Plugin Picks: Techivation T-Puncher, Excite Audio KSHMR Chain, 3 deals

Plugin Picks is where we showcase plug-ins by lesser known developers, along with deals. Come see what we have this week!

AudioThing Dials brings Hainbach’s broadcast channel strip to your DAW

AudioThing has once again teamed up with Hainbach to bring the artist's unique channel strip comprised of test equipment to your DAW.

Elektron brings Song Mode to Digitakt, Syntakt and Digitone

At last, you can craft yourself a 3-minute pop song without ever leaving your favourite Elektron groove machine with the new Song Mode update.

Pro Tools 2022.9: free Pro Tools Intro, ARA 2, AUX I/O window & more

Pro Tools 2022.9 is out with the new Intro version available for free, as well as ARA 2 support, AUX I/O window, and further enhancements.

Midweek Modular: Cue mixing, Roland envelopes and stereo filters

This week's Midweek Modular sees a take on a Roland ADSR and VCA, a route to internal listening and a new standard in stereo filtering from Doepfer.

JHS 3 Series Harmonic Tremolo and Octave Reverb revealed

The JHS 3 Series has been expanded, with the addition of the new Harmonic Tremolo and Octave Reverb pedals, both priced at $99 each

Waves announces Spherix Compressor and Limiter for immersive mixing

Waves Spherix is a new dynamics processing plug-in designed for quick and streamlined work on immersive mixes (up to 7.1.4).

Fender Limited Edition Johnny Marr Jaguar in Fever Dream Yellow

This Fender Limited Edition Johnny Marr Jaguar in Fever Dream Yellow is a bold colour statement with some amazing specifications.

Universal Audio launches UAD Spark for Windows!

Universal Audio is following through on its promise to bring UAD Spark to the Windows platform. You can now run Spark natively on your PC!

Walrus Audio EONS: A Fuzz with 5 flavours

Could the Walrus Audio EONS be the only fuzz pedal you need? It has five flavours of fuzz and voltage control. Making it super flexible

Blackstar AMPED 1: 100 watt amp for your pedalboard!

Blackstar AMPED 1 is a portable, powerful and versatile amp solution for guitarists that need versatility and a compact feature-packed amp

Epiphone Tony Iommi SG Special: Budget Black Sabbath?

The Epiphone Tony Iommi SG Special is here and available on launch on both left-handed and right-handed versions, each with a hard case

Guitar Gear Gems: Fender Custom Shop 2022 Winter roundup

This week on Guitar Gear Gems we check out some of the new Fender Custom Shop 2022 Winter releases and see how creative they have been

Qu-Bit Electronix Nautilus: sub-nautical sonar delay

Nautilus is a complex delay network module inspired by the pings of sonar used in the navigation and exploration of sub-nautical environments.

Acoustica Audio Sounda makes the sound of top Italian producers easy

Acustica Audio Sounda is the first release in the developer's Fire series that's backed by Italian pros Salvatore Addeo and Don Joe.

Ableton 11.2 with improved Reverb device and AUv3 for M1/M2 Macs

Ableton Live 11.2 is out as a free update which adds improvements to the Reverb device and introduces AUv3 plug-in support for Apple Silicon Macs.

LEAK: Fender American Vintage Series II coming

Is Fender about to announce a new American Vintage Series II? Online Fender dealers and a former intern appear to have shared details of the new range

Introducing the Plugin Alliance SPL PQ parametric mastering EQ

We check out the new Plugin Alliance SPL PQ plugin. This high-end mastering plugin is based on SPL's 120V PQ mastering hardware EQ.

Laney LA Studio: 3 watts for £849?

The new Laney LA Studio could be the perfect studio tool for real tube tones for your guitar recordings. With it's built-in Two Notes Torpedo DI Out

Modular release bonanza from After Later Audio with 7 new modules

After Later Audio lets you build your own complex oscillator with the COCO series and tackles some Mutable Instrument legends with the MIC Line.

Noise Engineering Bundle 2: Complex, experimental and shape shifting

Noise Engineering has some new software interpolations of some fabulous hardware modules. Bundle 2 takes on Mani Iteritas, Loquelic Vereor and Imitor.

Befaco PONY VCO: Compact wave folding analogue oscillator

Befaco has a neat little new oscillator. It's called the Pony VCO, and it features wave folding, Thru-Zero FM, innovative tuning and a built-in VCA.

Twisted Electrons TherapSID MKIII: This time, bring your own chips

Twisted Electrons has produced the 3rd and final version of the TherapSID 8-bit synth and has gotten around the chip shortage by not including any.

New Harley Benton JA-Baritone and TE-69TL Thinline guitars.

The Harley Benton JA-Baritone and TE-69TL: Ideal for those seeing an affordable offset Baritone alternative and for T-Style Thinline aficionados!