Winter NAMM 2026 predictions

[ragingplatypi]

Nahhhh I don’t think so.. who knows it may just be a cosmetic update kind of like the silver line was to Blackstar with the ID 260 member that was pretty much just cosmetic. Everything seemed to stay the same even the chips inside and stuff.
So I don’t know maybe they did revamp the whole tones and stuff. I don’t know.

I’d put money it just being cosmetic.

 

[unix-guy]

• 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

That's what the Gain Enhancer in the Amp block Output Compressor is trying to emulate...

 

[Dom Mcsweeney]

Just spotted Yamaha's new audio interfaces, they look really interesting.
Is there any info on the approximate RTL for guitarists etc? @Digital Igloo?
Also, what's up with the secondary USB sub input being 16 bit? and could it be used with a modeller or other usb sources?

 

[EOengineer]

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Honestly don’t hate this. If they migrated back to the power amp design they used on the OG blue series, those amps actually sounded and felt fantastic. IMO better than anything else in that category at that time.

A revisited front end paired with the old design could be worthwhile if it’s not a billion dollars. Fender pushing the price tag on this category of amp seems to have caught other manufacturers attention.

I’d love to see something like this from Fractal or L6.

 

[ragingplatypi]

Honestly don’t hate this. If they migrated back to the power amp design they used on the OG blue series, those amps actually sounded and felt fantastic. IMO better than anything else in that category at that time.

A revisited front end paired with the old design could be worthwhile if it’s not a billion dollars. Fender pushing the price tag on this category of amp seems to have caught other manufacturers attention.

I’d love to see something like this from Fractal or L6.

Vox also had something I think was called the Valve Reactor series, which was basically their version of Fender Tonemaster amps about 15 years before Fender actually did it. They weren’t lightweight though. I had a chance to A/B the AC15 version with a real AC15- I even cranked them up and pissed off everyone in the store. The difference was so minimal I was surprised Vox even released it because I thought they’d pilfer their own sales of the tube amp. Shows how little I understood the court of public opinion back then.

 

[crispsandwich]

Vox also had something I think was called the Valve Reactor series, which was basically their version of Fender Tonemaster amps about 15 years before Fender actually did it. They weren’t lightweight though. I had a chance to A/B the AC15 version with a real AC15- I even cranked them up and pissed off everyone in the store. The difference was so minimal I was surprised Vox even released it because I thought they’d pilfer their own sales of the tube amp. Shows how little I understood the court of public opinion back then.

My experience with the VR amps was similar. They were really onto something with the Valve Reactor stuff. Then they made the modelling amps sound worse and shit-canned some of the best aspects of the original line.

Hope this Valvetronix model makes up for it.

 

[Tanax]

RedSeven is launching a lunch box version of their Duality amp.
They also have something rack mounted coming as well.

 

[GTR37]

RedSeven is launching a lunch box version of their Duality amp.
They also have something rack mounted coming as well.

Ya I saw that I figured by the 2 rows of controls and the buttons that it was likely a duality 25 or 30
No the question is did they go el84 or load it with bigger glass like 34/ 6l6

 

[timbuck3]

Honestly don’t hate this. If they migrated back to the power amp design they used on the OG blue series, those amps actually sounded and felt fantastic. IMO better than anything else in that category at that time.

A revisited front end paired with the old design could be worthwhile if it’s not a billion dollars. Fender pushing the price tag on this category of amp seems to have caught other manufacturers attention.

I’d love to see something like this from Fractal or L6.

Yes I have 3 ad60 vtx amps.. 2 ad120 vtx amps and 2 vtx300 stacks and a ad120 vth head on a 4-12 stereo vtx cabinet so I hear ya.

 

[GTR37]

Should be a decent show for the modelling folks

New NDSP teaser definitely shows hardware w screen

Line 6 w 1.3 new amps and proxy

Fractal new product

Two notes still hoping for Gemome hardware

 

[SillyOctpuss]

Two notes still hoping for Gemome hardware

I still don't know what genome actually is. I got a free license for it from Two notes and haven't been interested enough to actually read up on it. The initial press releases and emails from Two Notes were as clear as mud.

 

[timbuck3]

I still don't know what genome actually is. I got a free license for it from Two notes and haven't been interested enough to actually read up on it. The initial press releases and emails from Two Notes were as clear as mud.

 

[Stone]

Should be a decent show for the modelling folks

New NDSP teaser definitely shows hardware w screen

Line 6 w 1.3 new amps and proxy

Fractal new product

Two notes still hoping for Gemome hardware

What new Fractal product???

 

[timbuck3]

My experience with the VR amps was similar. They were really onto something with the Valve Reactor stuff. Then they made the modelling amps sound worse and shit-canned some of the best aspects of the original line.

Hope this Valvetronix model makes up for it.

Then Thomas blug took the be tech and used a mini tube in the circuit in his amp1 stuff.. same concept… poor Vox.. another missed opportunity

 

[Ed DeGenaro]

NAMM is insanely expensive. A couple decades ago, one company paid upwards of $6M (or was it $8M?) for everything, but that was back when the vast majority of their POs were signed at the show by visiting dealers. Now everything's done online.

When was that? In early 2000 our name budget was 30k and that was super low rent.

 

[GuitarBilly74]

I predict the modelers on NAMM 2026 will sound more real than the ones on NAMM 2025, but not as real as the ones on NAMM 2027.

 

[CBHScott]

My experience with the VR amps was similar. They were really onto something with the Valve Reactor stuff. Then they made the modelling amps sound worse and shit-canned some of the best aspects of the original line.

Hope this Valvetronix model makes up for it.

Not likely - looks like they pulled a Blackstar and basically made nothing but cosmetic changes to bump up the price. Same specs as the previous line.

 

[GTR37]

What new Fractal product???

Don’t know yet , it’s a surprise
All we know is not next generation AX4

 

[timbuck3]

Not likely - looks like they pulled a Blackstar and basically made nothing but cosmetic changes to bump up the price. Same specs as the previous line.

Agree shame on Vox… what a waste of effort

 

[2dor]

More on the Friedman poweramp that's lined up for NAMM 2026:

Synergy modular thread

I noticed on the SLO II, there was no bright cap on the Crunch channel like there is on the Overdrive channel. Why they opted to do that, I don’t know So I run both channels on the Overdrive setting. I run the gain on the Crunch channel, lower than the Overdrive channel. This way, I have a...

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