...

Yellowcake Lida Machine: The best Analogue VCF pedal for guitar yet?

A new boutique analogue filter, the Lida Machine has lots of control, some crazy sounds and a reasonable price - this may be the most compelling VCF pedal for guitar we've ever seen.

Gibson Custom ‘Burstdriver’ overdrive loaded Les Paul – Why?

The Gibson Custom Shop is clutching at straws with this latest gimmick and it says a lot about this great American guitar maker. Is this yet another step in the wrong direction?

Zoom teasing possible new recorder, to be unveiled on 3 August

Is Zoom about to update its R-line of digital audio recorders? We can't know for sure, but judging by this teaser image posted on Facebook, this might just be the case. Two additional images hint at ...

Gibson shows a chipped and damaged $4799 Les Paul on its website

Gibson has really dropped the ball with their brand new Les Paul Standard announced today, they have uploaded a promotional photo of a damaged guitar!

Amalgame by Inear Display: audio mangling fun with processing chains

Amalgame features 23 effects that can be hooked up in various ways and modulated by 6 XY pads - this promises to be a lot of fun if you want to artistically mess up your audio!

Hungry Robot’s The Monastery: A polyphonic octave generator guitar pedal

Another boutique builder takes on the octave pedal - yet this may have a more musical and intuitive approach than comparable units with two octave settings rather than the standard one...

Roland SE-02: The first reviews, user demos and shoot-outs are here!

Roland's recently announced SE-02 caused some shockwaves to ripple through the synth community - now the first demos and reviews are in! Sit back and enjoy some twiddling!

The Atom Smasher hacks the digital delay guitar pedal

So you want a digital pedal that will destroy your world? Well, this UK built and designed pedal will certainly crush your expectations of what a digital delay can achieve.

TabBank: Write, save, and print guitar tabs on iOS

This week will see the release of a new iOS app for guitarists that need to create, curate and share their tablature, promising lots of handy features. Oh, and it's free, too...

Ibanez BTB Bass and Premium Series get a cool boost for summer

With four new bass models added to its BTB Series, Ibanez adds some more smooth low-end tones to the range just in time for the summer.

Euclidean Circles Standalone: cool rhythms outside your Eurorack

Euclidean Circles generates complex interlaced rhythms through a simple algorithm of even distribution with stunning rings of bright LEDs. It's now available outside the Eurorack box.

Dwarfcraft Devices’ The Curse: an evil new twist on guitar delay pedals

Dwarfcraft Devices' The Curse is a new delay pedal with a Horror theme that allows for some mean and extreme settings going into dark sonic territory - your average nice little delay box this ain't!

Alexander Pedals Syntax Error: A crazy glitch pedal from the 80s dial-up era

When you use (abs(INPUT^3))^3. to create your distortion sounds, you know you aren't following the herd. This new effect from the USA might blow your mind - or your speakers!

Moog Minitaur analog bass synthesizer gets a healthy update

Version 2.2 of the Minitaur firmware brings in some very welcome modulation modes and waveforms and a nice bit of hard sync along with all the refinements we've been asking for.

Leak! Is this a Roland SH-101 Boutique?

Grabbed from an Instagram Story video posted in the middle of the night, could this be a Boutique Roland SH-101? Check out these images and tell us what you think.

Guild Jumbo Junior short scale acoustic bass: Too short for the low-end?

With a short 23¾" scale length, can Guild's new Jumbo Junior acoustic bass pack enough low end to produce some bottom-heavy tones? If it can, this could be a great travel companion for bass players on the go.