Winter NAMM 2026 predictions

[deathbyguitar]

Yamaha is announcing new edrum stuff tomorrow and I'm loosing my shit just waiting for it. I work in IT for a hospital so maybe I can get someone to put me under a medically induced coma for the next 24 hours.

I'm really hoping there are some genuine innovations in the e-drum market coming down the pike. EZD and Superior sound great but the modules are almost there, IMO. Nothing is gonna deter me from my dream of all-digital extreme brutality.

I'll see myself out...

 

[OrganicZed]

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This looks pretty cool. It will probably cost $3-4k though.

 

[saarangnarayan]

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For a second I thought this was an AI-generated image of an Axe FX IV

 

[ispunk]

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Oh noes. It's a rack. It will never sell.

 

[Orvillain]

Yamaha is announcing new edrum stuff tomorrow and I'm loosing my shit just waiting for it. I work in IT for a hospital so maybe I can get someone to put me under a medically induced coma for the next 24 hours.

I'm really hoping there are some genuine innovations in the e-drum market coming down the pike. EZD and Superior sound great but the modules are almost there, IMO. Nothing is gonna deter me from my dream of all-digital extreme brutality.

I'll see myself out...

Did you ever try the Alesis Strata Prime or Core, out of interest?

It's nowt to do with me anymore, so I don't really care, but it's pretty damn capable. A whole BFD engine in the box, with all of the doohickery you could really ask for.

 

[deathbyguitar]

Did you ever try the Alesis Strata Prime or Core, out of interest?

It's nowt to do with me anymore, so I don't really care, but it's pretty damn capable. A whole BFD engine in the box, with all of the doohickery you could really ask for.

The Alesis stuff seems to have a lot more variety than Yamaha does, that's for sure. However Alesis reliability leaves much to be desired. But because I'm extremely picky with drum sounds, I'm probably just gonna go ahead and purchase an acoustic kit to make my own samples.

 

[Chocol8]

Oh noes. It's a rack. It will never sell.

Unless it has a touch screen and supports NAM.

 

[bucephalus]

Unless it has a touch screen and supports NAM.

And costs 299

 

[Ed DeGenaro]

It’s just weird to me that the only things I’m interested in come from BAD.

 

[Blix]

I didn't have an Ed Sheeran PRS on my bingo card:

 

[bucephalus]

I didn't have an Ed Sheeran PRS on my bingo card:

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Holy hell, that's horrible

 

[Lysander]

I didn't have an Ed Sheeran PRS on my bingo card

Fuck. I kinda dig it..

 

[mikah912]

Fuck. I kinda dig it..

I would dig it.....a deep grave.

Somehow worse inlays than an "extreme" Schecter, a paint job that's a nightmare hybrid of James Tyler and Vernon Reid's oddball Reverends AND F-holes?

Egads.......

 

[AlbertA]

I didn't have an Ed Sheeran PRS on my bingo card:

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Yeah I saw this in the knowyourgear channel a few days ago, in a video where Ed was playing with Mayer.

And... yeah not digging it.

 

[FracKing]

I would dig it.....a deep grave.

It already looks like someone looking to the sky through the leaves on his grave...

 

[Progressive_disclosure]

Cort launched headless Strandberg knockoffs:

Cort Guitars

Cort Guitars is the largest producer of guitars in the world and we understand the needs of todays players.

www.cortguitars.com

 

[sashimi]

I didn't have an Ed Sheeran PRS on my bingo card:

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Don’t like Sheeran, don’t like PRS, and don’t like this guitar, but somehow this is still less offensive to me than the brightly colored bowling ball finishes on a lot of PRS’s

 

[ian_dissonance]

Cort launched headless Strandberg knockoffs:

Cort Guitars

Cort Guitars is the largest producer of guitars in the world and we understand the needs of todays players.

www.cortguitars.com

Sick.

 

[Boudoir Guitar]

You guys thought that QC switches were close. But maybe this is more of a desktop thing

Nah, this is aight. Two rows of five switches - one for each toe.

 

[ragingplatypi]

I didn't have an Ed Sheeran PRS on my bingo card:

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Yeah- except for the daycare-craft-splatter finish it’s actually a guitar I’ve wanted for a while - hollowbody baritone with piezo pickup.

I think it’s me, Ed Sheeran and probably two other people on this planet who want those specs.

But I can’t get over that finish. It sucks.