The New Year is like a second Christmas for us music equipment lovers, as January brings with it the annual NAMM show.

The world’s largest music products trade show will be heading to Anaheim, California from January 21^st to 24^th.

NAMM stands for the National Association of Music Merchants and attracts dealers and distributors as well as big name musicians from around the world to exhibit the very latest in music gear.

The show has been running since 1901, and nowadays pulls in attendances of around 100,000 people from 137 countries around the world.

2016 is set to be the biggest NAMM yet, with over 1,600 companies exhibiting their wares, representing over 5,100 brands, so we’re eager to see what exciting new stuff comes out of the show!

So what are we hoping to see? Well some stuff has already been teased, such as a new flagship synth from Yamaha called the ‘Montage’. 

They’ve released a teaser video which you can see below, but unfortunately it doesn’t give much away!

Also on the synthesizer front, Korg recently revealed their new Minilogue, so we’ll be hoping to see more of that, and we may see announcements from Roland and Behringer too.

IK Multimedia are rather puzzlingly promising to show us a “revolutionary mastering product”, but again the details are very scarce so we’ve no idea what to expect on that one!

We’ll also probably be seeing the exciting new CDJ-2000NXS2 DJ deck and DJM-900NXS2 mixer from Pioneer which we highlighted recently.

We’ll be keeping a keen eye on the show for any exciting new products that we might be likely to see coming over here soon, and will be sure to keep you updated with any hot new products that we’ll be looking to stock. 

Stay tuned to our news feed for any further news!