New Vox AV Series Amps to be launched at NAMM

New for the NAMM Show 2016. Vox announce new AV range of amps with eight new analogue preamp tones and built in effects.

Vox announce Starstream Type-1 modelling electric guitar

An old 1960's classic Vox guitar updated for the modern age. The new Starstream Type-1 has 27 sounds and onboard effects.

Korg expand their Nano range of controllers into the studio

Korg's range of petite Nano MIDI controllers have been very popular with the space-challenged music maker. Now they are taking things to the next level with two new studio grade not-quite-so-Nano expanded ...

Gibson Memphis 2016 semi-hollow bodied guitar range announced

Gibson have announced on their website the new 2016 lineup for all their semi-hollow bodied instruments. Including Core, Studio and Bass lines.

Electro Harmonix Soul Pog: a combination of two popular EH pedals in one

The Soul Pog is a combination of their Soul Food overdrive pedal and the Nano POG from Electro Harmonix. Two already popular pedals combined, will it be a hit?

ESP launch new guitars and basses across their whole range for 2016

ESP have a huge range of new guitars and basses across all their ranges, all launching at the NAMM Show. From their hand built Custom Shop instruments through to their cheaper LTD ranges.

SoundIron releases Petroglyph and gets stoned like a caveman

Mining the cultures of primitive North American tribes Petrograph draws on the percussive nature of stones, tools and weaponry to produce an authentic collection of stone age percussion.

Ibanez NAMM 2016 previews

Ibanez are releasing lots of new lines this NAMM Show and also it looks like we will see some old classics return for 2016 as well. From new Signature guitars to Mini Effects the Ibanez stand should be pretty ...

Wudtone PRS upgrade bridge – with some bold claims

Wudtone are a small company in the UK that have been supplying guitar finish kits for a number of years. In recent years they have also started to design and manufacture high quality replacement bridges as ...

Celemony announce Melodyne 4 with new innovations

Details are emerging about a new version of Melodyne announced last night on Celemony's website.

New for NAMM 2016: Music Man James Valentine Signature Model

Music Man have released a preview on the forum of the new James Valentine signature guitar. They also mention that this is only one of eight brand new models for this years NAMM Show.

Keith McMillen releases the multi-talented K-Mix audio interface-mixer-controller

USB audio interface, mixer and control surface in one colourful, rugged and high quality package. The K-Mix is Keith McMillen's long-awaited solution for all your music making needs.

BeatSkillz Bounce aims to add thrust and punch to your beats

BeatSkillz' new compressor plug-in, Bounce, claims to offer something new and different: to control the range over which the compression acts. Bounce lets you select a frequency range using a fully-featured ...

New Godin Passion RG-4 Swamp Ash Bass announced for NAMM Show

The new RG-4 is part of Godin’s Passion Series and has been announced just ahead of the 2016 NAMM Show. Canadian guitar makers Godin today announced the new Passion RG-4 Swamp Ash Bass. The RG-4 also ...

Korg minilogue leaks: a pre-NAMM sneak peak

The internet has gone bonkers over some leaked images of a so far unofficial new Korg synth called the minilogue. It reports to be a fully programmable, 4-voice polyphonic synthesizer, is also equipped with ...

Yamaha Soundmondo Gets Reface Synths Sharing Sounds

The Yamaha reface mini-synths get online to save and share your sounds with a global community of users - it is called Soundmondo.

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 ...