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Fender slims down acoustic design for "stage-ready" Highway Series
October 10, 2023Fender has pulled back the stage curtain on the Highway Series acoustic guitars in dreadnought or parlor guises, each slimmed down for a more comfortable playing experience and "finely tuned for performance on and off the stage." -
Austrian Audio puts out a studio-grade microphone for your pocket
October 09, 2023Vienna's Austrian Audio has announced a pocket recording system designed to capture "what you want, where you want, and when you want." The MiCreator Studio wraps a tilting condenser microphone and a USB audio interface into one rugged package. -
Review: Fender Tone Master Pro, the most powerful guitar processor ever
October 03, 2023Fender says its new eight-core multi-effects and amp modeling floor unit is the best-sounding, most powerful and easiest-to-use digital floor pedal ever built. It's got a legit claim to two of those three titles – but is it undergunned in 2023? -
Lava updates oddly-shaped carbon smart guitar, adds new options
September 29, 2023We first got our hands on Lava's oddball carbon-fiber Me 2 smart guitar back in 2021, which was followed by a new model later that year. Now the company has announced the fourth generation, adding a spruce option plus a more affordable Play flavor. -
Loog kickstarts music learning with wood-enclosed portable Piano
September 28, 2023The latest project from music education company Loog Guitars isn't a three-stringed Gibson classic to go with its pint-sized Fender Strat or Tele electrics, but a 37-key portable piano for kids of all ages. -
Boss invites guitar players to jam wirelessly with the Katana Air EX
September 21, 2023Boss has added a new desktop model to its impressive Katana range of app-enhanced modeling amplifiers for electric guitar and bass. The 35-W Air EX allows for wireless connection between instrument and combo amp, and can also run on batteries. -
Concert-level Bluetooth speaker ready to rock your next dance party
September 20, 2023Those crazy soundsmiths over at Soundboks in Denmark have launched the fourth generation of the company's stupid loud Bluetooth speaker, which promises improved sonics and a longer battery life at full whack. -
Fender Vintera II 70s Strat review: Big vintage tone, accessible price
September 20, 2023The Made-in-Mexico Vintera line is only four years old, but Fender has overhauled it anyway. We've had the quirky 70s Strat for a week, and at less than half the cost of an American Vintage II, it plays beautifully and presses all the retro buttons. -
Boss looks to silence background noise with NS-1X for electric guitar
September 15, 2023For more than 35 years the NS-2 stomp has been an effective set-and-forget solution to background noise in an electric guitarist's signal chain. Now it's being joined by a "highly tunable" next-gen noise suppressor and gate called the NS-1X. -
Presonus overhauls its hugely popular Eris studio monitor range
September 14, 2023Presonus has overhauled some of the world's best-selling studio monitors. The new Eris speakers deliver reference-grade audio at surprisingly affordable prices, with more low end, wider sweet spots for mixing, and the nifty inclusion of Bluetooth. -
Duolingo hopes to hit the right note with gamified music lessons
September 11, 2023For more than 10 years, Duolingo has been helping folks to learn a new language with ad-supported mini lessons designed to be fun and engaging. Now the company is taking its gamified model to music education. -
Review: Presonus Studio One+ is a colossal Swiss army knife for audio
September 10, 2023Fender is pushing hard to expand and refine its flagship DAW software package, a recording-studio-in-a-box packed with everything you need to write, record, mix, master, perform, livestream and present music, podcasts and videos. It's a monster. -
Palm-sized Woovebox puts a powerful groove machine in your pocket
September 05, 2023The Woovebox micro music workstation rocks a stripped-back design reminiscent of Teenage Engineering's Pocket Operators, but has more to offer the mobile groove creator – packing in a synthesizer, sequencer, sampler and beat maker. -
Stylophone Beat puts a portable groove machine in your pocket
August 16, 2023Back in the late 1960s, creating music anywhere was made much easier with a now iconic toy-like pocket synth called the Stylophone. Now Dubreq is aiming to do the same for beat makers with a portable drum machine. -
In the air tonight: Boss acoustic guitar amp showcases Air Feel tech
August 04, 2023Boss has added an interesting new amplifier to its acoustic range. The AC-22LX battery-powered compact amplifier for acoustic instruments rocks Air Feel processing for faithful natural tones at performance volumes.
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