It’s the pilgrimage that every music gear-head loves, the NAMM Winter Show. Every year in January, the world gets to see a heap of hot new products and announcements all from Los Angeles, USA. So, you’d be excused if you were confused by NAMM this year, it went completely virtual and the name
Earthquaker have announced a new pedal that gives the Miso Cornflakes module a run for its money in the funny product name stakes, the Astral Destiny is an octave reverb pedal that packs 8 different reverb engines with modulation and 8 presets. The 8 engines
Carmen Vandenberg has secured her first signature model amplifier with Blackstar, the CV30, a 2 channel, 1 x 12″ combo valve amp. Vandeberg’s bold and brash riffs in Bones UK vary from a more traditional driven blues tone to crazed industrial distortion, relying heavily on
Gibson has just announced the Kirk Douglas Signature Gibson SG, the guitarist of The Roots band and the Late Night Show with Jimmy Fallon, “Captain” Kirk Douglas is one amazing guitar player with a rich history of incredible performances. Now Gibson has named this amazing
As a successor to the JEM series, the Made in Japan Ibanez Steve Vai PIA guitar model was originally launched at NAMM 2020. The all too familiar bright finishes were very prominent but now much to the delight of guitarists worldwide and as as a
Spector have just announced the Dimension and Ethos series bass guitars today, the Dimension is a nod to the recent fanned-fret lineage of basses and the Ethos envelopes the electronics and finishes generally found on their high-end USA offerings. Dimension The dimension range finds Spector
Blackstar amplification have just released the third reiteration of their best-selling amp series, the ID:CORE V3 and we were lucky enough to have a play. The ID:CORE V3 series consists of small format, digital amplifiers with an array of tones and effects using a very
Bass lords Aguilar have just announced the Dual Ceramic Bar range in their Jazz and P Bass housing configurations. These passive, hum-cancelling pickups can slot right into your passive bass without any further tinkering / routing needed. The dual ceramic bars instantly produce a hotter signal
If you were thinking that the current tumultuous state of the US of A might slow down the world’s biggest guitar and amp maker, it seems you were mistaken. Fender have an enormous range of new gear incoming for 2021. Here’s a few highlights. Noventa
With the final phase of their announcements released over the weekend, lets take a look at a few highlights across the ESP 2021 LTD and E-II ranges that have been making our hands clammy with anticipation (or maybe it’s just that it’s 38 degrees celsius