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The release of Avid’s Pro Tools First, a free version of the widely used recording platform (also mentioned in Dan Daley’s “The Last Word” column this month) at the NAMM…
LOUD Technologies Announces Two New Sales Directors
LOUD Technologies has announced the appointment of Sean Humphries to the position of sales director, APAC Region, and Craig Lewis to the position of sales director, U.S. National Accounts.Lewis comes…
Casio Celebrates Lanita Smith
Casio America, Inc is proud to celebrate the winner of the fourth installment of Guitar Center’s Singer-Songwriter artist discovery program. Lanita Smith of Memphis, TN competed for the grand prize…
SSL Appoints Set Square to Lead Live Console Sales in UAE
Solid State Logic is pleased to announce the appointment of Set Square as its live console partner in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). The company, owned and operated by Dave…
Deering Benefit Concert on Star of India
Sail aboard the world's oldest active sailing ship, and a national historical landmark to celebrate 40 years of crafting American made banjos in San Diego! Deering Banjos is proud to be…
2015 NAMM Best & Worst of Show Awards
Best Intimate Musical GatheringTo say that MMR president/publisher Terry Lowe enjoyed Wednesday night’s D’Addario-hosted Jackson Browne performance at L.A.’s Swing House Studios might be an understatement: “Simply fantastic. To see…
Digitech RP360XP and RP360 Guitar Pedals
The RP360 XP and RP360 are identical except the RP360XP includes an expression pedal. Both provide state-of-the-art modeling of 82 stompboxes, 54 amplifiers, and 26 speaker cabinets. Along with the…
BOSS BB-1X Bass Driver
Crafted specifically for bass, the BB-1X offers a wide range of natural, expressive tones with an unmatched level of clarity and responsiveness. Low and High knobs provide expansive tone-shaping capability,…
Radial Engineering Bassbone V2
Second generation Bassbone features a dedicated effects loop, combination power booster-mute footswitch and piezo optimized input for upright bass. MAP: $349.99.radialeng.com
Eventide H9 MAX
H9 MAX, a studio processor shrunk down to fit into a stompbox. It features a simple, one-knob user interface and is fully-featured as a standalone stompbox. Using H9 MAX with…
Randall Distortion and Gate Pedals
From the bench of Randall head engineer, Mike Fortin, here are two more pedals. Continuing the focus on tools for the discerning heavy player, Randall delivers both an incredibly useful…
Electro-Harmonix Octavix
Electro-Harmonix introduces the Octavix, a pedal that delivers the definitive late1960s fuzzed out, octave up sound together with modern enhancements that update the classic concept. Housed in EHX’s rugged nano…