Silvertone Reissues the Jupiter & 1449
Summer NAMM started yesterday, and here’s the first thing that caught my eye. Although these reissues are not going to capture all the tones and charm of the originals, I think they are interesting guitars in their own right. I have a reissue of the Harmony version of this guitar. It’s rather different then the […]
Fishman’s New “TriplePlay” Wireless Midi Controller
Fishman, mostly known for their acoustic guitar pickup systems, just announced the release of their new guitar midi controller, the “TriplePlay”. Unabashedly calling it “the best Midi guitar controller the world has ever seen”. It uses a very thin hexophonic pickup that easily mounts to the guitar with no permanent modifications, and uses a wireless […]
Pro Guitar Shop Introduces “Demo It Live”
Pro Guitar Shop seems to be one of the webs more visible online guitar gear retailers. With a seemingly endless stream of contests, video demos and recently, a new riff of the day, taught by the popular Andy. Their latest marketing blitz is something they are calling “Demo It Live”. It’s essentially just a web […]
New Seymour Duncan Pickup – “Whole Lotta Humbucker”
Sounds pretty nice, but pickups interact with the other elements of your signal chain. Hard to tell how good they are till they’re in your guitar. But these seem like they’d be worth a try. I recently switched the Alnico 5 magnet in my burstbucker pro humbucker which is in my Les Paul, and replaced […]
Boss Introduces 3 New Pedals with “Multi-Dimensional Processing”
Boss has just released 3 new pedals to their incredibly popular line of compact effects. All three incorporate a custom DSP(Digital Signal Processing) chip that has, what their marketing team decided to call “Multi-Dimensional Processing”, or “MDP” for short. Supposedly this new technology somehow senses the incoming guitar signal and adjusts the output of the […]