Best free plug-ins this week: Snare Designer, Minus Delay & DeEss

Today on the list: all the snares you need in your life, an unusual delay and an important mix tool. Or in short: Puremagnetic Snare Designer, Bakuage MinusDelay and AirWindows DeEss.

Thomann #PracticeRoomDays Contest: Win upgrades for your rehearsal space

Terrible acoustics, no one can hear themselves and the beer's always warm. Sound familiar? Pimp your rehearsal room with gear won in thomann's #PracticeRoomDays contest.

fourMative CONTOURS: four single phase envelopes with complex combinations

fourMatice CONTOURS is a versatile four envelope phase generator that can create interesting curves and low-frequency oscillations that go on for hours.

Black Friday Fender deal: Get 10% off all Fender guitars, amps and accessories

Black Friday is nearly upon us and Fender want to get in on the action early. Play subscribers can get 10% off any Fender gear ordered on the company's online store.

Coma Reactor: a crunchy delay module that fractures consciousness

Animal Factory Amplification wants to bring a nasty, fractured delay module to your Eurorack. Coma Reactor will warble, spit and make you seasick in delightfully crunchy ways. Updated with sound demo.

EarthQuaker Devices Black Ash Endangered Fuzz – A rare bird?

The new limited run of the Black Ash Endangered Fuzz is EarthQuaker Devices' take on the classic Tone Bender fuzz/boost circuit. Limited to just 1500 units worldwide

Audified MultiDrive Pedal Pro – 12 effects pedals for $69?

This new plugin bundle comes with 12 emulations of classic guitar drive and fuzz pedals, which should be enough to keep you busy for a very long time!

Gibson The Paul reissued for its 40th anniversary – A ’70s revival?

The Paul comes from an era that was fascinated by avocado bathroom suits and had a fixation with the colour brown, but now it is 40 years old and getting reissued!

Tasty Chips ECR-1 to bring convolution reverb to Eurorack

Run your Eurorack through the impulse responses of faraway places or unexpected environments with the ECR-1 convolution reverb module from Tasty Chips.

Get foot control over the Ableton Live Looper with State of the Loop

State of the Loop brings hands-free looping to the looper device in Ableton Live with a natty bit of Max For Live control and a hardware stompbox. On Kickstarter now.

Gramotech Babylon: 48 EQ filters in one modern, colourful GBP 10 package

Cheap yet stylish, Babylon is a graphic equaliser with six filters, eight fully automateable filter types and a high-res spectrum analyser with two user-selectable rendering styles.

Fender Meteora Offset Telecaster: Madness or genius?

Back in 2011, the first prototype of this quitar was introduced as the Voyager. Now it has finally gone into a limited production run as the Meteora and seems sure to divide opinion.

3 Leaf Audio Chromatron: Hendrix filter tones in a box?

A brand new and tweakable filter pedal that spent 10 years in development, the Chromatron delivers analogue filter tones destined for the boards of those inspired by classic vintage tones.

Rava Yamana: 60 knob MIDI controller for analog-style VST synthesizers

PsyTrance producer Raphael Huber has designed a 60-knob MIDI box that lays out controls common to many analogue-style VST synths, helping you jump between them yet stay in control.

Reverend Guitars 2018 Limited Edition Tricky Gomez: Too Limited?

The new Reverend Guitars 2018 Limited Edition Tricky Gomez comes in four stylish new colours. It's just a shame this model is limited to just 10 of each finish worldwide!

Ernie Ball Music Man Steve Lukather Luke 25th Anniversary LIII

The Steve Lukather Luke model has always been a popular model, now they are marking the occasion with this Ernie Ball Music Man Luke 25th Anniversary LIII model

iZotope Nectar 3, Music Production Suite 2, Vocal Chain Bundle out now

Nectar 3 features the Vocal Assistant with Unmask functionality, Celemony Melodyne Essential, two new dynamic EQs, redesigned modules, RX Breath Control, and other goodies. It's a massive update, indeed.

Zoom Q2n-4K lets you film performances in glorious 4K video and 24/96 audio

The Q2n-4K is equipped with a 150-degree wide-angle lens and five field-of-view (FOV) settings as well as a color LCD display and one-touch recording mode. It also does 24-bit/96kHz audio!

Onde and Pyramid powered wooden soundboard resonators for your synth

Strap your synthesizer to a resonating wooden soundboard for the ultimate earthy, acoustically elegant electronic sound making experience with the Onde and Pyramid powered resonators.

PRS SE Acoustics A265 and A270: Attractive acoustic guitars at SE prices

This rather attractive run of PRS acoustic guitars will be available only in Europe for a limited time and will feature Koa or Pau Ferro tonewoods - a hard case is included, too.

Mackie ships its DL16S and DL32S digital mixers, releases Master Fader 5.0

Mackie has a new pair of digital live mixers with built-in Wi-Fi out, the DL16S anc DL32S. Both have built-in Wi-Fi networking and can be controlled remotely with the Master Fader™ control app. But then not ...

Fender Midnight Series: Three classy Strat, Tele and Precision versions made in Japan

Fender is preparing a new limited edition, the Midnight Series, encompassing rather classy looking Stratocaster, Telecaster and a Precision Bass versions, all made in Japan.

Ladies, your audio interface has arrived and it’s called Mirror

So it's 2018 and someone decides to make an interface "for females" that looks like a make-up box, complete with an integrated mirror and light. We wish this was a joke, but it isn't. Update - it's been pulled.

Bass Station II gets a firmware update to 2.5 on its 25th anniversary

A new firmware update for the Bass Station II brings paraphonic modes, filter keyboard tracking, envelope retriggering, microtuning and breaks the oscillators to make them a bit more vintage.