AcoustiTools for iOS: Using AR to solve live sound problems

Can an $18 iOS app can revolutionize speaker placement for live sound? The four modules included here use Augmented Reality and some pretty nifty tech to provide features we've never seen before.

Maker hart debuts beefed up Loop 8 mixer/audio interface

The new Loop 8 is a handy 8-channel audio mixer with a built-in audio interface, which looks to be a nice fit for setups involving small gadgets like the Korg Volca series.

ETHER: another weird object from Soma Labs – it captures electromagnetic waves

Vlad from Soma Laboratory produces some of the most wonderfully weird and fascinating devices. ETHER is an anti-radio that picks up the electromagnetic waves around you and turns them into a soundscape.

Igniter vehicle sound design: spaceships, sports cars, trucks and texture

Craft your own plane, train, rocket, bike, alien, chopper and automobile engine sounds with Igniter, a fascinating granular sampling and synthesizer sound design machine.

Washburn launches Nuno Bettencourt 4N signature model for 2019

Nuno Bettencourt, once guitarist with Extreme, has worked with the Washburn Custom Shop to update his famous N4 signature model guitar for 2019 - enter the new Washburn 4N edition!

Ibanez Jake Bowen JBM10FX: A budget signature guitar by the Periphery guitarist

This new lightweight high-performance signature guitar for Periphery's Jake Bowen certainly retains all the pro features you want, yet still manages to keep costs down.

Teenage Engineering open up about the OP-1 price hike

First the OP-1 was dead, then it was on eBay at vastly inflated prices, then it was alive again and now it's back with a 50% price hike - what's that all about?

4MS new modules let you plug in your headphones and Listen to your Eurorack

4MS has released the Listen range of modules which feature an expandable mixer that outputs modular and line audio signals and an I/O module that has a dual headphone output for you and a friend.

Rob Papen brings Rack Extension Vecto 4-oscillator vector synthesizer to VST

Rob says that they received so many requests to expand the reach of Vecto, their 4 oscillator vector synthesis based synthesizer, to other plug-in formats that he felt it rude not to. 

API The Box compact analog console gets a 2019 refresh

The stylish desk has eight input channels and eight 500 Series slots, as well as 16 summing channels (24 during mix) with LED metering. It uses the same circuitry and components as other API consoles.

Mellotronics Streetlytron Pro pulls decent Mellotron sounds out of your iPhone

If you have the room for authentically sampled Mellotron tapes on your iOS device then Mellotronics Streetlytron Pro will serve you up some classically trippy tape-based sounds.

12-voice analogue polysynth coming soon from GS Music

The image is only a 3D render but it shows the ambitious plans of Argentina based GS Music to make a 12-voice analogue synthesizer planned for September.

Another guitar made of 1200 coloured pencils – this time a Telecaster!

Burls Art has now made a Telecaster using 1200 coloured pencils and this time it has graduation in colour that makes it look more refined.

Possible CITES U-turn: Is Rosewood set for a comeback?

In big news for guitar makers, the UK's mia says that a proposal has been "nominally agreed" that would end many of the restrictions imposed on rosewood use in instrument making.

Zoom G1 Four and G1X Four: The ideal budget multi-effects pedals for beginners?

Two brand new budget multi-effect units from Zoom, the new G1 Four and G1X Four, cram in a bunch of effects, amp simulations, a tuner and drum machine for a very nice price.

Verv: Sunbaked Tape Loop Synthesizer with added degradation, wow and flutter

Verv is a string machine based on tape loops that have been left in the sun, on the dashboard of a car, in the desert, for the summer. It's wobbly wonderland of degraded sounds.

Gear companies abandon Ryan Adams over abuse allegations

JHS, Benson Amps and Walrus Audio are among the manufacturers withdrawing products from sale and although Adams has apologized via Twitter, he's now under investigation by the FBI.

Mutes: the first Eurorack module from modular guru DivKid

Mutes is a 4-channel performance muting module with momentary and latched mutes based on vactrols for smooth, clickless action. Perfect for switching audio and CV creatively through your rack.

PMC Audio IB2S-AII single and dual cabinet monitors shipping from March

Pro audio manufacturer PMC has launched its new IB2S-AII range of active studio monitors. It covers the single cabinet IB2S-AII; and the IB2S XBD-AII twin cabinet reference monitors. With both analog and ...

Teenage Engineering cancels orders on 170 modular synth and 16 sequencer

Citing a problem with manufacturing Teenage Engineering has elected to cancel and refund all pre-orders on the 170 Modular Synth and 16 Keyboard Sequencer.

Electro-Harmonix Mono Synth turns your guitar into a synthesizer

Have you ever wanted to emulate a Roland TB-303 with your guitar? EHX promises that you can use its new Mono Synth Guitar Synthesizer to reach that higher state - no MIDI required!

Tech 21 updates Richie Kotzen RK5 Signature Fly Rig to V2

The new updated RK5 Signature Fly Rig V2 is a new incarnation of Tech21's multi-effects pedal for Richie Kotzen, with added features and finally some modulation FX on board.

Joe Perry tweets about new Gibson Custom Shop Les Paul Signature Model

A new Joe Perry Signature model Gibson Les Paul that has Stratocaster elements? Yes, that is exactly how the Aerosmith guitarist is describing his soon to be released new guitar on Twitter.

zenAud.io brings ALK2 Arranged Live Looping sequencer to Windows

ALK2 takes the concept of the looper pedal into the arrangement space of the DAW and let's you pre-arrange your live looping experience. And now Windows users get to have a go.