Furch Guitars adds new antibacterial treatment for guitar necks

Inspired by the current COVID concerns, Furch Guitars has developed a new antibacterial varnish containing silver nanoparticles that kills microorganisms.

Black Joystick2: Grab control of your Eurorack mothership

The Erica Synths Black Joystick2 pumps out 8 channels of finger fiddling CV in all directions, 4 channels of motion recording, drones and LFOs.

Sound Magic Headphone Mix 4 emulates monitor speakers on your headphones

Mixing on headphones can be tricky. Sound Magic Headphone Mix 4 uses a combination of techniques to create the illusion that you're listening to monitor speakers.

WA Production Biggifier: A new one-knob mix plug-in for fat sounds

Biggifier recreates five effects chains used by producer Jonas Aden in the one-knob format: it's designed to fatten, thicken and creamify your mixes.

Epiphone updates its Emperor Swingster hollowbody models with metallic finishes

Get your inner rockabilly on with these Epiphone Emperor Swingster hollowbody models - now in some sweet new metallic finishes!

Accentize SpectralBalance automatically EQs your speech recordings

Achieving clear, consistent speech recordings can be tricky. Accentize SpectralBalance uses neural networks to adapt the EQ curve in the blink of an eye.

Rickenbacker celebrates 90 years with new guitar and bass models

Switched at birth? The 480XC guitar and 4005XC bass look like their blueprints were mistakenly swapped at the factory - here's what we know so far.

Ableton Live 11 is coming on February 23 – and you can try it now!

Ableton has announced that Live 11 will be released on February 23. But you don't have to wait that long: Join the public beta and try the new version of the DAW for free!

Behringer opens pre-orders on Blue Marvin and Gray Meanie 2600 limited editions

Not content with their 2600 clone Behringer rolls out the more nuanced 2600 Blue Marvin and Gray Meanie versions of the classic ARP synthesizer. UPDATE: Preorders are open!

Don’t slash your speakers! Get the new Electro-Harmonix Ripped Speaker pedal instead

The new Electro-Harmonix Ripped Speaker will get you that Link Wray or Dave Davies sound without having to take a knife to your speakers!

Old Blood Noise Endeavors Split | Meld – a passive routing solution for stompboxes

The new Old Blood Noise Endeavors Split | Meld is a passive design 'audio routing solution' that lets you get creative with your stompbox audio signals.

Klerhaim N1: Analog synthesizer plugin that emulates circuit behaviour

From Eplex7 DSP comes a study in real analog synthesis circuitry that they've developed into the Klerhaim N1 analog software synthesizer.

Audeze Euclid: Listen in style with these $1300 closed-back earphones

Audeze has taken its planar driver technology and stuck it into a pair of closed-back earphones. The Audeze Euclid earphones may be expensive, but the tech is impressive.

Metal fan makes a guitar out of his dead uncle’s bones

A working electric guitar, made out of a real human skeleton: Prince Midnight turned uncle Filip's bones into the Filip Skelecaster!

Leapwing Al Schmitt Signature Plugin: the legendary engineer’s sound in your DAW

Leapwing has teamed up with Al Schmitt to create the Al Schmitt Signature Plugin. Can software bring the engineer's famously natural sound to your DAW?

Novation Circuit Rhythm: First official details revealed

Sampling, beat-making and performance are the cornerstones of the officially revealed Circuit Rhythm but we won't see it until the summer.

Strandberg announces new Plini and Per Nilsson signature models

Both the new Plini and Per Nilsson signature models from Strandberg look pretty amazing and offer some unique design choices.

Novation Circuit Tracks: The modern, intuitive groovebox

The time has arrived for Novation to fully reveal the new version of their popular groovebox. Does the Circuit Tracks have something new to offer?

Trident turns its CB9066 and 80B hardware equalizers into plug-ins!

Famed console and outboard gear manufacturer Trident is going digital with emulations of its CB9066 and 80B vintage hardware equalizers.

United Plugins Orbitron: advanced modulation plug-in at a 78% discount!

Orbitron wants to make modulation great again with the ability to crossfade between four different modulation effects.

Vollume Control: a new media manager designed for online collaboration

Tired of losing track of your audio files when collaborating online? Vollume Control is a new media manager app that could make things a lot easier.

Jumble Henge: 16 input stereo placed and spectrally filtered mixer in 8HP

Super spacially efficient mixer module with 16 inputs and uniquely fixed pan positions and filtering for instantly rich stereo and spectrally interesting mixes.

Cort takes aim at Ibanez’s AZ Series with the G300 Pro

If you thought Cort was only about budget guitars, think again: the G300 Pro has some great specs that put it in competition with brands like Ibanez.

New Hughes and Kettner AmpMan Classic and Modern pedalboards launched

The new 50 Watt AmpMan Classic and Modern from Hughes and Kettner use their analogue Spirit Tone Generator system