Studio & Stage

PRS Guitars is bringing its Birds of a Feather inlay to a Core guitar for the first time in the Custom 24 “Birds of a Feather” Limited Edition, a 360-piece run that pairs the design with one of the company’s…

Native Instruments has released SuperStarSaw, a synthesizer built with A. G. Cook, the PC Music founder and 2025 BRIT Producer of the Year, around the stacked sawtooth technique that runs through his work with Charli xcx, Caroline Polachek, and Oklou.…

Gamechanger Audio has redesigned the PLUS Pedal, the Riga, Latvia company’s best-selling sustain effect, building it around an entirely new sound engine and a broader set of performance tools. The original became a favorite across genres for its ability to…

Blackstar has expanded its Doug Aldrich signature lineup with the new DA5 Ruby, a 5-watt all-tube combo designed to deliver the character of Aldrich’s 100-watt DA100 Ruby in a format built for home practice, recording, and smaller studios. Rather than…

Marshall has unveiled the 1959BJA Billie Joe Armstrong Artist Signature, its first artist-signature amplifier in 14 years. Developed with the Green Day guitarist, the handwired 100-watt head is built on Marshall’s legendary 1959HW platform while incorporating a custom “Dookie Mod”…

Some pedals are designed to refine your sound. Others encourage you to rethink it entirely. With the Lüm Texture Engine, Walrus Audio has created a pedal that invites experimentation, transforming familiar guitar tones into evolving textures through a blend of…

Some effects pedals become favorites because of endless controls and complex circuitry. Others earn their reputation by doing one thing exceptionally well. EarthQuaker Devices’ Bellows Fuzz Driver falls into the latter category, and this year’s Legacy Reissue brings the company’s…

Finding useful recording tools doesn’t always have to come with a price tag. For a limited time, Canvas Audio, an independent developer focused on creating practical, musician-friendly audio tools, is offering its Double Dare vocal doubler plugin as a free…

Multi-effects processors have become incredibly powerful over the past few years, but they can also be overwhelming. Rather than adding even more choices, Darkglass is taking a different approach with its new Anagram Guitar Essentials platform by focusing on a…

Pro Tools 2023.3 is the latest version of Avid’s popular audio production software that introduces several new features and improvements. One of the most notable enhancements in this release is the support for Apple Silicon. This means that Pro Tools…