107 magazines from all over the world got together to vote for the best products of 2006/2007 in more than 40 categories. The awards have been presented to the winners at a special mipa-Party/Awards-Ceremony held during Musikmesse / Prolight + Sound, March 29th, 2007.

More than 300 international representatives of manufacturers and distributors of musical instruments and audio equipment have joined for the 8th mipa Awards Show including guests from the USA, Canada, Japan, Brazil, South Africa, Russia, Poland, Great Britain, Italy, France, Greece, The Netherlands, Belgium, Luxemburg, Sweden, Denmark, Austria, Switzerland and Germany.

Best Innovative Product

• Fender VG Stratocaster
• Korg MR1/MR1000

Bass

Bass Amp

• Markbass Little Mark II

• Warwick CCL210

• Ampeg SVT-VR

Bass Cabinet

• Sadowsky SA210 2x10 cabinet

• Glockenklang 6

• Markbass Traveler 121H

E-Bass

• Fender 60th Anniversary American P + J Bass

• Music Man Stingray HH

• OLP Tony Levin

Drums

Acoustic Drums

• ddrum Diode Drums

• Sonor S-Classix Drums

• DW Classic Drums

Cymbals

• Meinl Byzance Jazz Cymbals

• Sabian New XS20 Cymbals

• Paiste Twenty Cymbals

Drum Microphone

• Audix DP-7 Drum Microphone Pack

• Audio-Technica ATM450 Microphone

• AKG C414 LTD Microphone

Drum Hardware

• Taye Metalworks Bassdrum Pedals

• Gibraltar Ultra-Adjust Hi-Hat

• Pearl 900 Series Hardware

Drumheads

• Remo Powersonic Bassdrum Heads

• Aquarian Super-2 Drumheads

• Attack Jeff Ocheltree Old School Drumheads

Drumsticks

• Vic Firth Signature Sticks

• Vater Stick Whip

• Regal Tip Fat Cat Brushes

E-Drums

• Yamaha DTXPRESS IV-SP

• Hart Dynamics E-Cymbals II

• Alesis Trigger/io

Percussion Instruments

• Meinl Bass Pedal Cajon

• Latin Percussion Jam Block/Guiro

• Pearl Travel Conga

Guitar

E-Guitar

• PRS Singlecut

• Fender Classic Player 50s Stratocaster

• Ibanez 20th Anniversary Steve Vai Jem

Acoustic Guitar

• Line6 Variax Acoustic 300 Nylon

• Taylor GS

• Gibson SJ-200 Koa

Guitar Combo

• Vox DA5

• Epiphone Valve Junior

• Marshall Vintage Modern 2266C

Guitar Top

• Hughes & Kettner Switchblade

• Marshall JVM410H h

• Mesa Boogie Roadster

Acoustic Guitar Amp

• Fender Acoustasonic

• Fishman Loudbox 100

• AER Acousticube 3

Guitar Effects (19" or Floor)

• DigiTech Brian May Red Sepcial Pedal

• Native Instrument Guitar Rig 2

• Line6 ToneCore

Pick-Ups

• Seymour Duncan SPH90-1PhatCat

• Gibson Burstbucker

• L.R. Baggs M1 Active

Guitar Strings

• D' Addario EXP

• Elixir Nanoweb AntiRust

• Dunlop Zakk Wylde

Keyboards

Synthesizer (Hardware)

• Roland V-Synth XT

• Korg Radias

• Virus TI

Stage Piano

• Clavia Nord Stage

• Kawai MP8

• Rhodes Piano (the new)

Keyboard Workstation

• Korg M3

• Yamaha Motif XS

• Roland Fantom-X

Software Instruments

• Native Instruments Massive

• Arturia Jupiter-8 V

• Cakewalk Rapture

Organ/Portable Keyboard

• Clavia Nord C1

• Yamaha Tyros 2

• Korg Pa800

Sampler

• Native Instruments Kontakt II

• E-MU Emulator X 2

• IK Multimedia Sample Tank XL 2.0

Sound Libraries

• Vienna Symphonic Library - Symphonic Cube

• Ueberschall The Voice 1 & 2 Choral Phrase Libraries

• Steinberg HALion Orchestra

Pro Audio

Portable Sound

• HK Audio Contour Series

• Funktion One Resolution 2

• JBL VRX 928

Large Format PA-System

• Meyer Sound M'elodie

• d&b J Series

• Adamson Y-Axis

Live Microphone

• Sennheiser e900 Serie

• AT2010 - Audio-Technica

• Shure Performance Gear Wireless

Mixing Desk (High End)

• Digidesign Icon D-Command

• Neve 88D

• Studer Vista

Mixing Desk (Live)

• Midas XL-8

• Soundcraft Vi6

• Yamaha M7CL

Mixing Desk (Project Studio)

• M-Audio NRV-10

• Mackie VLZ3-Serie

• Alesis Multimix i6 FireWire

Studio

Studio Microphone

• Neumann TLM49

• beyerdynamic MC840

• Rode Classic II

Studio Monitor (Nearfield)

• JBL LSR4326P

• Adam A7

• Genelec 8200 Series

Recording Software

• Apple Logic Pro 7.3

• Steinberg Cubase4

• Digidesign Protools HD

Recording Hardware

• TC Electronic Konnekt24

• MOTU Ultralite

• Focusrite LiquidMix

Recording Effects

• SSL Duende

• Celemony Melodyne 3

• TC Helicon VoicePro

Groove-Gear

Groove Box

• Akai MPC2500

• Roland MV-8800 Production Studio

• Radikal Technologies Spectralis

DJ-Software/DJ-Tools

• M-Audio Torq

• Korg KAOSS Pad 3

• Native Instruments Audio 8 DJ