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NAMM 2024: LR Baggs launches lightweight sticker-mounted HiFi Duet acoustic guitar pickup and mic system, promising “a new era in acoustic guitar amplification”
This year's NAMM has been good for the modders already, and now the acoustic player has a top-quality non-invasive option for amplified performance from the latest in the Hi-Fi series
NAMM 2024: "This series isn’t just an evolution in audio processing, it’s a complete reimagining of what a pedal can be" – Gamechanger Audio is bringing modular synthesis to pedals with its MOD Series
"Your performance becomes part of the sound effect"
NAMM 2024: "To distorted misbehaviour and beyond" - Redshift 6 could well be the unexpected synth star of NAMM season
It's a 'Variable Character Synthesizer' with plenty of digital tricks up its analogue sleeves
NAMM 2024: “We have to take his brand and hold it with the utmost care and carry it into the future”: Fulltone is officially back, in partnership with Jackson Audio
And it the newly resurrected brand has a new drive pedal out with the OCD V1.4 – “an exact part for part recreation of one of the most valuable and sought after guitar pedals ever made”
NAMM 2024: “The ultimate platform to make boutique audio effects for musical instruments”: Aviate Audio unveils the Multiverse Player Edition – a ground-breaking user-configurable digital stompbox
Sync the pedal to the Multiverse Designer plugin interface and you players can create and manage their own sounds, find tones from other developers, and set the Multiverse pedal up just how they like it
NAMM 2024: Acoustic amps aren't cool? Taylor says otherwise with its Circa 74 guitar and vocal combo
Its first foray into amplification is a powerful statement
NAMM 2024: Keeley Electronics and Andy Timmons join forces once again for the Muse Driver – “a veritable drive workstation” for boost, tube-style overdrive and hot germanium fuzz
The Muse Driver Full Range Overdrive can be used as a clean boost, a square-wave fuzz, and offers many different drive sounds between
NAMM 2024: Harley Benton launches the PB-Shorty SBK, a 30” scale bass for beginners inspired by a low-end classic – and it costs just £103
Go, Shorty, it’s your birthday…
NAMM 2024: Blackstar refreshes its top-selling digital practice amp series with the feature-packed ID:CORE V4 now equipped with single-watt bedroom setting
Available as 40W, 20W and 10W, the ID:CORE V4 combos feature upgraded control panels and USB connections, and pack six amp voices into its compact Super Wide Stereo format
NAMM 2024: Positive Grid takes Spark amps into a whole new era for the stage with the Live Spark Amp and PA system, Wireless Control X and Link Guitar System
Spark has become a fully-fledged live rig for guitarists, vocalists, bassists and more
NAMM 2024: “A fitting tribute to a metal guitar master and one of his favourite instruments”: Gibson unveils meticulous Murphy Lab replica of Kirk Hammett’s 1989 Les Paul Custom
Heavily modded, equipped with black hardware, uncovered T-type humbuckers and a piezo, Hammett's “blacked-out” Custom is one of the coolest guitars in Metallica history
NAMM 2024: 5 super hot electric guitars you need to check out from the ESP Guitars mega-launch
Featuring Bill Kelliher's hefty new double-cut, thrash legend Gary Holt's red on black GH SV-200, a Junior-inspired singlecut with an ESP-exclusive Seymour Duncan humbucker and more
NAMM 2024: Roland’s Bridge Cast X adds video support to the dual-bus USB-C gaming/streaming mixer
Enhanced version trumps the original Bridge Cast by featuring HDMI ports and assignable control pads
NAMM 2024: “A lineup of instruments designed for the serious-minded, high-performance guitarist”: Jackson launches four Concept Series shred machines for the discerning metal player
The limited edition lineup includes a beast of an 8-string Dinky, a typically weaponised King Kelly, a classy Floyd-equipped Rhoads and – holy moly – a Soloist with 27 frets
NAMM 2024: Catalinbread revamps its Rangemaster-inspired Naga Viper, making MKII hotter and more practical, taking the treble booster circuit “to its logical limit”
Brian May, Rory Gallagher and Tony Iommi fans, the Naga Viper MKII might well be the missing ingredient in your rig
NAMM 2024: “One of the rarest and most coveted synthesizers in music history” - Korg is reissuing the legendary PS-3300, but it’ll be made to order and cost $13,000
The new version might end up being just as unattainable as the original
NAMM 2024: “Cozy up and immerse yourself in true stereo analogue delay” – Walrus Audio adds its feature-packed, MN3005-loaded Meraki delay pedal to regular lineup
The Black Friday special is now always on the menu, but owing to its more complicated build, it will be made in small batches of approximately 100 units at a time
NAMM 2024: “A genuinely unique experience” - a new Kawai keybed makes the Nord Grand 2 feel like a piano, but with advanced layering options, it can also sound like a synth
This looks pretty much as ‘premium’ as stage pianos get
