NAMM 2019 Special Rolling Report
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The latest guitars, the newest synths, the best studio tech – this week, NAMM 2019 will be our world! We’ll be working around the clock to get you the hottest rumours, coolest leaks and latest news emerging from Anaheim, California. This trade show is the focal point of the whole music instruments and pro audio industry, so if you’re looking for a new instrument or hoping to pick up some studio gear NAMM 2019 has products that will get your Gear Acquisition Syndrome going. Heard any rumours or product news we haven’t listed here? Drop us a line!
25 Jan 2019 in Studio
Somehow MOTU have managed to give us a Clip launching performance mode that offers something different and interesting - plus a ton of new content and other workflow and UI enhancements.
NAMM 2019: Earthworks SR314 live vocal cardioid condenser microphone
25 Jan 2019 in Studio
The SR 314 has a terrific 20Hz - 30kHz frequency response and is ready to handle as many as 145 dBs worth of stage volume. According to Earthworks, the microphone sounds rich and open.
NAMM 2019: Fuzzrocious Knob Jawn – That is a huge knob!
25 Jan 2019 in Guitar
Fuzzrocious make some strange and out-there effect pedals and this is certainly a unique one. Knob Jawn combines both analogue and digital octaves with a rather large knob.
NAMM 2019: Electro Harmonix Attack Decay – Its back!
25 Jan 2019 in Guitar
Electro Harmonix ' 80s Attack Decay is a bit of a cult classic and now in 2019 it is back and with a vengeance, Mike Matthews does it again!
NAMM 2019: Rob Chapman’s Snake Oil Fine Instruments pedals
Greetings, here we have a couple of new Snake Oil Fine Instruments pedals. The new The Very Thing and Marvellous Engine are all the work of Rob ChapmanNAMM 2019: Arturia cross a MicroBrute with Mutable Plaits and get MicroFreak
25 Jan 2019 in Synths
Arturia has borrowed some Mutable Instruments algorithms and given birth to a wonderful hybrid synthesizer they are calling the MicroFreak (adorable). Now with no-talking sound demo video!
NAMM 2019: Tracktion Waveform 10 brings Actions, Macros, Groups and a lot of plugins
25 Jan 2019 in Studio
Tracktion implements a lot of workflow enhancements to Waveform 10 to make it super speedy to navigate and edit. They've improved the multisampler, have got into floating windows and have 62 new plugins.
NAMM 2019: Buchla introduce Red Panel affordable Eurorack product line
25 Jan 2019 in Synths
Buchla swallows up Catalyst Audio to come up with Red Panel range of Eurorack series 100 modules to bring that Buchla sound to a wider audience. Now with a sound demo!
NAMM 2019: Washburn IDOL Standard 160 and T160
25 Jan 2019 in Guitar
Washburn has just announced the new IDOL Standard 160 and IDOL T160 are making their debut at Winter NAMM 2019. After last year's relaunch, the series is expanding.
NAMM 2019: Paul Reed Smith takes you on a tour of the PRS booth
25 Jan 2019 in Guitar
NAMM 2019 is packed with musicians, but luckily for us, Paul Reed Smith takes us all on a tour of the PRS booth before the madness kicked in.
NAMM 2019: FLAME MรANDER 4-voice desktop synthesizer and filter bank
25 Jan 2019 in Synths
Flame Maander looks like an impressive desktop synthesizer featuring 4-voice wavetable synthesis, a sequencer and a fabulous 12 band analog filter bank. UPDATED WITH VIDEO!
NAMM 2019: Fender โ62 Princeton Chris Stapleton Edition
25 Jan 2019 in
Grammy Award-winning Country artist Chris Stapleton gets his own signature Fender 'brownface' โ62 Princeton, hand-wired 12-watt amp and it looks sumptuous
NAMM 2019: Apogee adds a pair of Pultec EQs to its FX Rack platform
25 Jan 2019 in Studio
Apogee continues its NAMM 2019 onslaught with the announcement of new additions to its FX Rack DSP-Native plug-in platform.
NAMM 2019: Ibanez 40th Anniversary Tube Screamer
25 Jan 2019 in Guitar
The Ibanez Tube Screamer Overdrive Pro TS 808 pedal celebrates it's 40th Anniversary in 2019 and so the Japanese company has issued a ruby red limited version to celebrate.
NAMM 2019: McDSP APB analog multi-processor with software control and computer recording
25 Jan 2019 in Studio
Renowned plug-in developer McDSP is looking into entering the hardware realm with a promising and interesting product - a programmable analog processor.
NAMM 2019: JHS Clover and Whitey Tighty preamp and compressor pedals
25 Jan 2019 in Guitar
New JHS compressor and a preamp at NAMM There are also three other utility pedals an AB, ABY and a Summing Amp.