As ever, January was all about NAMM 2010. As is always the case, there were plenty of exciting new products unveiled at this year’s NAMM show, but a few highlights in particular spring to mind.

TC-Electronic’s PolyTune achieved the unlikely task of getting us all excited about a guitar tuner, with its revolutionary ability to tune all of your guitar strings at once - a skill that later in the year was put into an excellent iOS app.

We also got a little (prematurely) worked up about Teenage Engineering’s mini-synth/controller the OP-1. Despite being one of the coolest things we saw at last year’s show, here we are a year later still waiting for this excellent little box of tricks to be released. We also got our first glimpse of Ableton/Serato link up The Bridge and saw The Batmobile (above).

To look back at everything from NAMM 2010 check out our full coverage, meanwhile, hold tight from NAMM 2011, as we’ll be back there in less than two weeks.