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D’Addario Accessories’ Custom Series Flat Patch Cables optimize pedalboard space by allowing you to place pedals closer together, while accurately transferring all the subtle details of your playing.
Hosa’s Pro Guitar Patch Cables improve upon the previous patch cable version by incorporating a new pancake REAN connector that keeps the ruggedness of Hosa Pro and maximizes the limited…
Javier Reyes’ signature pickup set with Fishman reflects his desire for warmer passive tones, smooth musical top-end, and organic dynamics.
Company CEO Chris Martin addresses the crowd of media and invited C.F. Martin & Co. afficionados at Wednesday's private preview of the winter lineup of guitars and strings.
As part of that mission, Lee Oskar Harmonicas will demo its full line of innovative harmonicas at NAMM 2020 at booth #6310, showing musicians how they can quickly and easily use harmonicas…
Ovation Guitars has announce the opening of the all-new “Ovation Custom Shop.”
Velocity Pro Systems recently installed and designed a new audio system with a Martin Audio Wavefront Precision Mini (WPM) array in Manhattan’s Upper West Side campus of the Redeemer Church.
IK Multimedia is celebrating the 10th anniversary of its original iRig guitar interface that helped define the "mobile music-making" category and launched an entire family of products.
Zoom Corporation recognized Steve Gadd with the Zoom 2019 Creator of the Year Award on the eve of the opening of the 2020 Winter NAMM Show.
The John Lennon Educational Tour Bus will continue its mission to enhance and encourage music education for all by joining forces with the GRAMMY Music Education Coalition and visiting Los…
Lake Hills Church is an active congregation in Austin, Texas that hosts worship services using an Allen & Heath dLive C3500 Surface with CDM64 MixRack to mix FOH.
The owner of RAS Visuals & Lighting, Garrick was visiting LDI in 2018 when he came across the CHAUVET Professional Maverick Storm 1 Wash.
Guitar Center has announced its partnership with the 2020 Winter Music Conference (WMC) and Miami Music Week (MMW), as the official music instrument retailer of the world-renowned electronic music conference…
On January 14, The NAMM Foundation and NAMM member companies presented the Horace Mann Elementary School in Anaheim, California with a monetary donation and musical instruction as part of the…
A quarter century ago, two former high school and LSU School of Engineering classmates were inspired to found a new company called PreSonus®, where they would design innovative audio products…
Introducing Austrian Audio, the classic microphone manufacturer bringing 350 years of cumulative engineering experience to the industry.
The historic British Amplifier brand, Hiwatt, and official trademarks for Hiwatt across the world - have been reunited.
In many ways he’s the face of the MI industry – and, ever-smiling, Joe Lamond’s is a face nearly all of us see at each NAMM Show and many other…
Two of the most common and popular types of clarinets are the EH and BH clarinet. This is largely due to the fact that both are transposing instruments, meaning that,…
Formed in 2000 by Crystal Morris and her father Jerry, Gator Cases quickly emerged as designers and producers of some of the most sought-after cases and bags for instruments, percussion,…
With only 7.1 percent of participants in this month’s dealer survey – sent out to over 250 MI retailers – reporting that sales of clarinet ligatures are down and nearly…
Five years ago, we at MMR made a rather bold statement: We proclaimed that Brian Ball, son of Sterling Ball, had stepped into the “role he was born for” as…
When it comes to selling stuff locally, the retailer is worth keeping around, so can we please stop pretending that net 30 terms work?
S.W.I.M. is made up of Robin Walenta, the president of West Music (and the first chairwoman of NAMM); Crystal Morris, president & CEO of Gator Co.; and DeDe Heid, executive…
"If someone tells you trade shows are yesterday’s news, they are making a gross miscalculation,” wrote Henry DeVries in a May, 2019 Forbes article.
As we roll into the NAMM Show 2020, we see the landscape of music changing just as radically.
The X Stage at the D’Addario Booth is set to be filled with artist pairings and demos throughout the 2020 NAMM Show, from January 16 to 19 in Anaheim, California.
This year, Martin and The NAMM Show are teaming up with REVERB to take the first step toward eliminating single-use plastic at The 2020 NAMM Show in Anaheim, California.
Bringing this production sonically alive was the task of an L-Acoustics Kara system, designed and installed by Showtime Sound LLC of Frederick, Maryland.
K-array is excited to welcome Sam Spennacchio as National Sales Director at K-array USA.
Alpha Distribution is acquiring the Amptweaker™ pedal brand, which was founded by engineering icon James Brown and his wife Phyllis.
At Winter NAMM 2020, since all KMC’s major brands have their own booths, KMC will be putting sales reps directly in partner booths to better serve the dealers. Dealers will…
Today, January 10, RockBoard has shared the newest version of its website.
To ensure that students experience the best possible audio quality, the monitoring systems in the Bus’s two onboard studios have recently been upgraded to Genelec’s “The Ones” coaxial three-way point…
K.H.S. Group announces the appointment of Andy Wang to the position of CEO. Mr. Wang takes the reigns of the company from retiring CEO Karl Leong after a successful, tenured…
64 Audio has announced that it will have personnel on-hand to discuss the company’s featured and proprietary in-ear monitor technologies during the 2020 NAMM Show, held in Anaheim, January 16-19…
As part of its blueprint for building an agile, innovative new pro audio company, ASI Audio, Inc. has hired industry veteran Evan MacKenzie as Vice President, Marketing & Sales.
Blue Microphones, a market leader audio production products, announced that Hal Leonard will serve as principle distribution partner for Blue in Canada and Latin America.
