Nektar stun us with Impact GX49 and GX61 Controller Keyboards

Do MIDI Controller Keyboards have to do everything these days or can they be simple and unfussy like these ones from Nektar?

Panama Guitars’ new Fuego 15 X head: More gain, small price

A boutique-spec'd metal amp for the price of a mass-produced amp? Hand made in Panama, these new 15-Watt guitar heads certainly look very flexible for the money.

D16 tell us the Frontier is versatile and self-adaptive

It feels good to be acknowledged as a valued customer. Should more companies should follow D16's lead and reward us with a freebie plugin?

RJR ‘standard’ hand-built BAX EQ ready to ship

Regular John Recording (RJR), who have been hand-building customised pro audio equipment since 2007, are now offering a limited number of off-the-shelf units.

Novation Components opens up its Circuit

Creating outside the box, in another box is now expanding outside the confines of the original box with a new suite of tools

Under Tone Audio Vari-Cap Guitar Cable – 16 tones in one cable

Possibly the most ridiculous product of the week? Surely this would have been better in a different format? You decide.

One knob to rule them all

Don't let the professionals tell you that mixing is hard - all you need to do is dial in some Charisma from my signature edition MixFixer plug-in.

Plugins for knobs

How many more 'one-knob' style plugins do we need? Who needs a professional anyway? Check out my latest 'Perfectizer' plugin!

New ‘un-hyped’ Aurora studio condenser mic from Roswell Pro Audio

Roswell are a new and interesting microphone manufacturer, built on plenty of R&D. Here's their latest offering, which seems to be a well-built all-rounder.

Musikmesse 2016: The present and future of Europe’s biggest MI trade show

Musikmesse 2016 turned out to have a few highlights, as well as a few, well, lowlights. What was it like wandering around the show, and what future does Musikmesse have in the internet age? Our very own ...

Audiority add new ‘Shimmer’ effect to updated Polaris Reverb Plugin

Audiority updates Polaris echo/reverb plugin to v1.1 bringing some creative new features alongside the usual bug fixes.

Ibanez Artcore and Artstar Vintage range of hollow-bodied distressed guitars and basses

The new for 2016 Ibanez Artcore Vintage range of distressed semi-hollow guitars and basses will definitely divide opinion. This new series includes heavily 'aged' instruments made to look very used indeed.

Dynaudio’s LYD Personal Monitors: Room for reservations?

The highly acclaimed professional monitor company release new 'personal' monitor range, but what's going on inside?

World Famous Jensen Transformers release new ISO-MAX DI Boxes

Four new passive DI boxes are added to Jensen's ISO-MAX range and feature "internal Faraday shielding", converting any Hi-Z input to balanced mic level.

Waves eliminate feedback with the X-FDBK plug-in

Put yourself out of a job with Waves automatic feedback eliminator and turn everything up to 11.

Musikmesse 2016: Mooer Devin Townsend Ocean Machine Delay and Reverb pedal

This pedal looks like it could be a groundbreaking ambient effect unit, developed with the legendary guitar player and one time wearer of the almost as legendary skullet!

Echopark Dual-Harmonic Boost pedal

A new high quality boutique dual pedal for boosting you guitar signal. Based on a '70s classic and a boutique modern boost.

Top of the line AKG K872 Headphones released at Musikmesse 2016

These new headphones from AKG offer a closed-back solution, drawing on the success their top model, the K812.

HOFA gives us a new balancing act with the 4U+ DynamicTiltEQ

Lean it to the left or lean it to the right for some instant tonal gratification, and it's free (mostly).

Molecular Bytes announce AtomicTransient for tooling polyphonic transients

Teasing a tool for transient reshaping and envelope overwriting - we need more information!

We say farewell to Zenon Schoepe (of Resolution magazine)

This news comes as a shock to many as he was seen only last week at Musikmesse. Zenon was a strong figure in our industry and will be greatly missed.

Audiothing release Speaker to overdrive your audio

Need to sound like you're coming out of that Fisher Price radio you had as a kid then this is what you need.

Mooer Reverie Chorus and Reverb: two new twin pedals

New for 2016: the Reverie series of twin pedals pack a lot of features into a fairly small format, and could be a good way of cramming a lot of effects onto a crowded pedalboard.

Gibson 2016 Limited Edition lineup

The 2016 Limited Edition guitars are all now released and there are some really cool, interesting looking guitars. Some old favourites have returned as well.