David Bowie died peacefully today

Some people just seem immortal, like they transcend life and the things that befall the rest of us. Somehow elusive, untouchable, unknowable and yet deeply embedded in our collective consciousness, the death ...

Reverend announce updated Pete Anderson PA-1 HB model

The Reverend Pete Anderson PA-1 HB Custom has a Korina three-piece neck, a graphite nut and locking tuners, Reverend’s Bass Contour Control and a dual-action truss rod

Fender Custom Shop 2016 models appearing online in the US

Fender release a new lineup of Custom Shop instruments every year the the NAMM show and this year will be no different. Wildwood guitars in the USA today put a whole load of the new instruments up on their ...

Tracktion Corp is reborn and releases Biotek organic synth

Biotek is a new "premium quality organic synthesizer" developed by Tracktion, Wolfram Franke and Taiho Yamada; their marketing uses images of awesome (un)natural beauty to try to reflect the workings of the ...

Polyverse Music and Infected Mushroom’s secret weapon – I Wish

Infected Mushroom and Polyverse Music announce I Wish, a new sound mangler plug-in combining pitch freezing, formant and pitch modulation and polyphonic wavetable synthesiser. Whew.

D16 Group release Decimort 2 high-quality bitcrusher

Decimort 2 is built around the idea that the Akai and Emu samplers of that long gone age of hardware samplers had a sound, an edge, that's been lost in software sampling. Decimort 2 brings back the grit and ...

Devil Technologies bring DTouch for Cubase up to version 1.1.4

Touch support for Cubase and Windows?

WifoCorp taking pre-orders on the Remofinger G wireless foot controller with… wires!?

An unusual floorboard controller for guitarists or instrument players, the Remofinger has with no physical connection to anything and no MIDI or Bluetooth. Instead it connects wirelessly to its own little ...

Virtual Jeff – A whammy for practically any guitar

Virtual Jeff is digital pitch control of analog guitar signals Can be fitted to both Electrics and acoustics. And no routing involved...

Electro-Harmonix Lester G and Lester K deluxe rotary speaker pedals announced for NAMM Show

Electro-Harmonix have just announced a pair of rotary speaker emulation pedals. The two models are the Lester G and the Lester K Stereo. So these are more of a modern re-imagining of an old classic ‘60s ...

New Jet City Custom 22 head now with a more British flavour!

This new Jet City Custom 22 is a re-working of an earlier model the JCA22H. This time it has been tweaked by Martin Kidd. Martin is famous for his UK based Cornford amps and Victory Amps circuit designs.

MXR EVH 5150 signature overdrive pedal launched

Eddie Van Halen and MXR pedals have teamed up again to bring us a signature overdrive pedal that claims to capture EVHs classic vintage and modern drive tones all in one pedal.

T-Tune introduce a new ‘internally aged’ Telecaster bridge-plate

As a logical follow-up to their new Intonation- Compensated 'Harmonic Bridge Saddles’ they have now announced a range of Telecaster Bridge Plates to go with them It all sounds a bit like ‘snake oil’ to ...

The Warthog and The Peacekeeper: new boutique pedals from ThorpyFX for 2016

ThorpyFX have just announced The Warthog Distortion pedal and the PeaceKeeper Low Gain OverDrive pedal. With will be available in February 2016.

Had enough Christmas turkey? Gibson Joe Bonamassa Bonabyrd Limited Edition

Gibson Custom has teamed up with legendary blues rock guitarist Joe Bonamassa to create the Joe Bonamassa Bonabyrd, currently available in a limited edition of 100 guitars worldwide.

Fender’s new BassBreaker guitar amp range to be launched at NAMM

So Fender have been teasing its new range of BassBreaker amps for a little while now. They officially launch at NAMM in January

660 Guitars announce new ‘The Patriot’ aluminium guitar for NAMM Show

660 Guitars from the USA have announced today that they will be introducing a new aluminium Patriot model guitar at next years NAMM Show.

Floyd Rose announces Rail Tail non-locking tremolo for early 2016

The new Rail Tail Tremolo is a dive-only tremolo designed to retrofit your existing Stratocaster style 6-point tremolo with no modifications to your guitar

Dawner Prince Electronics launch Boonar multi-head drum echo

The Boonar is an effects pedal designed to deliver the sound and feel of the legendary Binson Echorec, a multi-tap magnetic drum echo unit.

Dr.No Effects announce The RoadRunner: a new hybrid Octavia/Fuzz/Wah pedal

This Americana-inspired signature model for David Catching of The Eagles Of Death Metal fame certainly has plenty of options...

Elastic Drums and a bunch of other cool apps get Ableton Link compatibility

Some of the best apps on the App Store just got updated to let you key into Ableton’s new collaboration features, and you don’t even need to be running Live to use it. Is it a game changer?

The Revstar range has landed: Yamaha launch a huge range of guitars

Yamaha have now released this new range and boy what a range! Loads of new guitar models all bearing a similar design layout, which is loosely based on the classic Yamaha SG guitars (Yes!) and so look ...

Cycling 74 updates Max to version 7.1 with Package Manager, Snapshots

Max has evolved from being a fiendishly complicated software design environment for code-heads into a slightly more accessible coding environment. If you struggle with circuit diagrams, however, it’s ...

T Rex Replicator is finally released! Yes, an actual Tape Delay for under a grand.

After a long wait the brand new T Rex Replicator Tape Delay has finally been released. So how will this old school technology fit into a modern world?