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The Boss Cube Street II has all the features you need to play on the move - but there's one annoying drawback to what looks like a capable amp.
Can't afford an expensive microphone and preamp, but want to sound like the big guys? The Soyuz Microphones Launcher makes any dynamic mic sound like it was run through a vintage console.
United Plugins has introduced Front DAW. The input plug-in is meant to bring the sound of analogue mixing consoles to your DAW. And here's a treat: For a limited time, Front DAW is completely free!
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Little Mikey will bring your voice, instrument or guitars into your Eurorack for whatever weird and twisted moments of deep and modulated sound design you can think of.
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The cat is out of the bag: The Audient Sono is a desktop interface with a single 12AX7 tube on the inout and two notes Torpedo modelling tech to give you amp-like feel and tone.
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This fantastic new box of tricks from EarthQuaker Devices has everything you need for a complex pedalboard and more. Yes, the Swiss Things Pedalboard Reconciler is very useful indeed!
Joranalogue Audio Designs has introduced some studio-grade modules for taking audio into and out of your Eurorack. Receive 2 and Transmit 2 look very serious indeed.
So it's 2018 and someone decides to make an interface "for females" that looks like a make-up box, complete with an integrated mirror and light. We wish this was a joke, but it isn't. Update - it's been pulled.
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Reheated pizza the day after can be a wondrous joy. The re-release of Caroline Guitar Company's Hawaiian Pizza fuzz/OD pedal is a celebration of that delectable meeting of sweet and sour.
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More modules from the forthcoming Techno System - Dual Drive gives you 2 channels of 3 flavours of distortion and the Drum Stereo Mixer provides a destination for your processed beats.
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So you can't quite afford the new EVH '78 Eruption guitar? Console yourself with the one of these, the MXR EVH 5150 Chorus instead. But why does it have to be so wide?
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This cool little pedalboard-friendly mixer has enough gain on tap to allow you to overdrive all the inputs and outputs. Could the QuardaMix help you expand your live rig?
Developer Dimos Gaidatzis created Pen2Bow, an EUR 9 app that turns the Apple Pencil into a violin bow MIDI controller. The algorithm detects linear and circular motion, generating four MIDI streams.
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Joe Bonamassa has just announced a new (highly) limited edition signature tweed amp reissue with Fender that you can order exclusively from his website in April.
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This little 15W amplifier packs in an insane amount of effects, amp models and cabinet simulations, yet seems simple to use and easy integrate into your guitar set up.
Golden Age is introducing Premier versions of its affordable Neve 1073-style preamps, the PRE-73 and PREQ-73 Premier. Priced reasonably and built with high-quality components, these could eat up the market!
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10X is a fairly unique plug-in with a bad-ass mechanical interface. This plug-in is about placing signals in their own virtual space, and creating some pretty strange depth effects. Weird as it gets!
Created by drummer, audio engineer, and electrician Geoff Daking, the preamp basically combines a pair of standalone Mic Pre One units in 1U rackmount form. The circuitry is based on a classic console design ...
After last years launch of the HeadRush pedalboard amp modeller they have decided this year to follow it up with the perfect lightweight 2000-watt powered speaker.
Blue Cat Audio has announced a new amp simulation suite using tech from its Destructor distortion software, and it looks to be a comprehensive multi-fx and virtual amp solution.
Universal Audio is about to hit NAMM with a brand new audio interface called Arrow, its new "entry-level" 2x4 interface featuring one SHARC chip and is bundled with 14 UAD plug-ins.
Clarett goes USB - Focusrite has added four new interfaces to its range supporting USB, and they are priced very competitively. This package seems designed to deliver the competition a headache.
JoeCo's new Cello desktop interface will offer the picky professional a quality, compact unit with plenty of tech under the hood - and a $899 price tag for two mic inputs (and 16 ADAT inputs)...
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Boss has just released a premium 2x12 speaker cabinet designed specifically for their 100 watt Katana amp head, with variable porting and plenty of grunt.