Is that a rig in your pocket? If it is, then it must be Guitar Rig Mobile, Native Instruments’ newest, smallest and most affordable incarnation of its ubiquitous Guitar Rig software/hardware package. No larger than a cigarette pack, Guitar Rig Mobile combines Guitar Rig LE software with a full-featured USB 2.0 audio interface to let you plug in and play anywhere you go.

The Italian word tonare means “to thunder,” while angelus is Latin for, of course, “angelic.” Combine them, and you get a good idea what these new acoustics from PRS Guitars sound like.

Planet Waves’ new headstock tuner clips onto any stringed instrument’s headstock or bridge and determines pitch from vibrations. Its super-accurate tuning software is coupled with an ultra-sensitive piezo sensor system that has increased vibration sensitivity and more accurate note registration. And by eliminating the interference of ambient room noise, the headstock tuner ensures pitch information is accurate.

With The Edge and Trent Reznor plugging into his Death by Audio effect pedals, and fans clamoring for his hot new band, A Place to Bury Strangers, guitarist/pedal designer Oliver Ackermann has become a force to be reckoned with.