A total of 58 magazines from all over the world voted for the best products of 2005/2006 in more than 40 categories. The awards were presented to the winners at a special ceremony held at MusikMesse on March 30th, 2006. Here is a list of this year’s winners.
Bass Amp: Ampeg SVT-6PRO
Bass Cabinet: Ampeg SVT412HE
Electric Bass: Music Man SUB Sterling Bass
Bass Strings: Elixir Nanoweb
Bass Effects: Line 6 Bass PODxt Live
Drums: Tama Starclassic Bubinga
Cymbals: Zildjian K Custom hybrid
Drum Hardware: Sonor 600
Drumsticks: Vic Firth Tala Wands
Drumheads: Evans EC2
Electronic Drums: Roland Handsonic HPD10
Percussion Instruments: Meinl Conga Cajon
Electric Guitar: Paul Reed Smith 513 Rosewood
Acoustic Guitar: Taylor T5
Guitar Combo: Vox AC30CC
Guitar Top: Hughes & Kettner Trilogy
Acoustic Guitar Amp: AER Acousticube III
Guitar Effects (19″ or Floor): TC Electronics G-Systems
Pick-Ups: Seymour Duncan JB
Strings: D`Addario Phosphor Bronze
Synthesizer (Hardware): Access Virus TI
Stage Piano: Clavia Nord Stage
Keyboard Workstation: Korg OASYS
Software Instruments: Arturia Prophet V
Organ/Portable Keyboard: Hammond XK-3
Mixing Desk (Live): Midas Siena
Live Microphone: Sennheiser/Neumann SKM 5200 wireless
Club PA: JBL VRX900
Large-format PA-System: Meyer Sound MICA Line Array
Mixing Desk (Project Studio): Mackie Onyx
Mixing Desk (High End): Digidesign ICON
Studio Microphone: Rode NT-2A
Studio Monitor (Nearfield): Genelec 8050A
Recording Software: Digidesign Protools 7
Recording Hardware:M-Audio Project mix I/O
Recording Effects (Hardware/Software): NI Guitar Rig 2
Sampler: TASCAM Gigastudio
DJ-Tools (Hardware): Korg KAOSS Pad entrancer
DJ-Software: Ableton Live 5
Congratulations to all the winners!
