Equipment News, Leaks and Tips
Ibanez NAMM 2016 previews
14 Jan 2016 · Ibanez are releasing lots of new lines this NAMM Show and also it looks like we will see some old classics return for 2016 as well. From new Signature guitars to Mini Effects the Ibanez stand should be pretty ...
Wudtone PRS upgrade bridge – with some bold claims
14 Jan 2016 · Wudtone are a small company in the UK that have been supplying guitar finish kits for a number of years. In recent years they have also started to design and manufacture high quality replacement bridges as ...
Celemony announce Melodyne 4 with new innovations
13 Jan 2016 · Details are emerging about a new version of Melodyne announced last night on Celemony's website.
New for NAMM 2016: Music Man James Valentine Signature Model
13 Jan 2016 · Music Man have released a preview on the forum of the new James Valentine signature guitar. They also mention that this is only one of eight brand new models for this years NAMM Show.
Keith McMillen releases the multi-talented K-Mix audio interface-mixer-controller
12 Jan 2016 · USB audio interface, mixer and control surface in one colourful, rugged and high quality package. The K-Mix is Keith McMillen's long-awaited solution for all your music making needs.
BeatSkillz Bounce aims to add thrust and punch to your beats
12 Jan 2016 · BeatSkillz' new compressor plug-in, Bounce, claims to offer something new and different: to control the range over which the compression acts. Bounce lets you select a frequency range using a fully-featured ...
New Godin Passion RG-4 Swamp Ash Bass announced for NAMM Show
12 Jan 2016 · The new RG-4 is part of Godin’s Passion Series and has been announced just ahead of the 2016 NAMM Show. Canadian guitar makers Godin today announced the new Passion RG-4 Swamp Ash Bass. The RG-4 also ...
Korg minilogue leaks: a pre-NAMM sneak peak
11 Jan 2016 · The internet has gone bonkers over some leaked images of a so far unofficial new Korg synth called the minilogue. It reports to be a fully programmable, 4-voice polyphonic synthesizer, is also equipped with ...
Yamaha Soundmondo Gets Reface Synths Sharing Sounds
11 Jan 2016 · The Yamaha reface mini-synths get online to save and share your sounds with a global community of users - it is called Soundmondo.
David Bowie died peacefully today
11 Jan 2016 · Some people just seem immortal, like they transcend life and the things that befall the rest of us. Somehow elusive, untouchable, unknowable and yet deeply embedded in our collective consciousness, the death ...
Reverend announce updated Pete Anderson PA-1 HB model
11 Jan 2016 · The Reverend Pete Anderson PA-1 HB Custom has a Korina three-piece neck, a graphite nut and locking tuners, Reverend’s Bass Contour Control and a dual-action truss rod
Fender Custom Shop 2016 models appearing online in the US
09 Jan 2016 · Fender release a new lineup of Custom Shop instruments every year the the NAMM show and this year will be no different. Wildwood guitars in the USA today put a whole load of the new instruments up on their ...
Tracktion Corp is reborn and releases Biotek organic synth
09 Jan 2016 · Biotek is a new "premium quality organic synthesizer" developed by Tracktion, Wolfram Franke and Taiho Yamada; their marketing uses images of awesome (un)natural beauty to try to reflect the workings of the ...
Polyverse Music and Infected Mushroom’s secret weapon – I Wish
08 Jan 2016 · Infected Mushroom and Polyverse Music announce I Wish, a new sound mangler plug-in combining pitch freezing, formant and pitch modulation and polyphonic wavetable synthesiser. Whew.
D16 Group release Decimort 2 high-quality bitcrusher
08 Jan 2016 · Decimort 2 is built around the idea that the Akai and Emu samplers of that long gone age of hardware samplers had a sound, an edge, that's been lost in software sampling. Decimort 2 brings back the grit and ...
Marshall to release a new amp range at NAMM?
08 Jan 2016 · There's been lots of talk and predictions over on the Marshall forums all day, and it all kicked off because of a mysterious back-page cover ad in a UK guitar magazine...
Devil Technologies bring DTouch for Cubase up to version 1.1.4
07 Jan 2016 · Touch support for Cubase and Windows?
WifoCorp taking pre-orders on the Remofinger G wireless foot controller with… wires!?
07 Jan 2016 · An unusual floorboard controller for guitarists or instrument players, the Remofinger has with no physical connection to anything and no MIDI or Bluetooth. Instead it connects wirelessly to its own little ...
Virtual Jeff – A whammy for practically any guitar
07 Jan 2016 · Virtual Jeff is digital pitch control of analog guitar signals Can be fitted to both Electrics and acoustics. And no routing involved...
Electro-Harmonix Lester G and Lester K deluxe rotary speaker pedals announced for NAMM Show
06 Jan 2016 · Electro-Harmonix have just announced a pair of rotary speaker emulation pedals. The two models are the Lester G and the Lester K Stereo. So these are more of a modern re-imagining of an old classic ‘60s ...
New Jet City Custom 22 head now with a more British flavour!
05 Jan 2016 · This new Jet City Custom 22 is a re-working of an earlier model the JCA22H. This time it has been tweaked by Martin Kidd. Martin is famous for his UK based Cornford amps and Victory Amps circuit designs.
PRS CE24 making a comeback for 2016?
04 Jan 2016 · A few US Sites had the PRS CE 24 uploaded for a few hours over the weekend. But all the pages have now been pulled down again. So could NAMM Show bring back the much loved CE range?