PEDALpUNK: Get your stomp box sounds into your DAW

Bored of your regular plugins? Now you can plug your favourite stomp box into your recording sessions.

Mastery announce new coloured hardware – Rainbow Bridge

A rainbow of coloured bridges from Mastery.

Eldred Audio unleash The Grendel, a new monitor controller

Named after a historical giant monster, is this a monitor controller to watch out for?

Launch into a larger world with MIDI Sync option for Novation’s iOS Launchpad

MIDI Sync your Launchpad app to other apps or external hardware with this in-app purchase.

EBS Billy Sheehan Signature Drive Deluxe: Some dirt for your bass

EBS lanuch a new updated version of Billy's drive pedal with some added features and customisation options built in.

Engage with MiXD 2016, the first national symposium on Music Interaction Design

The Birmingham Conservatoire is hosting an event exploring the relationship between music and technology

Puremagnetik bring back the 80’s with Jax – sounds from the Roland JX-8P

Missing some synth brass or lush pads in your 80's pop revival band? Jax might be worth a stab.

Z Series Babicz 4-String Bass Bridge- A lightweight bridge upgrade for your bass

A new lightweight version of the eCam upgrade bridge systems: A neat little upgrade for your bass?

Pop Audio reinvent the pop filter – how simple is this?!

How did we put up with fiddly pop filters for so long? What a simple solution to a problem we all overlooked.

GForce walk us down memory lane with Volume 3 of the Streetly Tapes for M-Tron

Volume 3 of The Streetly Tapes puts rarely heard Mellotron sounds into the hands of the computer musician.

Arturia MatrixBrute gets a UK street price of £1539 inc VAT

At almost half the price of the Moog Voyager, does the MatrixBrute have enough balls to become a classic?

Lambdin Guitars 35er 4 String Bass – How low can you go?

A bass with some 'sonic girth' and 35 inches of length. Not to be sniffed at.

Suhr Dual Boost – For those moments when you need a ‘little more’

When you need a bit more grunt and want to maintain your tone, a good boost is probably what you need. Does Suhr's latest offering fit the bill?

ISE 2016: Genelec launches the 8430A – the first AoIP studio monitor

The future is now. Audio-over-IP is gaining momentum and Genelec are joining the party, offering the first ever AoIP enabled studio monitor.

Gothic Instruments’ DRONAR finds its place in Time and Space

Drown in the warm embrace of cinematic textures, sci-fi rumblings and atmospheric intensity

Delay yourself for free with iZotope DDLY Dynamic Delay

You want an interesting, versatile and weirdly dynamic delay and you want it for free? Here you go.

Pure Salem Fuzz boxes: For all your acid rock needs

Pure Salem have announced a limited run of fuzz pedals at NAMM 2016 made in collaboration with 323 Effects.

Novo Guitars Serus T: vintage feel meets modern spec

Dennis Fano has unleashed his new guitar company on the world at last. It looks like 2016 will see some great-looking new guitars from this much respected luthier.

Focusrite complete the Clarett lineup with the 4Pre

Trailing behind the other Clarett interfaces, does the 4Pre hit the spot in terms of price and I/O?

Stam Audio SA4000 – Glue your mixes together for less

Looking for that famous SSL Bus Compression and not via another plugin? Well maybe there's a hardware option without the price tag.

Harness your inner Bach with Wavesfactory Demonic Virtuoso

It's a Harpsichord instrument for Kontakt apparently named in a competition, but does it sound any good?

Guitar Triller – Beat it till it hurts

No idea what they were thinking with this: It's a stick. At least, I'm pretty sure it's just a stick...

AIR Creative FX Collection Plus for everyone. Anyone listening?

AIR Creative Collection Plus introduces 8 new effects alongside the 20 included with Pro Tools, and is opened up to all other DAW's

A cool new plugin: I.C.E. by Sonic Studio – for those audio emergencies

Designed to solve distortions and other modern audio 'flaws', Sonic Studio releases I.C.E. (In Case of Emergency)