NAMM 2020: AKAI muscles in on Roland with MPC One standalone

A standalone unit with a 7-inch multi-touch screen, the MPC One looks no less slick than its famed predecessors inside the studios of the rich.

Shadow Hills Mastering Compressor Class A emulates rare hand-wired beast

Improving on the hardware, the emulation brings M/S Processing, Mono, Stereo Width, Parallel Mix adjustments; a Sidechain filter and external sidechain input, and a scalable user interface.

NAMM 2020: Focusrite Dante-fies its ISA preamps, adds new expansion cards

Focusrite has upgraded its Pro range of ISA preamps and ADN converters for rack installations with three new products.

Teenage Engineering Ortho Remote for wireless volume dialling and MIDI control

Bored of NAMM already? Why not spend time spinning the Ortho Remote on the Teenage Engineering website. It will remix music and trigger stunning FX while advertising their new wireless dial thingy.

NAMM 2020: Ashdown The Ant and The Newt ultra lightweight pedalboard-amps

Ashdown Engineering has just revealed two new ultra lightweight 200-watt pedal-style amps. The Ant and The Newt cover bass and guitar duties respectively, perfect for gigging musicians on the fly.

NAMM 2020: Floyd Rose celebrates 40 years of dive-bombs

Floyd D. Rose invented the locking trem we all know and love. In 2020 the Floyd Rose company is celebrating 40 years in the business of dive-bombs with a special ruby edition trem.

NAMM 2020: Charvel Satchel Signature Pro-Mod DK Satin Purple Bengal

Steel Panther's Russ “Satchel” Parrish is an awesome guitarist and requires a subtle understood instrument for his art. Nah, just kidding he loves over the top finishes and tiger stripes!

NAMM 2020: Roland RD-88 lighter and more accessible Stage Piano

Roland has announced a lighter, more portable and more affordable RD Stage Piano called the RD-88. It takes the RD 30 year history and puts it in a gig and home-friendly compact package.

NAMM 2020: Charvel Pro-Mod Series San Dimas Old Yella

The new Korean made Charvel Pro-Mod Series Sam Dimas Old Yella will certainly divide opinions with its daring new finish, but it packs. a lot of punch and has some great hardware choices.

NAMM 2020: Korg NTS-1 Custom Panel synth modding

Korg has opened up the DIY nature of the NuTekt NTS-1 Digital Synthesizer with the NTS-1 Custom Panel and the NTS-1 Customizations Github resource to enable you to mod it to your own design.

NAMM 2020: New Charvel Joe Duplantier signature model announced for 2020

The Gojira frontman gets a new Charvel Joe Duplantier signature model for 2020 and it looks like it will handle anything you can throw at it. Made in Indonesia will these stack up at under a grand?

NAMM 2020: Moog Subsequent 25 details emerge

Another leak brings to light all the details on the new Moog Subsequent 25. Successor to the Sub Phatty and a very cool looking duophonic analog synthesizer.

NAMM 2020: Boss Katana-Artist MKII 100-watt combo

The new flagship Boss Katana-Artist MKII 100-watt combo packs in even more features than its predecessor and has enough power to handle stage work with its custom Waza 12-inch speaker.

NAMM 2020: 2HP Lunchbox portable modular systems

Super-thin Eurorack module makers 2HP has announced a very cool little Lunchbox modular case that can come standalone or packed with their modules in custom configurations.

NAMM 2020: Output and Barefoot team up for some beautiful speakers

Output has announced that it has teamed up with Barefoot to introduce studio monitor speakers later this year, and they're drop-dead gorgeous. Let's hope they sound as good as they look!

NAMM 2020: EVO by Audient – entry-level audio interfaces for streamers

Styled in black and green, the EVO 4 and EVO 8 look like pieces of Razer equipment in your typical gaming setup.

Novation Launchpad MK3: Live controller gets bigger pads & a sequencer!

MK3 brings aboard transport controls and other Live-specific shortcuts like Print To Clip and Capture MIDI, as well as eight Custom Modes and a Components Editor for deep customization.

NAMM 2020: Ernie Ball Music Man Sabre

Ernie Ball Music Man is launching a new Sabre model for 2020. With dual humbucking pickups and that classic in-house trem system, these could rattle a few feathers.

NAMM 2020: VENUE S6L-48D shipping, VENUE 6.2 announced by AVID

Avid is shipping the range-topping VENUE 48D, a five-engine, 48-fader behemoth at the top of its VENUE S6L series and releases an update to VENUE 6.2 with new features.

NAMM 2020: Chase Bliss Audio teasing Automatone CXM 1978

What is Chase Bliss Audio teasing on Instagram? It is called the Automatone CXM 1978. Could it be a re-imagining of the 1978 Lexicon 224 Digital Reverb?

NAMM 2020: D’Angelico Excel Series Throwback Collection ’30s style

The new D'Angelico Guitars Excel EXL-1 Throwback and Excel Style B Throwback models are both '30s style arch top guitars, loaded with a single neck mini-humbucker and they just ooze class.

NAMM 2020: Noise Engineering unveil three new modules: Virt Iter, Univer Inter and Desmodus Versio

Noise Engineering announces three new modules: Virt Iter is a stereo oscillator, Univer Inter a MIDI-to-CV converter and Desmodus Versio is a stereo reverb. Only a few details so far...

NAMM 2020: D’Angelico Premier and Excel Series semi-hollow Mini DC

D'Angelico has just announced a new smaller semi-hollow double cut design called the Mini DC. Launching during Winter NAMM and now available in both Premier and Excel Series.

NAMM 2020: PRS Private Stock 35th Anniversary Dragon

This guitar celebrates 35 years in the guitar business, a Private Stock instrument with an intricately inlaid dragon across its neck. Enter the PRS Private Stock 35th Anniversary Dragon!