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The Latest Breaking News from NAMM 2025

These are the gear trends that will shape your guitar buying in 2025: we explored every inch of NAMM to discover what brands are plotting for the next 12 months – and how the guitar gear world at large is changing

NAMM 2025 was one for the history books, with an avalanche of surprise announcements as industry titans broke their own rules, the neck humbucker took a backseat and guitar stars started seeing other companies – here’s what we learned

“We promised him that we would keep his legacy alive”: What’s going on with Dumble Amps – and why was the company at NAMM 2025? We discovered the story behind the re-emergence – and future – of the guitar world’s most mythical amp brand

The show’s most surprising exhibitor put on a behind-closed-doors display of some hall-of-fame Dumbles – and gave Guitar World the lowdown on what’s to come

NAMM 2025: Behringer's BX1 synth might well be the biggest surprise of the show, but it's not the on-the-nose Yamaha clone you might have been expecting

NAMM 2025: Behringer's BX1 synth might well be the biggest surprise of the show, but it's not the on-the-nose Yamaha clone you might have been expecting

The biggest surprise is how much it adds to the original

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NAMM 2025: "In a few years there will be no piano that doesn't have a camera": Can ROLI’s AI-powered, hand-tracking Piano rewrite learning to play?

Live and direct from the NAMM show floor, we get the lowdown on ROLI’s latest gear on video

NAMM 2025 live! The biggest guitar news as it happened

All the red-hot gear news and artist goings-ons from the show floor at the world’s biggest guitar gear trade show

NAMM 2025 as it happened: rolling news from the world's biggest music-making gear show

All the hottest new guitars, synths, drums and other gear from Anaheim 2025

NAMM 2025: Offering both digital and analogue control, Flock Audio’s Switch takes takes audio routing to the next level

With DAW control and a customisable LED display, this latest switch gear is pulling out all the stops

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NAMM 2025: Make a pro-quality mix anywhere with Mackie’s new battery-powered ProFX10 GO

NAMM 2025: Make a pro-quality mix anywhere with Mackie’s new battery-powered ProFX10 GO

Building on its feature-packed ProFX10 mixers, Mackie's new GO spin-off doesn’t even need a power cord

“We’re going back, but we’re going back for one reason only”: Fender CEO Andy Mooney explains why the firm’s return to NAMM 2025 won’t be business as usual

“We’re going back, but we’re going back for one reason only”: Fender CEO Andy Mooney explains why the firm’s return to NAMM 2025 won’t be business as usual

Fender is one of the key brands returning to NAMM for 2025, but it’s taking a different approach this time

NAMM 2025: Reloop's Keypad Pro is a portable, wireless MIDI controller that'll play nice with Bitwig Studio

NAMM 2025: Reloop's Keypad Pro is a portable, wireless MIDI controller that'll play nice with Bitwig Studio

Keypad Pro packs a 25-key keyboard, 16 aftertouch-enabled drum pads and eight channel strips into a lightweight controller equipped with Bluetooth MIDI

NAMM 2025: rumors, predictions and breaking news from the world’s biggest guitar gear show

NAMM 2025: rumors, predictions and breaking news from the world’s biggest guitar gear show

With the likes of Fender, Gibson and Marshall returning to Anaheim at long last, this year’s event is set to be the biggest in five years – with secrets and surprises to match

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