Posted on: Jan 22, 2016
As any self–respecting music tech geek will know, this week sees the world’s biggest music equipment trade show take place in Anaheim, California.
The 2016 NAMM Winer Show kicked off yesterday (Thursday) and will be running until Sunday, and we’ve already seen some pretty exciting stuff announced, and we’re glad to say that we will be bringing much of it to you!
Here’s a selection of some of the exciting new stuff we’ll we stocking soon!
Yamaha have revived their Recording Custom range of drums which have been designed over the last three years by renowned session drummer Steve Gadd.
The new series will come with a number of new features, such as a range of metal shells for the snare drums, 100% birch shells and 30-degree bearing edges.
On the electric side of the drumming spectrum, we’ll also be stocking the new Alesis Strike Zone kits.
The company claim that the kits will play just like an acoustic, blending the best of both worlds.
The kits will contain 200 kits as well as over 1,000 instruments and on-board sampling capability.
Fender have come out with a new range of guitar amps, consisting of nine different models.
The long rumoured range builds on the old Bassman design, and encourages guitarists to “explore the dark side” and experience “Fender DNA with a twist”.
The amps range from seven-watts to 45-watts and we look forward to giving them a test drive!
We’ll also be stocking the new range of amps from Ashdown, which builds upon the original Rootmaster series.
The preamp now includes a passive and active input jack socket, for use with high and low input instruments.
And the new RM0500 EVO Head now comes with a 500W power sectioned designed to maintain a deep low end, defined mids and transient highs.
They’re more known for their guitars, but Fender have announced they’re entering the headphone market, acquiring the high-end headphone company Aurisonics who aim their products at professional musicians and audiophiles.
As such they’re at the more expensive end of the market, ranging from $100-$500.
Fender scanned thousands of ears to make sure that the headphones feel like a custom fit for the majority of listeners!
Among Radial’s announcements was a new DI box, described as “the world’s first Dante-enabled DI box.”
The DiNET DAN-RX includes a 24bit/96kHz digital to analogue endpoint that allows the user to output audio from a Dante network to stereo systems.
It also enables instruments or line level sources to be connected directly to networked audio systems using the Dante protocol.
Allen & Heath have extended their ZED series of mixers with the new ZED Power 1000.
The new 2x500w mixer comes with on-board FX, a nine band graphic EQ and USB recording playback.
Best of all the new mixer only weighs in at 103kg, and comes with a robust carry handle which will make it easy to transport and set up no matter what the gig or venue.
All of these great products are just from the first day of the event so we’ll be sure to keep you posted on our news feed, Twitter and Facebook if we see anything else that we’re likely to be getting in stock!
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