NAMM 2024: Pioneer DJ's parent company launches new product brand, AlphaTheta By Ben Rogerson last updated 25 January 24 UPDATE: AlphaTheta says that Pioneer DJ products will continue "for the foreseeable future"
NAMM 2024: "It's inspired by denim jeans" - AlphaTheta Corporation announces the OMNIS-DUO portable DJ setup By Andy Jones published 25 January 24 The Pioneer DJ parent company celebrates its new brand by throwing a party, and OMNIS-DUO is playing the tunes
NAMM 2024: LR Baggs launches lightweight sticker-mounted HiFi Duet acoustic guitar pickup and mic system, promising “a new era in acoustic guitar amplification” By Jonathan Horsley published 24 January 24 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 By Rob Laing published 24 January 24 "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 By Andy Jones published 24 January 24 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 By Jonathan Horsley published 24 January 24 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 By Jonathan Horsley published 24 January 24 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 By Rob Laing published 23 January 24 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 By Jonathan Horsley published 23 January 24 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: Blackstar refreshes its top-selling digital practice amp series with the feature-packed ID:CORE V4 now equipped with single-watt bedroom setting By Jonathan Horsley published 23 January 24 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