Winter NAMM 2026 predictions

[deathbyguitar]

I don't see it anywhere that they'll be at NAMM?

They've never gone to NAMM but rest assured there'll be million Fractal units on the floor!

 

[LP59]

But this year has been very different than the previous 3 years. Both entry into the US and exporting into the US have become significantly more difficult and expensive for both non-US attendees and non-US exhibitors. I would expect those numbers to all be down substantially.

You can look at the exhibitor map and see the floor is fuller than 2022 or 2023. It's down from 2020 no doubt, but I'm just disagreeing with your statement that this year will be the slowest it's been in 30 years.

 

[Richard_G]

I actually believe we’ll see at (or announced around the same time as) NAMM several things I’d be interested in checking out:

• Next-generation TONEX hardware from IK.
• New releases from Boutique Amps Distribution (BAD) / Synergy Amps (at least a new Synergy module and a new—possibly higher-gain—tube preamp pedal, based on the success of the Tone King Imperial Preamp pedal).
• Various hardware NAM players (including one from Mwave).
• Bonus bullet point, due to Cliff’s post in this thread: an announcement of something exciting from Fractal besides the forthcoming PSU units. It may be next-generation gear, but I don’t really think so. Perhaps a delay + reverb pedal in a smaller form factor than the VP4/AM4.

 

[BrownNote71]

IIRC Brian Wampler said to expect a new BAD pedal/follow-up to the Tone King Imperial pedal at NAMM.

 

[Jim Soloway]

You can look at the exhibitor map and see the floor is fuller than 2022 or 2023. It's down from 2020 no doubt, but I'm just disagreeing with your statement that this year will be the slowest it's been in 30 years.

It's not a statement. It's a prediction. It's entirely possible that I will be wrong. I just wonder how many companies will decide not to go when they redo their numbers post NO POLITICS and they start to actually confront all of the added expense and difficulty of getting there. Will all those smaller companies from China still have a both downstairs? I was willing to sell a guitar from Canada to a willing buyer in the US until I actually started to navigate all the possible difficulties and expenses. There was so much uncertainty that I ultimately just said screw up. I'll just have to find a buyer here.

 

[FracKing]

• People will be surprised to learn that the new Fractal Power Supply will be running on free energy
• IF this has anything to do with helping feedback, I wish Cliff completed his former obsession...
  Cliff: "The trick is getting that acoustic interaction at low volumes which requires getting enough acoustic flux into the guitar. Years ago I was obsessed with this and had an idea for a "guitar acoustic reinforcer" which was a transducer that you clamped onto your guitar. You then took the output of your modeler and fed it to the transducer which would vibrate the guitar body. You could probably do it with a speaker motor and a power amp. I was working on using piezoelectrics to do it but got bogged down in other things and never got beyond the concept stage."
  
  

  Recording

  So in response to the OP. If you shoot an IR of your cab and place your cab or monitors close so you can keep the volume down then you can get a nearly identical recording. The trick is getting that acoustic interaction at low volumes which requires getting enough acoustic flux into the...

  forum.fractalaudio.com

 

[GTR37]

IIRC Brian Wampler said to expect a new BAD pedal/follow-up to the Tone King Imperial pedal at NAMM.

Possibly a hinted at Soldano SLO or Astro IR/X thing

 

[LP59]

It's not a statement. It's a prediction. It's entirely possible that I will be wrong. I just wonder how many companies will decide not to go when they redo their numbers post NO POLITICS and they start to actually confront all of the added expense and difficulty of getting there. Will all those smaller companies from China still have a both downstairs? I was willing to sell a guitar from Canada to a willing buyer in the US until I actually started to navigate all the possible difficulties and expenses. There was so much uncertainty that I ultimately just said screw up. I'll just have to find a buyer here.

I'm sure you're right about that having an effect on both exhibitors and attendees, but it isn't anywhere near as bad as 2022 or even 2023. You can see the exhibitor list to see for yourself.

 

[ispunk]

My wife works at a hospital and I hear stories about the ER doc's collecting X-rays of crazy shit that comes in, so I gotta ask... how many times have you ended up in the ER to get a foreign object removed?

A friend of mine works as an ER nurse. I hear some crazy stories. Last year a guy came in with a toilet brush stuck up his butt ( and it was the brush end that was stuck up there). Also a guy had a leg of a walker stuck up the ol' poop shoot.

 

[BROCKSTAR]

A friend of mine works as an ER nurse. I hear some crazy stories. Last year a guy came in with a toilet brush stuck up his butt ( and it was the brush end that was stuck up there). Also a guy had a leg of a walker stuck up the ol' poop shoot.

People gotta get their kinks on lol

 

[FuzzyAce]

A friend of mine works as an ER nurse. I hear some crazy stories. Last year a guy came in with a toilet brush stuck up his butt ( and it was the brush end that was stuck up there). Also a guy had a leg of a walker stuck up the ol' poop shoot.

 

[Richard_G]

Perhaps Neural will annnounce something to be released soon…

 

[jay mitchell]

My wife works at a hospital and I hear stories about the ER doc's collecting X-rays of crazy shit that comes in,

"Uh, sir, would you like me to remove the vibrator, or should I just charge the batteries?"

 

[holoholo]

This place is obsessed with sticking things up asses.

 

[Whizzinby]

IIRC Brian Wampler said to expect a new BAD pedal/follow-up to the Tone King Imperial pedal at NAMM.

They could print money with a purple SLO-IRX.

 

[Dom Mcsweeney]

The main question is, will there be a Miku Stomp v2 at namm this year?

 

[FuzzyAce]

Don't know about Line 6 but be prepared for a surprise...

My goodness, I hope it's a FM48 Refrigerator.

 

[Digital Igloo]

It's not a statement. It's a prediction. It's entirely possible that I will be wrong. I just wonder how many companies will decide not to go when they redo their numbers post NO POLITICS and they start to actually confront all of the added expense and difficulty of getting there. Will all those smaller companies from China still have a both downstairs? I was willing to sell a guitar from Canada to a willing buyer in the US until I actually started to navigate all the possible difficulties and expenses. There was so much uncertainty that I ultimately just said screw up. I'll just have to find a buyer here.

This is wholly anecdotal, but I spoke with at least a half dozen people at Mannheim Guitar Summit (all non-Americans) who were at last NAMM but won't be at this one because of apprehension regarding [NO POLITICS].

 

[bucephalus]

This race is obsessed with sticking things up asses.

FTFY

 

[Aleksi]

That's an odd place to announce the long-awaited Boss switch toppers, but I'm sure we'll see them on a few pedals around here!

Less interesting: something about powerful, ultra-compact guitar and bass processors?