Gear of the Year

Awards

Gear Of The Year 2020: The best DAWs, hardware instruments, monitors and accessories

We asked you to vote in 13 categories, and our experts have since deliberated on the results. Here are the winners for our Gear of the Year roundup of the ’20s.

31st December 2020

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Gear Of The Year 2017 Survey

The time has come to celebrate the remarkable achievements in music-technology. We want to know what came top of your list in 2017, and...

7th November 2017

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Gear of the Year 2016 – Best DAW of 2016

2016 was a less crazy year for DAW upgrades than 2015, which saw pretty much every sequencer get a major upgrade. But while this...

19th December 2016

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Gear of the Year 2016 – Best Hardware Instrument

What a year for hardware… again! There’s no doubting that the move for many studios is well and truly back to analogue, back to...

18th December 2016

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Gear of the Year 2016 – Best Eurorack Module

A brand new category - but one which has exploded in 2016, for an interesting variety of reasons. It's the best Eurorack module category... Highly...

17th December 2016

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Gear of the Year 2016 – Best Software Instrument/Sample Library

As seems to be the case every year, this was by far the most crowded category of our Gear Of The Year awards. That’s...

16th December 2016

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Gear of the Year 2016 – Best Accessory of 2016

Our Best Accessory award covers pretty much everything small, from headphones to studio gadgets, from books to sample collections. There were several varied and...

15th December 2016

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