Top 10 new arrivals of August 2026 at Muziker

August brought a lot of new gear into our catalogue across every category, from guitars through studio software to DJ equipment. We picked ten that are worth your attention and we are counting down from ten to one.

Sonoris is a Dutch software house specialising in mastering and in preparing albums for manufacturing. We never carried the brand before and in August we switched on eight of its titles at once.

The core of the range is finalisation. DDP Creator Pro builds a DDP image, the format an album is actually sent to the pressing plant in, complete with gaps between tracks and ISRC codes. The cheaper DDP Creator Standard does the same without the advanced features, and DDP Player plays the finished image back so you hear exactly what the plant will get before you send it.

For the sound itself you get Mastering Equalizer and Mastering Compressor, plus Multiband Compressor for taming just the lows or just the highs. Parallel Equalizer adds frequencies in parallel with the original signal, so the track gets louder without losing its breath. Dither closes the series off for the very last step before export.

You will find the full range in mastering and finalisation and in studio software.

Cyma Forma is a Paris brand whose instruments are designed and hand-assembled by Vincent and Victor. They build them from plexiglass and powder-coated steel, and the ALT Analog Soundscape Synth is the first model of theirs you will find with us.

ALT is made for building pads, drones and textures that evolve on their own over time. The engine has five voices and runs them through a pair of stereo filters wired in series. Those filters can also self-oscillate, meaning they produce a tone by themselves even with nothing fed into them.

The most interesting part is the modulation, in other words how the sound changes by itself. Instead of the patch cables you know from modular systems, ALT has a matrix of two-millimetre banana pins. Push a pin into a hole and the connection is made, with no cables and no digging through menus.

You can modulate from four sources. Two of them are LFOs, slow waves that sweep your volume or filter, the third is a random generator and the fourth tracks the level of the signal and can listen to the built-in microphone. The instrument therefore responds to the sound in the room. We also stock the smaller RND Synth from the same brand, and there is more in analogue synthesizers and the whole synthesizer category.

Beyerdynamic is a German manufacturer whose DT line is among the most widely used studio headphones in the world. In August nine new models arrived with us at once, the entire broadcast range, all made in Germany.

For producers the key one is the DT 770 PRO X 48 Ohm. It is built on the new STELLAR.45 driver, it keeps the sound signature of the classic DT 770, and it finally has a detachable cable with a locking connector in the left cup, a feature professionals asked for over decades. The 48 ohm impedance is low, so they drive cleanly straight from a laptop.

The rest of the line targets live broadcast, podcasting and intercom, in other words situations where you need to listen and speak at the same time. The DT 797 PV takes the DT 770 PRO acoustics and adds a condenser microphone, which is unusual in this class because the competition fits tougher but less detailed dynamic capsules. The DT 297 PV MK II does the same for radio and adds shielding against interference from mobile phones.

The DT 290 MK II and DT 280 MK II headsets carry the microphone on a flexible gooseneck you can swing to either side of your head. And the DT 109, DT 108 and DT 252 have served in control rooms for decades precisely because every single part can be replaced. The whole category sits under studio headphones.

Universal Audio is a brand producers know through its Apollo audio interfaces and UAD plugins. Until now those plugins also required an Apollo, because the processing ran on a chip inside it. UAD Native Pro changes that: the whole bundle runs directly on your computer in VST3, AU and AAX, with no extra hardware needed.

Inside you get SSL and API channel strips, Fairchild and Empirical Labs compressors, Pultec EQ and Lexicon reverbs. These are emulations of the studio gear records have been made on for the last sixty years, so you have been listening to most of them for years without necessarily knowing it.

The licence is perpetual, so you pay once and the software stays yours for good, with no monthly subscription. If the full version feels like too much, Universal Audio also offers the smaller Classics, Producer and Studio bundles. Look for more ideas among software plug-in FX processors.

Schecter is an American brand most players associate with metal and heavier styles. Three new models arrived from it in August and each one aims at a different player.

The E-1 Custom in Vintage Sunburst is the best appointed of the three. It has a mahogany body with a quilted maple top and a set neck that is carved away where it joins the body, so you reach the top frets comfortably. The pickups are Schecter USA and the tone pot carries a coil split, meaning that pulling the knob turns the humbucker into a softer single-coil sound. The 24.75" scale is on the shorter side, which makes bending easier.

The Damien-7 in Satin Black is a seven-string built for low tunings. Its extended 26.5" scale keeps even the thickest string under tension so it does not rattle against the frets when you tune down. The strings run through the body, which lengthens sustain. You will find it among the 7-string guitars.

The Demon-6 in Aged Black Satin is the most affordable of the three and the only one built on active electronics, meaning pickups with their own preamp. They sound more pushed and hiss less, but they need a 9V battery to run. You will find all three plus the competition in hard & heavy and super ST models.

Yamaha has extended its PSR-SX arranger line with a new entry-level model. The PSR-SX620 is a keyboard that plays a whole band under your hands: you take a chord with your left hand and the instrument adds drums, bass and backing parts to it.

It has 61 keys, 1002 voices and 450 styles, meaning 450 different backing bands from waltz to funk. The panel has been completely redesigned compared with its predecessor and swaps rows of buttons for a joystick, so you are not hunting for the right button mid-performance.

Chord Looper is new as well, letting you loop a chord progression and free up both hands for a solo. Add Bluetooth streaming from your phone, a built-in 16-track recorder for catching an idea quickly and a weight of 8.1 kg, so you carry it to rehearsal one-handed. Find alternatives among professional keyboards and in the keyboards category.

Yamaha has replaced its best-selling analogue mixers with a new generation. The MGP32X A has 32 input channels, 8 outputs and 4 subgroups, enough even for a larger band with a horn section, while the smaller MGP24X A offers 24 channels.

The headline addition is the compressor on the main output, which automatically pulls down the loudest moments and lifts the quieter ones, so the mix holds together even without an engineer riding the faders. It works in both classic and multiband mode, and no other mixer in this price class has it.

The D-PRE preamps handle a demanding vocal without going harsh, and over USB you record the whole show straight to your computer. Compare them with other analogue mixers, mixers up to 32 channels or mixers with USB.

Fender has released the limited Player Fusion line, taking its two most recognisable silhouettes and rebuilding them for high-gain playing.

The Player Fusion Telecaster HH FR in Aura Metallic is the bolder of the pair. Instead of the classic single-coils it carries two humbuckers, and instead of a fixed bridge a Floyd Rose Special tremolo with a locking nut that clamps the strings at the headstock end and holds tuning through dive bombs. The ebony fingerboard is deliberately left without inlays, so there are no position dots.

The Player Fusion Stratocaster HSS in Olympic Pearl is the more versatile one. The bridge humbucker pushes the drive, two Noiseless single-coils keep the neck and middle positions clean and free of the hum old Stratocasters picked up under distortion, and the coil split on the tone pot opens glassy single-coil sounds even out of that humbucker. One guitar covers funk and metal.

Both include locking tuners, black hardware and a deluxe gig bag. Have a look at the T models, ST models, all electric guitars and guitar pickups.

DGZ Dime Guitarz is a brand built around the legacy of Dimebag Darrell of Pantera. We never carried it before and in August we switched on its Culprit model in six finishes at once.

Culprit is the model Dimebag designed in 1998, now built to his original specification from the US Custom Shop. It carries his signature Dimebucker at the bridge and a Seymour Duncan '59 at the neck, the combination behind the attack and the screaming harmonics you know from his records.

What is new compared with the original is the DimeBooster. Tap the tone pot and the pickups get up to 15 dB of extra gain, which in practice is the difference between rhythm and lead without stepping on a pedal. It needs no 9V battery either, as it charges over USB-C.

You choose from six versions: Dime Slime, Dimebolt, Blackjack, Cherry Bomb, Blacktooth and Tobacco Sunburst. The rest of this scene lives in hard & heavy.

Denon is a brand DJs know through the PRIME line, systems that play without a computer attached. The PRIME 4 G2 is its second generation and also the most expensive DJ arrival of the month.

The whole thing rests on the word standalone. You do not need a laptop and you do not need Serato or Rekordbox running in the background, because the music and the software both live inside the unit. Plug in a USB stick or an SD card, or connect to Wi-Fi, and play across four decks from a single piece of hardware.

For mobile DJs that means the entire setup in one case and fewer things to patch together on arrival. For club DJs it is a backup that will not go down because of an operating system, since there is not one. Have a look at the other DJ consoles and software, DJ mixers and all DJ equipment.