Following the release of the Satchurator™ analog distortion and Time Machine™ delay  pedals, VOX expands the VOX & Joe Satriani guitar effects line with the introduction of the Big Bad Wah™ dual wah pedal. These pedals are part of an ongoing partnership between VOX and the legendary guitarist. Satriani has been an active part of the R&D team, pouring his years of expertise into the pedals’ look, feel and sound.

Peavey has added a new fixed-bridge model to its award-winning HP™ Special Series guitar line. The new Peavey HP Special Stoptail electric guitar, originally offered as a custom upgrade, will now be available as a stock model in the company’s expanding guitar line.

Peavey and Joe Satriani have collaborated to create the all-new Peavey JSX® 50 guitar amplifier head, the latest project in the Peavey JSX Series of signature amplifiers and enclosures designed with the guitar legend.

BOSS tuners are renowned the world over for their quality and reliability. In this spirit, Roland Corporation and BOSS are proud to debut a new full line of tuners for every price range and level of musician with the TU-1000, TU-12EX, TU-12BW, and TU-88 digital tuners.

NovaDrive is TC Electronic's new dual engine, digitally controllable, true bypass overdrive/distortion pedal, that features analogue drive circuit ported from the acclaimed Nova System. Its classic old school sound ensures chills down your spine and a wide grin at every riff, lick and face-melter, but digital control options that enables you to integrate NovaDrive into your set-up and tailor the sound with total precision, resulting in more control, resulting in more confidence, and ultimately resulting in a better performance.

Building on the popular ME-50, the ME-70 is a floor-based processor that offers the compact design and simplicity of a stompbox. With dedicated knobs for each section, a new, high-quality COSM® engine derived from the GT-10, and added EZ Tone and Phrase Loop features, the ME-70 is the ultimate easy-to-use floorboard powerhouse.

Children of Bodom’s Alexi Laiho, ranked as one of the world’s best guitarists, has four new Signature Series models introduced at NAMM 2009 from ESP and LTD. The ESP Alexi-Blacky, ESP Alexi-Scythe, LTD Alexi-600-Blacky, and LTD Alexi-600-Scythe will be available from ESP’s network of dealers and international distributors. Since 2003, Laiho has worked with ESP on all of his signature model guitars.

LTD, a division of ESP Guitars, has introduced ten new basses to their line at the Winter NAMM show. All of the new bass models are updates that replace existing models in the LTD line, using innovative new manufacturing sources for improved quality and feature sets.

The legendary guitarists of Metallica, Kirk Hammett and James Hetfield, have worked with ESP Guitars to create their newest additions to the ESP and LTD Signature Series. The ESP KH-2 Ouija and LTD KH-Ouija are the latest models from Hammett, while the new James Hetfield model is the ESP Iron Cross.