Best New Pro Audio Gear of 2024: NAMM Edition

This week, I share my top picks for the best new pro audio and music gear for the studio from NAMM 2024. This list includes headphones, microphones, plugins, hardware and more.

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Top Picks Include:

Headphones

1:15 Sennheiser HD 490 Pro (…with Dear VR SE software)
4:25 HEDDphones 2
5:30 Avantone Planar Headphones
7:22 Austrian Audio Composer headphones
10:20 Audeze MM-100
11:30 Beyerdynamic 770 Pro X

Interfaces and controllers

12:21 Interfaces and controllers
12:34 Heritage Audio I73 Interfaces
14:27 SSL UC control surfaces now have complete plugin compatibility
17:34 Neumann interfaces include Atmos mixing configuration
18:25 Flock Audio digital patchbays

Plugins

19:15 Soothe Bloom Pro
21:39 Sensaphonics dB Check
28:31 Ableton Live 12
29:15 WaveLab 12
29:28 KIT Plugins BB Chamber
34:35 Melodics
45:39

Hardware

41:18 Soyuz Mic Preamp
42:58 Cranborne Harmonic EQ HE2
44:10 Warm Audio WA-2MPX and 1b
44:24 New Harrison 500 Series
44:50 New Fairchild mono compressor 

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