Devi Ever is tired of building pedal circuits and having to put every one in its own enclosure. So she has just announced her new cartridge based effects system, the Effector 13 Console II. The concept is basically like a gaming console, it even looks like the old Atari 2600 system, in that you buy the console, and the different effects plug into it like game cartridges. The console accepts 2 cartridges at a time and the way they fit into the console allows for a label that shows what each knob does when that cartridge is installed.
Several FX pedal makers have already commited to making cartridges for the system. These include Dwarfcraft, Fuzz Hugger, Infanem, Malekko, and Mellowtone. Devi says she is already planning on expanding the system with things like adapters so that DIY pedal builders can plug in their own designs. As well as making some kind of modular system for stacking different effects components.
It will be interesting to see if this idea takes off. It could certainly make experimenting with effects pedals easier and a bit cheaper too. The console will sell for $135 and the first 2 Devi Ever cartridges, the Punch Love and Soda Meiser will sell for $50 each.
Epiphone has two really interesting guitars they are about to release. First is a reissue of the Nighthawk. Epiphone had a Nighthawk model back in the 90’s for a short time which was based on the Gibson model of the same name. It has a mahogany body, AAA flame maple veneer top and a 25.5″ scale. The most unique thing about it is the 3 pickups it has. A NHR mini-humbucker neck, center NSX single coil and a alant NHT humbucker in the bridge. Price should be $399. Here’s a demo from Epiphone showing all the possible tones which includes push pull coil splitting on the two humbuckers.
Up next is the Worn 1966 Wilshire with a redesigned tremotone. It’s got a mahogany body, mahogany neck with a 24.75″ scale, and two mini-humbuckers. I’ve always thought those old tremotone equipped Wilshires had the coolest looking trem systems going. Not sure how well they work, but these are supposed to be “redesigned”. Street pice is $449
Here’s an audio interface for the iPhone/iPad, which allows it to be put in the signal chain of a guitar, mic, synth…whatever. It’s made by New Signal Process, and is in the form of a stompbox and handles all the impedance matching necessary to send signals into, then out of the iPhone/iPad.
For guitarists, this means the ability to have a limitless supply of virtual and emulated effects that you can use for performances instead of just in the studio or sitting at a computer. It’s true bypass, and though the photo shows the standard version with a toggle switch, they will make them with a standard 3PDT switch as well if you ask. It costs a reasonable $115 and can be bought at the NSP site.
They don’t mention the iPhone/iPad version of Amplitude on the site , but it seems like it should work. They do say that latency can be an issue, and varies from app to app.
A lot of the samples on the site are using synths and vocals, but theres a few with guitar.
Here’s an audio sample running a guitar through the Moog Filtaron app.
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I just came across a new online tab player and editor at tabnplay.com. It’s pretty slick and has a lot of useful features.
One of the coolest, most useful features is that you can copy and paste tab from any site. You don’t even have to worry about non-tab portions getting mixed in as tabnplay filters it all out. This feature worked well when I tried it. I opened a tab on ultimate guitar, hit command-A to select all, even the ads, and pasted into tabnplay with only the tab pasting in.
You can set loop points and tempo so you can slow down difficult sections and repeat them till you get it right. You can also edit tab or create your own tab by playing chords with your computer keyboard. Or by placing notes on the tabnplay virtual guitar to play back and turn into tab.
They say that they are are currently in beta and are looking for suggestions to improve the player. Here’s the overview video:
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