Positive Grid BIAS FX 2 with Guitar Match modelling and new DSP engine

Will the new Positive Grid BIAS FX2 have all the features you need in one place? Certainly looks like PG is cramming in the features and the new Guitar Match feature looks like a lot of fun...

Keeley Synth-1 Reverse Attack Fuzz Wave Generator: Synthesizer tones for your guitar

Keeley aims to turn your guitar into a mono synth with the new Synth-1 pedal, including a handy expression pedal input, some fuzz tones and a Chaos Switch to keep things interesting.

Best free plug-ins this week: Four awesome toys for your musical playground

Here are four new free audio toys to play with that came out last week: Nembrini Audio's LoFi Vintage Clipper, Convology XT Free Factory, HY-Delay 4 and The Wave Weld for Ableton Live.

This woodworm infestation takes guitar weight relief to the next level!

That moment when you find a woodworm infestation while working on your Yamaha RGX 521! Is this the new relic look for 2019? It's certainly a less appetizing way to get a lighter guitar...

Convology XT Complete & Verberate 2 Stereo reverb plug-ins out now

Reverb fans are having a pretty good day with the release of two fancy plug-ins, each seemingly solid enough to handle your reverbation on its own for the rest of the year.

Fender Custom Shop launches Josefina hand-wound Tomatillo Stratocaster pickup set

The new Fender Custom Shop Josefina hand-wound Tomatillo Stratocaster pickup set is being touted by the company as its next big thing in '50s style Strat tone.

Joyo D-Seed II digital delay/looper pedal: The ideal entry-level echo effect?

Joyo's new D-Seed II is a stereo digital delay that's pretty feature packed given the price of under USD 90. Could this be the perfect delay/looper for newcomers to echo-type effects?

Steel Panther Poontang Boomerang delay pedal: Will this one get banned, too?

Named after one of Steel Panther's tracks the Poontang Boomerang is their latest effect pedal and is designed to be tongue in cheek with dated '80s Glam Metal humour, but is it any good?

Native Instruments reveals details about the Massive X software synth

In what is surely one of the most eagerly anticipated releases of a software synth ever, Native Instruments is finally telling us more about what the upcoming Massive X will be capable of.

JHS rebrands Ryan Adams’ signature VCR pedal as Space Commander

The new re-housed JHS Space Commander delivers the same combination of ’80s inspired boost, chorus and reverb effect that Ryan Adam's VCR. Just without all the scandal!

Twisted Electrons Deton8 is an explosive 8-bit drum machine

Twisted Electrons is bringing us Deton8, a little drum machine that uses a mix of 8-bit samples and wavetable synthesis - and it packs quite a punch as well as some clever ideas.

Iron Age IA-1222: A flexibility-first analog summing mixer

The USD 2000 summing mixer has 12 input channels, each with a switchable stereo bus and individual pan controls. In addition to the stereo bus, the 1222 has a second pair of switchable mono busses.

Duesenberg debuts Dropkick Murphys signature guitar and bass

Designed in collaboration with Murphys' guitarist Jeff DaRosa and bassist Ken Casey, these semi-hollow body instruments include a sweet box of goodies for fans, including a signed hockey puck.

Telefunken Alchemy series: Four new tube condenser mics (that aren’t clones)

Telefunken's new Alchemy series has four large-diaphragm tube condensers, the TF29, TF39, TF47 and TF51, including models "reminiscent" of classics like the U47 or ELA M 251E.

Patch & Tweak develops an online Patch & Tweak Editor

Kim Bjorn and Chris Meyer's Patch & Tweak book has given birth to an online Patch & Tweak Editor where you can layout and save your patches using the system of symbols introduced in the book.

#TSR19: Get ready for some electronic excess at Thomann Synth Reactor this week

This week's Thomann Synth Reactor #TSR19 event brings together 25 of the synth world's best known YouTubers for a week of modular madness and Eurorack excesses. Find out more here!

Intel Core i3 shortage may drive up prices on budget music production laptops

Considering buying a new music production laptop this year? With CPU shortages expected to drive up prices on i3-based budget models, we offer some advice for planning your next purchase.

PSP HertzRider: A frequency shifter plug-in that can also modulate

PSP Audioware is back with HertzRider, a tuning plug-in for non-harmonic material like drums and percussion that can also be used and abused as a sound mangler for other material.

Softube Parallels: Dual source soft synth pulled from a Swedish synth emporium

Parallels uses two paths of multi-wave samples from a range of fabulous synthesizers and blends them together with effects and modulation to give you an engaging and colourful software synthesizer.

Dubler Studio Kit takes pitch-to-MIDI into the future

Grab a mic and start humming tunes into the Dubler Studio Kit to control synthesizers and make beats with just your voice. Has Vochlea found a cool use for pitch-to-MIDI technology?

Audio Damage Enso is a looper plug-in to make your head spin

Inspired by hardware looper pedals, Audio Damage has released Enso, a looper plug-in that brings creative looping to your DAW or iOS device and comes with all sorts of good ideas.

GOLY PQ2 – a boutique stereo EQ with a Pultec vibe

GOLY Devices of Denmark has added the PQ2 tube equalizer to its portfolio, a custom-built stereo EQ that has a strong Pultec vibe to it, but is not a clone, GOLY says.

Equinox Synth: cheap as chips Eurorack project on the way

Rob Spencer has a plan to bring down the price of Eurorack using modern manufacturing techniques and simple designs. Could the Equinox Synth be the entry into modular you've been waiting for?

Edit and control your Behringer DeepMind 12 from your DAW

Momo Müller has pulled out the insides of Behringer's DeepMind 12 and presented them as a VST editor and controller so that you can dig deep and save all tweaks with your project.