Electric Sexy Drum Pants: Groove with your crotch!

A crotch-based drum controller, with the ability to lay down a groove with your pants. Why oh why?

New Daking MKII Recording Console is here!

There's a new pro-level analogue console on the market! Daking have designed an analogue desk for the modern DAW workflow, with 46 inputs!

Cog Effects aim to get down and dirty with T-65,T-47 and T-70 octaves

These octave pedals aim to give you a sound that will scare your sound engineer and generate enough low-end filth to rattle your audience's teeth...

The world’s most expensive bass?

OK, so it's rare. Very rare. But someone is selling this Gibson Flying V bass for a frankly ridiculously big sum of money on eBay...

How loud is your music? RTW release the MM3 MusicMeter

Supposedly at an affordable price, the MM3 MusicMeter is a new audio metering device designed for the music industry by renowned manufacturer RTW.

D’Addario Eclipse: (Yet) another clip-on tuner for guitarists

The US string manufacturer gets in on the clip-on tuner market, with yet another product added to an already crowded marketplace. But will the Eclipse be cheap enough?

ScrubBoard is back: Scratching with analogue tape

Intriguing and crazily musical, this failed Kickstarter from 2014 seems to be rising from the ashes like a phoenix, gaining exposure and possibly even a realistic road to manufacture...

PRS Private Stock 8-String Custom 24: How low can this go?

Periphery's Mark Holcomb has had a hand in the design of the August PRS Private Stock release, a low-end behemoth that will make you shudder and your wallet quake with fear.

Mune: An electronic instrument with an acoustic soul?

A new Kickstarter project based around an expressive digital hardware interface, the Mune has got Bjork written all over it.

ETHER Transmitter: Wireless monitoring for DJs and musicians

The freedom to perform without wires and know that you won't drop a beat: could this new Bluetooth transmitter finally untether the wired world of DJing?

Hamstead Soundworks Artist 20 MKII: A single-channel tone monster?

Updating its single-channel, EL84-based guitar amp, Hamstead's new MKII versions of the Artist series have a few added features that seek to add a little more flexibility.

Spectrus: Light up your fretboard

No more Spinal Tap moments when playing live thanks to this new gadget that attaches to your headstock and illuminates your fretboard.

Zynaptiq release new reverb plugin: ADAPTIVERB

Here's a cool new reverb plugin which claims to harmonically trace and 'fit' around your input signal. ADAPTIVERB also has a few party tricks on offer too.

RME update Fireface range with UFX+

This update for the UFX is RME's latest addition to its venerable Fireface line of interfaces for Mac and PC, and has lots of new features as well as a new price tag...

Mitchell Guitars to launch new range of electric guitars and basses

On the 23rd August, a range of new guitars and basses are being presented by Mitchell. A bold move, certainly, but what can we really expect?

First Z.Vex Candela user demo on YouTube

A rare user demo and review has surfaced of Candela, an amazing yet patently ridiculous candle-powered phaser guitar effect.

Pizza Hut DJ box: Deep Pan beats with extra cheese?

DJ Deep Pan and MC Stuffed Crust had a dream... The Pizza Hut DJ controller built into a regular pizza carton comes to life. Yes, it's real, we just wish it wasn't so laden with corporate advertising.

Meet the Behringer DeepMind 12 this Saturday at Modular Meets Leeds

The first public showing of the Behringer DeepMind 12 is this Saturday 20th August at the Modular Meets Leeds (UK) event - don't miss it.

Epiphone Bonamassa Firebird-1 signature guitar: Hot stuff?

Mr Bonamassa has good taste it would seem. A single pickup, classic guitar, released as a limited edition model for 2016, based upon his 1963 original.

Tech 21 SansAmp Bass Driver DI V2 – More low, more now?

With modern players now using 5 and 6 string basses, Tech 21 have updated their popular bass DI to accommodate these instruments.

sonicLAB’s musical sci-trip Cosmosf Stochastic Synth attains version 3

Beauty, philosophy, randomly probable and para-dimensional sonic universes are distributed in timbre space in the mind-bending Cosmosf Stochastic Synthesizer.

Railhammer Huevos 90 pickup: Blade-based P90 with less noise?

The latest bridge pickup from this boutique pickup company. Favoured by some smashing musicians, will these eggs crack under pressure?

CZtranger Things: Retro synth tones on your old Casio CZ

Dig out your old Casio CZ Synth, download these cool patches and turn out the lights. For added fun, add some Christmas tree lights for full effect!

Mixingtable create the Cirebus Stand for Circuit and Erebus

A beautiful enclosure for the Novation Circuit and Dreadbox Erebus makes a "Cirebus" stand that will turn your shabby studio into a hipsters apartment