M-Audio is sponsoring the Dean Guitar Contest where you can win lots of cool kit. In cooperation with M-Audio and the Dimebag Darrell estate, Dean is inviting all shredders to record and submit videos of their craziest chops. The video entries will be judged by online viewers and a panel of Dean’s most accomplished musicians—including Matt Heafy and Corey Beaulieu (Trivium), Vinnie Paul (Pantera), Eric Peterson (Testament) and Tom Maxwell (Hell Yeah).

The Coyote 1 guitar pedal is now available for order. It's an open source effects pedal that you can program yourself creating your very own unique sounds. I'd like to see some summer sounding tracks pumped out with this thing.