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The new PRS Archon’s lead channel was designed with five gain stages before the master volume, delivering full distortion, while the clean channel is built with ample headroom…
The all-new Orange Dual Dark Series is a range of high-end dual channel amps, with a new voicing for Channel A (Channel B is has the voicing of…
The G-SERIES power amplifiers have been designed to provide efficiency, dynamics and reliability at an affordable price for a variety of fixed and mobile audio applications. The G-SERIES…
Select Stage is a five-piece shell set available in Dark Forest Burst or Maple. Select Drive is a six-piece shell set available in Autumn Fade and Brown Galaxy…
The Stick Flip morphs from drumstick bag to drumstick holder with Sabian’s proprietary “Flip” design. During the gig, the Stick Flip sits next to the drummer putting spare…
Remo’s Gospel Church Tambourine is manufactured with a lightweight Acousticon® drum shell and is available with double and single row jingles. It has a Skyndeep® Natural fixed graphic…
The kt3 digital drum set features large 11" dual-zone white floor tom and snare drum pads, a larger 12" hi-hat cymbal, two 12" crash cymbals, and a 14"…
Gold and Silver Series drums come in a wide range of shell types and sizes, with new options available in 2014. Gold Series drums (MSRP: $615.99 to $1,535.99)…
The new Model TMC is a solid universal tambourine clamp that will grip any 8”, 10”, or 12” tambourine securely, yet freely enough to allow the frame and…
Latin Percussion (LP) is celebrating 50 years of making the finest percussion with the reintroduction of the first set of bongos produced by LP. A replica of the…
Weighing in at 13.8 pounds, this professional grade Pipe snare features a four-ply Birch shell with two-ply reinforcement rings. The aircraft aluminum edge ring offers durability under aggressive…
The Schertler JAM150 a hand-built, all-wood stained 150-watt bi-amp with an 8” woofer and 1” dome tweeter using Italian electrical components and drivers. The JAM150 features four channels.…
The new Celebrity Standard models from Ovation have a mid-depth Lyrachord cutaway body style and an improved quartersawn scalloped " x” bracing design. Available in Sunburst Gloss (CS24-1),…
The B.K. U-BASS is a 21” scale solid body electric four-string fretless bass strung with Kala’s proprietary polyurethane strings, designed with bassist Bakithi Kumalo. Other features include a…
Deering Banjo Company now offers custom banjo strings sets for all their banjos, including plectrum, tenor, six-string, Tenbrooks Series, and a Terry Baucom Signature Set for their broad…
The Beard Model 27™ is a faithful reproduction of the classic pre-war instrument, handcrafted and featuring Finland birch construction, parallelogram soundwell, vintage sunburst finish, and Beard Legend Cone™.beardguitars.comNAMM…
The new OD-1X and DS-1X pedals feature BOSS’s Multi-Dimensional Processing (MDP), designed for effects that go beyond traditional analog designs. Each model is equipped with exclusive chrome knobs…
Fluence pickups incorporate Fishman’s Fluence Core “coils” and true Multi-Voice electronics, which allow players to transform their individual pickups from Vintage to Hot, “line-in” Clean or Death Defying…
The Pilgrim offering is spearheaded with a range of tenor and bluegrass banjos as well as a ukulele banjo and a six-string guitar banjo. These are bolstereed by…
The Premier series offers an auditorium, concert, dreadnought, and jumbo body shape with both a solid East Indian rosewood and solid Honduran mahogany back and side option. It…
Fret-King’s new Exige, which will be revealed for the very first time at the NAMM Show 2014, features a double cutaway body, two double coil Fret-King pickups (with…
Built in Los Angeles, Calif., these Limited Edition guitars will feature precision sculpted bodies in AAAAA woods and hand-shaped satin necks. The Legator Ninja 400 features a five-piece…
Joe Lamond received the Midwest Clinic's Music Industry Award for his outstanding support of music education. Among his accomplishments on behalf of music education, Lamond was honored as…
The annual industry gathering in Anaheim has plenty to recommend it: groundbreaking, game-changing instruments get introduced (we hope); plenty of orders are placed, or at least considered for…
