So many new pro audio and music products are released each year that it becomes difficult to make fair comparisons or put together a “Best Of” or “Top 25” list. How do you choose when presented with a new $10,000 single-channel analog compressor and a $79 distortion plug-in? In that spirit, please consider this our annual “Gear of the Year” list, where there’s something for every type of audio pro.

To put together the 2024 Gear of the Year selection, we asked longtime Mix…